Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile the dance captivates, the argument it seeks to make never entirely lands. Shobana Jeyasingh’s We Caliban, now playing at Sadler’s Wells East, arrives with a bold proposition: to revisit Shakespeare’s The Tempest through a postcolonial lens,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesChoreographed by Boy Blue co-artistic director Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, twenty-one dancers aged 18-25 have been working on a new piece of Hip-Hop dance theatre, created alongside the Roundhouse’s Music Production and Poetry collectives. Project rEVOLUTION premieres at…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe Caliban, the latest work from one of the UK’s most distinctive choreographers Shobana Jeyasingh, is a danced reimagining of Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest through the eyes of Prospero’s ‘monster’.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Alexandrina Hemsley about her new show, Many Lifetimes, at Sadlers Wells.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a certain might in music, the way it fills the space, that elusive moment of resonance in a room of strangers. As part of the Memory Unwrapped series at King’s Place, Solem Quartet shows us music in all its might. T
Reading Time: 2 minutesfinely controlled Push and Pull by Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung is a piece intends to explore resilience and connection through an encounter between two dancers, Lee Kuan-ling and Lu Ying-chieh, inspired by the principles of Tai Chi and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Bloom is a bold, playful and deeply feminine solo performance that blends theatre, dance and storytelling. At its heart, it asks a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to bloom again after the wind has forced you shut?
Reading Time: 2 minutesJulia Lupașcu presents a work that confronts mortality with striking choreographic and theatrical intelligence. As part of Resolution 26 at The Place, Romanian choreographer Julia Lupașcu presented a work that confronted mortality with striking theatrical intelligence. Drawing…
Reading Time: 2 minutesDreamscape arrives with the weight of real history and the urgency of lived experience. Blending hip-hop aesthetics with documentary truth, the production refuses the comfort of distance, instead pulling the audience into an intimate, unsettling reckoning with a life cut short and the systems that enabled it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA bold and original double-bill dance performance from Manchester’s award-winning Company Chameleon, Obscura explores both the light and darkness that can be found in the hidden corners of self and society.