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
Category contemporary
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.
REVIEW: Pina Bausch’s Vollmond
Reading Time: 2 minutesA lyrical, elegant, and technically refined piece somewhat marred by its repetitive and clichéd exploration of the theme
REVIEW: Birdboy
Reading Time: 3 minutesA surreal, playful, and moving multi-media dance about weird kids — beautifully cohesive and captivating.
REVIEW: Figures In Extinction
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ll be honest, I didn’t know much about Crystal Pite or Simon McBurney before this, but Figures in Extinction at Aviva Studios was something else. It wasn’t just a dance show—it was an experience, the kind that settles in your chest and stays with you long after you’ve left.
REVIEW: Humanhood’s ∞ {Infinite}
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mix of mediation and exquisite dance that expands your consciousness ∞ {Infinite} is visionary dance company Humanhood’s first dance theatre meditation, leading the audience on a mystical journey through themes of movement and consciousness. The sound…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Julia Robert and Rudi Cole
Reading Time: 4 minutesAYP holds this exclusive with Julia Robert and Rudi Cole, creator of ∞ {Infinite}, a production that fuses ‘the most delicious dance’ with a spiritual calling, making the theatre a 21st century temple.
REVIEW: Our Mighty Groove
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Club Groove, where audience is both spectator and participant, the energy is high and community is cultivated through dance Serving as the opening show at Sadler’s Wells East, Our Mighty Groove displays an updated structure over…
REVIEW:World’s Evolution by Three60
Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant dance journey with a few rough edges
REVIEW: The Rite of Spring
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe type of show you pray will never end. Dewey Dell’s The Rite of Spring is sensational. A visual wonder, the performance explores the never-ending cycle of life and death against the backdrop of Igor Stravinsky’s dramatic…