REVIEW: The Machine of Horizontal Dreams
Reading Time: 3 minutesA vision that is living, breathing, and breathtaking in its execution, while
critiquing contemporary social structures and gazing toward a horizontal future
Category contemporary
REVIEW: Bogotá at Sadler’s Wells
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Gritty and Chaotic Retelling of Colombia’s History. Kicking off the festivities of London’s Dance Umbrella Festival 2025 is a work from across the Atlantic. Bogotá, by Andrea Peña, promises to be a theatrical deep-dive into the…
REVIEW: A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn experimental exploration of the trauma that bonds us, and the family that holds us
REVIEW: RAMBERT X (LA)HORDE
Reading Time: 3 minutesBring Your Own is gritty, sensual, and fiercely real. Will you dive into the chaos or shy away? Will you feel everything, and maybe nothing, all at once?
In this epic collaboration with (LA)HORDE, Rambert dancers bring their full selves to the French company's work. The Lowry
REVIEW: Emerald Storm
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike a tiny pendant on a necklace, the Emerald Theatre is the perfect venue for such a jewel of a show. Emerald Storm comes from successful performer-producer Adam Garcia, blending tapdance with Irish dance into a supper club party almost fit for the modern era.
REVIEW: The Joystick and The Reins
Reading Time: 2 minutesEve Stainton’s unhurried study of surveillance and suppression is brutally hypnotic. The Joystick and The Reins is a new, mostly solo work from Mancunian performance artist Eve Stainton premiering at Bold Tendencies in Peckham. The arts centre’s…
REVIEW: BECAUSE YOU NEVER ASKED
Reading Time: 2 minutesDance company We All Fall Down’s latest piece Because You Never Asked powerfully preserves a Holocaust survivor’s memories and relationship with her grandson through movement. Capturing the stories of the last remaining Holocaust survivors is a challenge…
REVIEW: VOYEUR / SAMBA AND LOVE
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis dance piece from São José dos Campos Dance Company was a highlight of my 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. It’s difficult to imagine a universe in which this piece and its brilliant company do not get picked up by the end of this run.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Mish Weaver
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Mish, the mastermind behind Waiting Song at Certain Blacks Ensemble Festival 26 and 27 July in Docklands. Waiting Song is a lyrical duet performed mid-air – how did the idea of blending trapeze with…
REVIEW: Quadrophenia: The Mod Ballet
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuadrophenia: The Mod Ballet at The Lowry is nothing short of a revelation. This groundbreaking production reimagines The Who’s seminal 1973 rock opera through the expressive language of ballet — and the result is a pulsating, poignant, and visually electrifying triumph.