REVIEW: Mary, Queen of Scots
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production is a brilliant testament to the playful, vital nature of modern ballet - at times surreal, at times intensely human, and always captivating.
Category Dance
REVIEW: Last and First Men
Reading Time: 2 minutesNarrated by Tilda Swinton and composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Gotman, and set against the backdrop of Jóhannsson’s film, Neon Dance’s Last and First Men brings together some of the most celebrated names in contemporary performance and design.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Divine Tasinda
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Divine Tasinda, one of the performers, artistic directors and choreographers, and costume designers and makers of World's Evolution. Pioneering street dance company THREE60 presents the first Scottish Hip-Hop tour to take place in half a decade.
REVIEW: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Reading Time: 2 minutesJulia Lupașcu presents a work that confronts mortality with striking choreographic and theatrical intelligence. As part of Resolution 26 at The Place, Romanian choreographer Julia Lupașcu presented a work that confronted mortality with striking theatrical intelligence. Drawing…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Clive Lyttle
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Clive Lyttle, Artistic Director and Founder of Certain Blacks. They return with Black Athena Festival, a cross-disciplinary programme bringing together artists who push beyond conventional art forms.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Olga Balakleets
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Farine Clarke, GP turned playwright and writer of Heartsink, which plays at Riverside Studios from 21 April - 10 May.
REVIEW: Ballet Icons Gala
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnniversary galas should invite reflection, or at least a vague sense of what has come before. The 20th anniversary Ballet Icons Gala, however, felt curiously unstructured: a sequence of celebrated pas de deux and contemporary fragments assembled without a clear thematic thread.
REVIEW: Dreamscape
Reading Time: 2 minutesDreamscape arrives with the weight of real history and the urgency of lived experience. Blending hip-hop aesthetics with documentary truth, the production refuses the comfort of distance, instead pulling the audience into an intimate, unsettling reckoning with a life cut short and the systems that enabled it.
REVIEW: Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards Act 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesert Grassland Whiptail Lizards Act 1 is part of the Resolution Festival, the UK’s biggest festival of new choreography. Showing at The Place, it showcases an incredible 60 companies across 20 exhilarating nights.
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.