Candoco Dance Company, Corali, People Dancing, Stopgap Dance Company and TIN Arts (collectively known as The Working Group) are urging the dance sector to commit to change based on outcomes from new research – published in full today […]
The Joystick and The Reins by Eve Stainton comes to London
Choreographer and artist Eve Stainton will perform their new solo work The Joystick and The Reins as part of Bold Tendencies’ 2025 Live Events programme. A slow-motion interrogation and artist’s reconstruction, the show is inspired […]
Gary Clarke’s arresting Detention
Words by Francesca Matthys. Inspired, blown away and moved are just a handful of emotions I am left with after watching Gary Clarke Company’s Detention. In the post performance discussion, Gary Clarke shares that this […]
DOS x METAMAN: A Conversation in Movement and Modular Sound
Words by Isabela Palancean. Marking my first time visiting the birthplace of drama and feta cheese (according to a giant LIDL advert inside the city’s airport), I attended KRAMA Festival – a cross-disciplinary platform connecting […]
Thick & Tight’s Natural Behaviour
Words by Stella Rousham. “I was often told that my dancing wasn’t masculine enough.” Daniel Hay-Gordon’s pre-recorded reflections seep out to the audience as he takes centre stage wearing what he describes as rehearsal clothes: […]
What is anti-ableism?
Words by Saskia Horton. This article is part of our REWRITE series with Chisenhale Dance Space’s Artist Community. It’s so hard to understand systemically or literally what anti-ableism is in the dance world (and beyond) […]
Sam Burkett’s debut GOSS
Words by Lizzy Tan. There’s no easy way to describe GOSS – and that is its whimsy. Contemporary dancer and comedy improviser Sam Burkett’s debut show at Pleasance Futures Festival 2025, Pleasance Theatre defies categorisation, […]
MOSH at Dublin Dance Festival
Words by Eoin Fenton. Ahead of a head-spinning tour across Ireland that opens as the closing show of the Dublin Dance Festival, I caught up with the team behind the electrifying dance theatre work MOSH, […]
Exploring contemporary dance in Bulgaria: One Dance Festival
By Inês Carvalho. Founded in 2008, One Dance Festival in Plovdiv has grown into a vital platform for contemporary dance in Bulgaria and across the Balkans. With an independent team united by the will of […]
Interview with Scratch Renaissance partner Emergency Chorus
From May 2025 to July 2026, Chisenhale Dance Space (CDS) will run Scratch Renaissance, a bold programme responding directly to the urgent need for artists to test ideas, take risks and share works-in-progress in a […]