Reading Time: 5 minutesTheiyā Arts Dance Collective in collaboration with The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at The University of Edinburgh present a new interdisciplinary mixed media performance - Maiden | Mother | Whore - exploring the complex relationships between women, social structures, health and social policies, and institutions. We sit down with them to hear more.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrederick Ashton’s comic ballet has been performed by Birmingham Royal Ballet since 1962 and is known as a classic piece of modern ballet repertory. Following the story of Lise and her beau Colas, La Fille mal gardée tells the tale of love; familial, unrequited and returned.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStories - The Tap Dance Sensation, is a show by the acclaimed RB Dance Company. The show initially premiered back in 2019 in St. Witz France, before opening in Paris in 2020 and winning a slew of awards in 2022 at the Trophees de la Comedie Musicale ceremony. There have been over a hundred performances of this show in Paris, and it is now in London. It tells the story of a young actor starring in a film, while dealing with an oppressive director as the line between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. The show also just so happens to contain some of the best dancers that France has to offer.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs October casts its enchanting spell, the English National Ballet’s performance of Mary Skeaping’s Giselle at the Liverpool Empire Theatre feels like the perfect embodiment of the season. The production artfully intertwines the celebratory feeling of Oktoberfest in act one at the Rhineland wine festival and act two follows with the ethereal dread of the afterlife mimicking the eeriness of Halloween. This sets the stage for a ballet that demonstrates what happens when you give love your all.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with contemporary dance and physical theatre collective POCKETART whose latest work Fairy Tales (UK Premiere) features eight female dancers and two musicians in an exploration of the intersection of femininity, identity and self-discovery (22 & 23 Oct, The Place).
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow does it feel to fall from a trapeze, suffering a spinal cord injury that leaves you paralysed? For the ordinary, it's already unimaginable; let alone for an acrobatic dancer. Yet, having lived through this experience, dancer and choreographer Diana Niepce recounts her journey of recovery in her latest solo work, The Other Side of Dance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby is currently touring around the UK and parts of Europe until August 2025. It is being performed at the New Theatre, Oxford from the 15-19th October. The show is a dance adaptation of the BBC series that has been choreographed by the insanely talented, Benoit Swan Pouffer. Rambert School of Dance initially explored classical ballet but then evolved into many other different dance styles including hip hop and more abstract dance forms. The companies training and work is located in the South Bank area in London. It is a breeding group of intensive and groundbreaking training that is developed into large scale touring productions. Themes that the play looks into include gang violence, grief, war and community. It tells the story of Thomas Shelby, the leader of the Peaky Blinders (a Birmingham based gang), who takes control of Birmingham in 1919 through violence and child trafficking. It was a deeply moving and thought-provoking piece of theatre. With huge dance numbers and a brilliant live band this show is not one to be missed.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Mark Elie, CEO & Artistic Director at the Mark Elie Dance Foundation and Founder of the Portobello Dance & Performing Arts School, who pioneered Classically British & Co.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeveloped from her solo piece Hatched in 2007, Mamela Nyamza's Hatched Ensemble questions and confronts this legacy, eventually transformed into a celebration of South African culture and dance traditions.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with dance artist Farah Saleh to talk about her upcoming work The World We Share, created in collaboration with the company of artists.