Words by Adam Moore. Shoryuuuuu-ken!!! The year is 1996 and Dark Ryu is gearing up to obliterate me in an unstoppable, mathematical equation that only the PlayStation really understands. All I can do is watch the […]
Thoughts on Coppelia, The Royal Ballet
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. As much as I love contemporary dance, I hold a special place in my heart for classical ballet. And at this time of year, the big companies pull out all the […]
Ali Curtis-Jones ‘Drumstick’ a living archive of Laban’s work – review
Words by Katie Hagan. Performed at Trinity Laban. A culmination of years’ research on Rudolf Laban, notation and choreology, Ali Curtis-Jones’ Drumstick performed by her company of lithe dancers, Summit Dance Theatre, is a technical […]
Dimitris Papaioannou’s The Great Tamer a wild hybrid – review
Words by Giordana Patumi. Last night at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Dimitris Papaioannou’s The Great Tamer made its New York debut. The piece, produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre of Athens, premiered in […]
Joseph Toonga’s Born to Manifest empowers and awakens’ – review
Words by Katie Hagan. I read a quotation somewhere which said the danger with stereotypes is that they assume a whole story, when in truth they are insubstantial and ridden with bias. Just Us Dance […]
Bacchae Prelude To A Purge far from purification – review
Words by Giordana Patumi. Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge makes its US premiere in BAM Artistic Director David Binder’s first Next Wave season. Winner of the Venice Biennale Silver Lion for Dance in 2018, Marlene […]
In conversation with Peeping Tom
Words by Giordana Patumi. I had the opportunity to interview the two directors and choreographers of the Belgian dance theatre collective Peeping Tom, who will make their US and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) debut […]
It’s all about Cunningham in Rambert’s Event – review
Words by Izzy Rogers I hold a strong dislike of the choreography of world-renowned dance master Merce Cunningham. I had forgotten this before Rambert opened the first night of their Cunningham Centennial at Sadler’s Wells. […]
‘1 Click Away’ Greta Gauhe + ‘Meniscus’ Ghost and John – review
Words by Katie Hagan. In hard, lamentable times nothing speaks what cannot be spoken like immersive art with an affective concept. We’re existing in a world where senseless amounts of waste is clogging up our […]
A double perspective on Shobana Jeyasingh’s Staging Schiele
Perspective I: Katie Hagan Where would art be without its tragic figures who are at the unenviable helm of despair, destruction, vexation and woe? Definitely filling the stereotype of tortured artist, it is no wonder […]