REVIEW: Join, Sadler’s Wells
Reading Time: 2 minutesSurprising, exhilarating, and breathtakingly beautiful at every turn
Category contemporary
REVIEW: We Wear Our Wheels With Pride
Reading Time: 2 minutesA powerful tribute to the Rickshaw drivers of apartheid South Africa.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Andrew McNicol
Reading Time: 3 minutesCelebrating the 5th anniversary of McNicol Ballet Collective, Here & Now will feature 8 dancers who will perform highlights from the company’s previous dance works, including the critically acclaimed Of Silence, Moonbend, and Bates Beats, alongside the world premiere of a new work, choreographed by artistic director Andrew McNicol and set to a new score performed live. A Youngish Perspective holds this exclusive conversation with Andrew McNicol.
REVIEW: Age of Content
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival, Sadler’s Wells invites (LA)HORDE / Ballet National de Marseille to their newest venue in Stratford with a rip-roaring piece that feels straight out of Grand Theft Auto.
REVIEW: Hagay Dreaming
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe product of a collaboration between Taiwanese-American artist Shu Lea Cheang and Truku artist Dondon Hounwn, Hagay Dreaming tells a visual story drawn from that of the indigenous Truku tribe of Taiwan.
REVIEW: Sakinan Göze Çöp Batar (An over-protected eye always gets sand in it)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFirst presented in 2012, Sakinan Göze Çöp Batar (translated as "An Over-Protected Eye Always Gets Sand in It") is a solo performance by the French choreographer Christian Rizzo, created in collaboration with Turkish dancer Kerem Gelebek.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Robyn Orlin
Reading Time: 2 minutesSouthbank Centre and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels present the UK Premiere of Robyn Orlin’s We Wear Our Wheels with Pride performed by Moving Into Dance Mophatong (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 21 – 22 Mar) as part of Dance…
REVIEW: NOW
Reading Time: 2 minutesNOW is a hypnotic reminder that the present is never still—constantly shifting, fleeting, and alive. To mark 25 years of groundbreaking dance-theatre, the Jasmin Vardimon Company revisited and reimagined its most powerful works, weaving them together into…
REVIEW: Mariposa
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeNada’s dance drama is fierce, unexpected, beautiful, finding a powerfully generative medium for storytelling in its melding of art forms
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Clemence Debaig
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Clemence Debaig, director of Where We Meet? performing at The Cockpit from 28th Feb - 2nd March.