Words by Stella Rousham. Dream Ritual performed at The Coronet, Notting Hill 03/07/19 Dream Ritual operates in many liminal spaces; the hazy chasm between waking and sleeping, the conscious and subconscious, virtual and physical, art […]
Build with the new & break from the old – Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Fluid Boundaries
Words by Katie Hagan The value of interdisciplinary, site-specific, community-led dance performances can never be stressed enough. For some they provide an escape, opening-up a space for people to see it in ways never done […]
Dance without borders : in conversation with Nicoletta Key
We sat down with fusion-ista choreographer and mover, Nicoletta Key Bonanni, to discuss her practice, her company Movement Deco‘, cross-cultural communication, movement appropriation and the intimate sources of inspiration essential to her growth as an […]
the Place LCDS Postgraduate Choreography 2019 – REVIEW
Words By Izzy Rogers, 23/05/19 Tonight brings the work of three postgraduate choreographers from London Contemporary Dance School: fresh talents making dance about what preoccupies them, minus the commercial pressures of delivering a ‘show’. The […]
Dance to suppress oppression: Aakash Odedra Company #JeSuis review
21/05/19 Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury In a digital age where information can be accessed anywhere, anytime, it is bizarre that some stories escape documentation. Among posing many questions, Aakash Odedra Company’s award-winning #JeSuis interrogates the prejudice […]
Rambert / McGregor / Motin / Shechter – review
Words by Izzy Rogers. At 2.30pm on a Thursday, thick blue-grey smoke billows into the seating at Sadler’s Wells. The auditorium is reverberating with bass notes. This is the coolest contemporary dance has ever been. […]
In conversation with IRIE! dance theatre
IRIE! dance theatre is the first dance organisation in Europe to create a full-time, three year degree that puts African and Caribbean dance at the centre of dance education. You can re-read that statement a […]
Keira Martin – Wild Card: Where Ye From – Lilian Bayliss Theatre – review
Instead of asking where someone is from, isn’t it more interesting to ask them to tell us their story? Keira Martin’s sensitively curated Where Ye From is a lesson in how contemporary dance theatre removes […]
Shakespeare just got real, ‘Juliet & Romeo’ review – Lost Dog Co.
Words by Katie Hagan. 03/05/19 – Brook Theatre, Chatham. As its title suggests, Lost Dog’s Juliet & Romeo is an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Except this isn’t a play about naive star-crossed lovers, […]
Skilful quartet reinvents misogynist world of the 20th century anti-hero – ‘Baal’ Impermanence
Words by Sophie Catherine Chinner. From the company that produced SEXBOX, Da-Da-Darling and the 50-minute arthouse film The Ballet of the Nations, Bristol based dance company Impermanence tackle an innovative, new adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht […]