Queer East Festival returns for its fifth year with a new cross-disciplinary arts programme across London from 17th-28th April. Showcasing boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ visual arts and performance from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities, the festival explores notions […]
Tag: performance
Taylor Han and Simone Seales on ‘With Catastrophic Consequences’ | interview
Words by Hannah Draper. Both Glasgow based artists, Taylor Han and Simone Seales’ show With Catastrophic Consequences is performance which invites the audience into a space of collective warmth, using improvisation and storytelling, or story […]
Dance in the time of war | Diana Olifirova’s film Intrance
Dance may be an ephemeral, fleeting art form, but its moments can be documented and remembered as being representative or symbolic of a very specific period of time. For dancer, director and cinematographer Diana Olifirova, […]
Saburo Teshigawara’s Tristan and Isolde, Coronet Theatre | Review
Words by Paula Riofrio The lighting sculpts the stage as it is revealed before our eyes. The dancers become a sensuous spell that tells of the time of Tristan and Isolde. Tristan lies across a […]
Courtney McCarthy, Chandenie Gobardhan & Matthew Harding at Resolution Festival 2022 | Review
Words by Giada Palmisano. Watched on 20 May at Resolution 2022, The Place. Youth, naivety, and simplicity encompass the world behind Courtney McCarthy’s Sketch. Two dancers dressed in pure white smile at each other with […]
We touch, we dance | Interview with Second Hand Dance
Words by Hannah Draper. Young children form the landscape and set for We Touch, We Play, We Dance, a piece made for early years audiences by disabled-led dance company, Second Hand Dance which I saw […]
Matthias Sperling on No-How Generator & choreography – interview
Words by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making art happen with producer Johanna Taylor | Interview
By Inês Carvalho. A creative process is much more than what we see on stage. Behind the scenes, there is adriving force that organises, plans, promotes and manages every single step of the journey. What […]