Founded in 2022 by Isabelle Long and Ashley Lim, Transcendance offers inclusive dance workshops to transcend the narrative of what dance is. Recognising that dance is a movement, is a language, Transcendance sees and teaches […]
Tag: dance reviews
Radical watching, Next Choreography | Part 3
Words by Francesca Matthys. I had the pleasure of attending the Next Choreography Festival at Siobhan Davies Studios a couple of Saturdays ago. Joined by some of the DAJ gang, it felt like a treasure […]
Reune x Sadler’s Wells
Words by India Berry. Reune – an evening of live performance and film produced by Emma Farnell-Watson and Joshua James Smith – was a night that brought a collective of dance performances and short films […]
Dancing with the Ancestors: Exótica by Amanda Piña/nadaproductions
Words by Giulia Casalini. In this creative writing text, I review the performance of Chilean/Mexican/Austrian artist Amanda Piña, which premiered in June 2023 at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. My review is based on experiencing the performance […]
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 […]
Wonderland in Alice by CTC Dance Company
Words by Saskia Horton. Saskia took part in our Guest Writers programme, a writers development programme supported by Arts Council England. Never have I seen a take on this much-beloved classic that is so ground-breaking […]
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.
Nederlands Dans Theater is dance in extremis | review
Words by Bengi-Sue Sirin. Wednesday 19th April was a very exciting night for me. I have put Nederlands Dans Theater on a pedestal ever since I discovered them on YouTube as a dance-mad teenager. Gods […]