Words by angel dust. Stimming (definition): nounrepetitive actions or movements displayed by neurodivergent people and people with developmental disorders when they are over/ under-stimulated emotionally, or by sensory input from their environment. Recently I was […]
Tag: dance interviews
Queen of Shade | review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. Recently I’ve thought about the peace of forgetting…in pieces, a canvased memory. It’s coincidental that I encounter this film now, as I’ve been considering silhouette in dance practice as a way […]
Lucinda Childs Dance, a hypnotic utopia | Review
Words by Paula Catalina Riofrio. Performed by Lyon Opera Ballet at Sadler’s Wells as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival. … we are gonna work together, we are gonna have […]
Listening to trauma | ‘Them’ by Body Politic | Review
Words by Maria Elena Ricci [Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence] It is a heavy reality to know that 1 in 4 women in the UK will experience sexual violence at some point in their lives. Roughly […]
Creating an equitable dance industry – Interview with Dance Freelance Taskforce
The pandemic and all the activism it enkindled certainly forced many moments to their heady crises, not least the need for better support for freelancers. Given the precarity of being freelance during multiple nationwide lockdowns, […]
The dancing flags of ARA! ARA! by Panzetti and Ticconi | Review
Words by Giordana Patumi. Review of ARA! ARA! choreographed and performed by Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi at Teatro Morlacchi of Perugia. Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, based in Berlin and Torino, have been working […]
DAJ features WirrWarr, a dance film on loss & separation
Words by Katie Hagan. As well as writing reviews and conducting interviews at dance art journal, we feature dance films directed and produced by independent artists. We are pleased to announce that this month, we […]
Trinity Laban Fulbright Will Byram: “I’m committed to creating more art in the American South” | interview
Words by Katie Hagan. “I think artists have all had some weird reckoning over the past year” contemplates dancer and Trinity Laban Fulbright Will Byram as we speak one afternoon. “We look at the world […]
Moving with Pina: a dance-lecture by Cristiana Morganti| review
Words by Giordana Patumi. Watched at Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia, Italy November 21, 2021. “Pina Bausch used dance to make up for her lack of familiarity with words,” introduces Cristiana Morganti, soloist with Bausch’s company Tanztheater […]
Finding a voice in vulnerability | Interview with Jani Toivola
DAJ chats with Jani Toivola about his journey and how he found in vulnerability the strength to find his way – as an artist and as a person.