Born in Poland in 1985 and based in the UK since 2007, interdisciplinary artist and performer Kamila CK came to dance and the wider field of art as a mature artist in her thirties. Defying […]
Darcy Wallace’s Mothertongue
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. There is no rest under burden, there is no breath except inside the moment that never ends… Framed by bricks in the looks of a run-down tube station, a dancer snaps […]
Yewande 103’s meditative Many Lifetimes
Words by Pagan Hunt. Performed at Dance City. Yewande 103’s Many Lifetimes felt to me like just that; a series of unfolding histories. Set to the incredible live music of Bianca Wilson and Femi Oriogun-Williams beneath a glowing canopy, Alexandrina Yewande […]
Wolf-cries and rave: a reflection on FEAR
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrio. In bocca al lupo! answered one of the participants when I asked her how to say good luck in her mother tongue. In bocca al lupo (its English translation is […]
Three artists to present at Luxembourg Showcase
The first official Luxembourg Showcase of dance will take place at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, bringing together three extraordinary movement artists: Simone Mousset, Jill Crovisier and Giovanni Zazzera. The Luxembourg Showcase comes to Edinburgh courtesy […]
Birthday Fish is clever & surreal
Words by Isabela Palancean. ‘To drink like a fish’ takes on a new, surreal dimension in Birthday Fish, a physical theatre piece co-authored and performed by Stephanie Burrell and Erin Hughes. What starts off as […]
Transforming the dance industry’s future | LCDS graduation show
Words by Stella Rousham. Graduation shows come with a great pressure of compressing three years of learning into a single, polished performance, all stamped with a label of approval from an acclaimed dance company or […]
Sunhi Willa Keller presents Kaja!
Taking place from 26-27 July at Arts on Site, Kaja! will be an evening of storytelling, kimchi-making, dance, and theater. Sunhi Willa Keller’s playful, provocative, and whimsical choreography is an interweaving of traditional Korean dance […]
Here & Now presents Edinburgh Fringe programme
Here & Now presents an exciting, intriguing and thought-provoking programme of work created in England, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. Continuing the work of Horizon by delivering a showcase of international-quality, tour-ready performance, Here […]
Tracing lineage in Roots to Rise by Nandita Shankardass
Words by Francesca Matthys. The collective of dancers made up of Anjana Bala, Vidya Patel and Tulani Kayani-Skeef in Nandita Shankardass’s Roots to Rise are like beautiful magenta, pink and purple flowers that appear between […]