Reading Time: 3 minutesJasmin Vardimon doesn’t offer answers, but she does offer space to feel, to reflect, and to remember that life itself is full of thresholds. In her ALiCE, the message is clear: we are all in motion, all moving through wonderlands of our own, and sometimes the most radical thing we can do is keep walking, even when we don’t know what’s on the other side of the door.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpon returning home from seeing choreographer Becky Namgauds’s newest piece The Heat at the Lilian Baylis Studio, I set down my keys and looked at the couch in my living room, realizing that I would never be able to look at it the same way again.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBallet Black presents Chanel DaSilva’s A Shadow Work, a (literal) dance and struggle between our “undesirable” self and our “pristine” self, and Cassa Panchos newest tour de force, ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’, a gorgeous book to dance theater adaptation of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s best selling novel.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf Frontier is a meditation on the meaning and value of life’s existence, then PASSING is a sheer hymn to life and reproduction
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn endurance test has never looked quite so beautiful.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo young men play something that looks a lot like football as the crowd sits down in the circle of chairs surrounding the stage. The floor is marked to resemble a school gym, various circles and dotted lines laid out to vaguely resemble the courts of various sports.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVancouver’s Ballet BC is back in London on 20th & 21st May to begin an eight-venue Dance Consortium tour. The company is presenting a double bill of Crystal Pite’s Frontier and Johan Inger’s PASSING. We sat down with Artistic Director Medhi Walerski to discuss the production coming to the UK.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDance is such an interesting medium: without any words, it is possible to create an atmosphere and an image that sticks with an audience, and that’s exactly what Dance Is Not For Us did.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Journey Through Motion and Meaning
Reading Time: 2 minutesBoy Blue’s Generation Blue at the Barbican was more than just a showcase of hip-hop and street dance. It was a celebration of community, legacy, and sheer joy.