Words by Sophie Chinner. The start of August. What would be the month that marks the middle of an ordinary summer, now, an extraordinary time for us all. But as restaurants, shops and pubs trickle […]
MAKING ART IN POLAND: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILIP KIJOWSKI
Words by Katie Hagan. We’re all praying for the LGBTQ+ community in Poland. When I caught up with performance artist Filip Kijowski a few months ago the severity of what’s now happened was boiling beneath […]
ICEBERG WIG IV – REVIEW
Words by Katie Hagan. EAZ by Zoe Katsilerou and Eilon Morris with Andrew Morrish Latency. Defined as something embryonic, a becoming on the verge of something. Latency the ‘delay before a transfer of data begins following […]
Poetic Choreography by Zoe Katsilerou – reflection
Words by Ines Carvalho. On the 25th and 26th of July ICEBERG — an international group of professional dancers, musicians and theatre practitioners dedicated to improvisation — organised WIG IV (Weekend Improvisation Glasgow), an online improvisation weekend full of […]
a future for independent dance
A conversation with Josh Slater. Words Ines Carvalho. There are many concerns right now about what the future will bring after the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, we spoke to independent artists about those concerns and how they are […]
OUR ANTI-RACISM MANIFESTO
Written by the DAJ team. This manifesto has been made to sustain the essential discourses about racism in the dance industry. It comes from a need for us, dance art journal, to support the Black […]
Valerie Ebuwa talks ‘Body Data’, quarantine & racism
Words by Stella Rousham. ‘The inspiration is my life, I guess. A combination of wanting to fight for dancers, wanting to fight for artists and wanting people to understand how racism works.’ Since graduating with […]
Autin Dance Theatre talks ‘A Posi+ive Life’
Words by Katie Hagan ‘I thought 2020 was going to be it!’ seems to be a recurring message I’m hearing from a few early-to-mid choreographers right now, who were on the precipice of something significant […]
Discussing ‘The Conversation’ with Lanre Malaolu
Words by Katie Hagan. When I asked the award-winning director and choreographer Lanre Malaolu about where his movement story originated from, I didn’t know what I thought I’d get in reply. Sometimes, actually in most […]
An interview with Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria is an all-female dance collective consisting of 12 members based across the globe. On the 17th May our writer Angelos was joined by seven of them for a virtual hang out to discuss their […]