REVIEW: Obscura
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.
Category contemporary
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Rickerby Hinds and Jada Evelyn Ramsey
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Rickerby Hinds (writer/director) and Jada Evelyn Ramsey (who plays the character of Myeisha Mills). An electrifying fusion of beatboxing, spoken word, and hip-hop dance, Dreamscape is inspired by the killing of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old Black woman shot 12 times by police in California while she lay unconscious in a car.
REVIEW: Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana
Reading Time: 2 minutesCarlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana takes the classic Christmas ballet in a new direction with his charming Cuban re-imagining.
REVIEW: Ockham’s Razor Collaborator
Reading Time: 2 minutesCollaborator at The Place is one of those rare shows that wins you over not through spectacle, but through openness.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Kevin Edward Turner
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Kevin Edward Turner, MBE, artistic director, Company Chameleon. Obscura is a dance double bill from Manchester’s Company Chameleon, transforming two acclaimed outdoor works for the indoor stage as the ensemble returns to theatres for the first time since 2019.
REVIEW: The Red Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne might call this production the poetry of motion, but it is a great deal more – it is one’s religion practiced in rarefied atmosphere How does one go about adapting a critically acclaimed piece of art,…
REVIEW: The Wedding, Gecko
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visually stunning, ensemble-driven physical-theatre piece where “brides” become a darkly funny machine for belonging. Physical theatre company Gecko mark their 25th anniversary with a restaging of their 2017 production The Wedding, debuting at Sadler’s Wells East…
REVIEW: Ballet Black Shadows
Reading Time: 2 minutesBallet Black: SHADOWS is a production split cleanly down the middle - two halves, two sharply contrasting moods. It’s an evening that begins tentatively and ends in gleeful, macabre triumph.
REVIEW: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesA timeless fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of dancers
REVIEW: Marking Time
Reading Time: 3 minutesMarking Time delivers three fiercely distinct visions of how sound and movement bend, stretch, and disrupt our sense of time. Earlier this year, I saw Outlander at Kings Place and was fascinated by the musical chemistry between…