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
Category contemporary
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…
REVIEW:Akram Khan Company and Manal AIDowanyan Presents: Thikra: Night of Remembering
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An elegant and urgent response to the current political climate on immigration” First premiered in January 2025 amid the sandstone canyons of AIUIa, Saudi Arabia as an outdoor, immersive site-specific performance commissioned by the Royal Commission for…
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
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…