Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Sadiq talking about Tell Me,a visceral fusion of circus, dance and theatre tackling HIV stigma. What first made you want to create Tell Me? The first thing that made me want to make this…
Reading Time: 2 minutesColourful, magical and heart-warming, The Snowman continues to charm new generations Presented by Birmingham Repertory at the Peacock Theatre, this stage adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ book The Snowman (and the beloved 1982 animated film it inspired) remains what it has long…
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have and always will have a deep love and admiration for fantasy. Dress it up in music and dance and I’m there with bells and whistles and there is no mistake, this company have captured that fantastical element beautifully.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBallet Black: SHADOWS is a production split cleanly down the middle - two halves, two sharply contrasting moods. It’s an evening that begins tentatively and ends in gleeful, macabre triumph.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStaging a dance tribute to this controversial festival, as Armin Hokmi has done, is in itself a bold gesture deserving of praise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s an acquired taste, but when the music drops, so does your jaw
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe collaboration between Simon McBurney and Crystal Pite sounds irresistibly inviting and tasty, where McBurney’s bold yet playful meta-theatrical experimentation meets Pite’s precise and crisp choreography to conjure an overwhelmingly visceral feast.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPayal Ramchandani’s powerful new show Just Enough Madness uses the South Asian dance form of Kuchipudi to explore the silences around motherhood, miscarriage and mental health.
Catch it at Dance City, Newcastle on 22 November, followed by performances at Bradford Arts Centre on 26 March and The Lowry on 31 March.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis November, Adam Garcia's Irish and tap dance sensation Emerald Storm is returning to the Emerald Theatre for an unmissable season. Led by Lord of the Dance's Olivia Graydon, viral tap sensation Bayley Graham and Britain and America's Got Talent finalist Tom Ball, this high energy production presents a contemporary fusion of traditional Irish dance, tap and live music. We sat down with Olivia and Bailey to discuss their upcoming performance.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An elegant and urgent response to the current political climate on immigration” First premiered in January 2025 amid the sandstone canyons of AIUIa, Saudi Arabia as an outdoor, immersive site-specific performance commissioned by the Royal Commission for…