Words by Bengi-Sue Şirin. It is always a treat to learn not only a new word, but a new concept. And I did just that at Sadler’s Wells watching Paco Peña’s Solera. The word […]
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dance art journal launches GoFundMe campaign
Exeunt, A Younger Theatre… many independent theatre magazines are closing because they can’t pay their writers or work sustainably. It’s why we are launching this Crowdfunder campaign, to raise £2,000 to support our Arts Council […]
Juxtaposing absurdity and poetry in Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou | Review
Words by Giordana Patumi. An aseptic white room, the flickering light of a neon sign and a door. This is how Dimitris Papaioannou begins a journey between antiquity and modernity, permanence, and transience, in search […]
Matthias Sperling on ‘No-How Generator’ & choreography – interview
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş A No-How Generator is a habitat for sustaining generative states of not-knowing ~ Matthias Sperling Under the surface of our feet, we predict earthquakes…we ache from marathons…we remember the rain. Inside […]
STIMMING towards a neurodivergent dance practice | Interview with Susanna Dye
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 […]
Queen of Shade | review
Words by Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş. 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 Riofrío. 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 […]
Feeling Thing by Jo Bannon / Candoco Dance Company | film preview
Feeling Thing is a new film by multi-disciplinary artist Jo Bannon and co-produced by Candoco Dance Company. The film invites us to pay attention to the objects around us and experience them as the dancing, […]
On beauty: ‘Graces’ by Silvia Gribaudi | review
Words by Giordana Patumi. On Thursday, December 30th at Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia a wide laugh filled the seats of the theatres while on stage there was ‘Graces’ by Silvia Gribaudi. Silvia Gribaudi, an artist […]
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