Category contemporary

REVIEW: It’s My Birthday!

Reading Time: 2 minutesIT’S MY BIRTHDAY!, choreographed by Julian Nichols and performed by Naomi Chockler, Chieh-Hann Chang, Elisa Chou, Grace Malone, and Paxton Ricketts is a captivating contemporary dance-theatre work exploring isolation, the struggle for visibility in groups and feeling left out while the party’s all for you.

REVIEW: We Caliban

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,…

REVIEW: Dreamscape

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.