Resolution, The Place’s annual festival for new choreography, returns in 2024 to kick off the year with a bang. This is the first year since the pandemic that Resolution festival returns to its usual programming […]
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Q&A with Jean Abreu and Naishi Wang
How can the body be used as a instrument to say things that go unsaid? This is one of the many questions that Jean Abreu and Naishi Wang’s new work Deciphers asks. Embarking on its […]
Eve Stainton talks ‘Impact Driver’, art and welding
Words by Katie Hagan. I’m speaking to artist Eve Stainton just after they have finished an intense two-week period of cracking open their new work Impact Driver, which comes to the ICA this week. On […]
What we talk about when we talk about dance
Words by Elspeth Wilson. Elspeth took part in our Guest Writers development programme, supported by Arts Council England. There is a level of exhaustion that my body experiences where I know that the only movement […]
Misery and decay: Porca Miseria by Trajal Harrell
Words by angel dust. It’s been a few weeks since I witnessed Trajal Harrell’s Porca Miseria at the Barbican Theatre and the feeling of awe is still very much present in my body. The evening […]
TOM by BULLYACHE a synth-pop drizzled exploration of queerness
Words by Pooja Sivaraman. Pooja is part of our Guest Writers development programme supported by Arts Council England. TOM by BULLYACHE performed at The Yard is an exploding, colourful, synth-pop drizzled exploration of queerness and […]
A conversation with Northern Rascals
Words by Sophie Thomas. Sophie is part of our Guest Writers development programme, supported by Arts Council England. An evening witnessing a Northern Rascals production feels like peeping through a keyhole into someone else’s world. […]
Impermanence’s Venus has a unique story to tell
Words by Sophie Chinner. A quadruple bill of new work presented by Impermanence, a company I know best for bringing contemporary dance to stages in the South West. Tonight however, I watched them at Wiltons […]
Yishun is Burning by Choy Ka Fai | review
It’s not everyday you watch a performance that changes your perception of your country, but Yishun is Burning by Berlin-based Singaporean artist Choy Ka Fai did exactly that.
Amelia Nommensen’s Upwelling makes the ocean matter
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. I too grew up with the ocean – weekends of sweet treats melting off our mouths while a salty sting rose up our ankles. But throughout my childhood I learned that […]