Words by Bengi-Sue Şirin It is a bright, crisp Saturday morning when I go to visit London Children’s Ballet. Lovely weather for an exciting day – exactly the kind of morning that would thrill Anne […]
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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 […]
Activism through movement: Interview with Ana Clara Guerra Marques (Angola Contemporary Dance Company)
The body has tremendous power in translating reality – no matter how complex it might be. In Angola, translating reality through movement is a powerful act of activism – says Ana Clara Guerra Marques, a pioneer in contemporary dance in this country. We chatted about her journey with CDC Angola, and the role of dance in analysing, questioning and – most importantly – demanding social change.
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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