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Léa Tirabasso’s The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus.

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Yukiko Masui / Léa Tirabasso

By Ka Bradley | 19.03.19

A double bill that contrasts mental anguish with physical recklessness

2 min

The Symptoms’ 2017 revival of You Trash! in Budapest

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Trash aesthetic:
Meet The Symptoms

By Lena Megyeri | 14.03.19

What is waste? Who is trash? Réka Szabó and Dániel Szász of The Symptoms speak about recycling a street performance

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Susie (Dakota Johnson) in the first dance scene from Luca Guadgnino’s Suspiria (2018)

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Dance+: Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria

By Jelena Mihelčić | 01.03.19

Toil and trouble brews in a cavernous, covenous dance company

3 min

Maya Jilan Dong in Whip (Akram Khan Company, Portraits in Otherness). Costume design by Marie Cantenys.

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At work: Marie Cantenys

By Marie Pons | 13.02.19

‘The garment is not the outcome, the outcome is everything together.’ Fashion designer Marie Cantenys talks about working with dancer Maya Jilan Dong

6 min

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London International Mime Festival 2019

By Ka Bradley | 12.02.19

Using language and losing language: Theatre Re, Gecko and Peeping Tom at the 2019 London International Mime Festival

6 min

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Taiwan Dance Platform 2018

By Sanjoy Roy | 29.01.19

The 2018 Taiwan Dance Platform was ‘made in Asia’, but even more international in scope

8 min

Keira Knightley and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina

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Dance+: Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina

By Lena Megyeri | 22.01.19

A pivotal scene in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina is wordless, its drama of love, transgression and death distilled in dance

3 min

review

Jan Martens: Passing the Bechdel Test

By Marie Pons | 15.01.19

Jan Martens’ choreography is a canvas that interweaves the action and speech of teenage performers with an impressive array of feminist texts, figures and thoughts

2 min

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At work: Bára Sigfúsdóttir

By Marie Pons | 10.01.19

Icelandic choreographer Bára Sigfúsdóttir on working between reality and imagination

6.5 min

The young women in Rita Góbi’s Snapdragons. Photo: Gábor Dusa

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Pal Frenák: W_all / Rita Góbi: Snapdragons

By Lena Megyeri | 08.01.19

6 min

String Section by Reckless Sleepers, at DanceLive Aberdeen.

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DanceLive Aberdeen, Scotland

By Róisín O’Brien | 03.01.19

Aberdeen’s DanceLive festival combines a productive dance platform and a conscious aim to connect with non-dance audiences

6 min

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Springback Live at Ice Hot, Reykjavik 2018

By Sanjoy Roy | 18.12.18

Like daytime TV – but for dance addicts! Springback Magazine produced our first live stream at Ice Hot Reykjavik, December 2018

110 min

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Dance+: Mauvais Sang

By Anastasios Koukoutas | 11.12.18

An intoxicating scene from Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang embodies the headlong rush of youthful love and the mystery of its memory

3 min

A composite body in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Babel. Photo © Maarten Van Den Abeele

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Polyphony, playing and politics: the many voices of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

By Sanjoy Roy | 06.12.18

On voices, parts, and playing parts in the many-limbed choreography of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

8 min

Eisa Jocson’s Princess. Photo © Jörg Baumann

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Oktoberdans, Bergen: minorities dance for a majority audience

By Yasen Vasilev | 29.11.18

Two programmes at Scandinavia's largest dance platform navigate the exclusivity of an ‘inclusive’ mindset

9 min

El Conde de Torrefiel in La Plaza. Photo © Els De Nil

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Towards the ‘ironic spectator’

By Anastasios Koukoutas | 27.11.18

Apathy as activism: what has become of political art and a politicised audience?

10 min

review

Ivo Dimchev: Som Faves

By Alexandra Gray | 22.11.18

A maniacal movement manifesto upends audience expectations in a one-off performance at London’s Chisenhale Dance Space

3 min

Conformity scene from Dead Poets Society

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Dance+: Dead Poets Society

By Stella Mastorosteriou | 20.11.18

Show, don’t tell! A teacher’s lesson on conformity from an embodied perspective

3 min

One body inhabited by many: Calixto Neto’s oh!rage

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Black and blue at Festival Les Plateaux

By Marie Pons | 15.11.18

Choreographers Ana Pi and Calixto Neto take on ‘black dance’ on their own terms

6 min

Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas, Idiot-Syncrasy

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Favourite jumper: Igor & Moreno, Idiot-Syncrasy

By Ka Bradley | 13.11.18

Caring but not careful – who knew an hour of jumping up and down would touch so many people in so many ways?

6 min

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Down in one: the single-shot music video

By Daniel Pitt | 06.11.18

On the appeal and the achievement of the one-shot music video

6 min

screenshot of Christian Bale In American Pscyho Hip to be Square scene

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Dance+: American Psycho

By Róisín O’Brien | 30.10.18

Is that a raincoat or are you just glad to see me? Róisín O’Brien on the choreography of a murder

3 min

Photo of Nora Chipaumire: Portrait of Myself as My Father

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Tanz im August talkabout #2: portrait of myself as my father (Nora Chipaumire), The Waves (Noé Soulier)

By Evgeny Borisenko | 25.10.18

Springback’s Berlin Three discuss patterns and parentage in two very different pieces at the Tanz im August season

9 min

‘Double You’, a project idea from the London Dansathon event

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Dansathon: an international dance hackathon

By Sanjoy Roy | 16.10.18

A report from the first ‘international dance hackathon’, a joint venture between Liège, London and Lyon that is more than just a competition

10 min

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Tanz im August talkabout #1: Inoah (Bruno Beltrão) and R. OSA (Silvia Gribaudi)

By Annette van Zwoll | 12.10.18

Springback’s Berlin Three discuss body politics and national politics at the Tanz im August season

9 min

review

Jefta van Dinther: Dark Field Analysis

By Sanjoy Roy | 02.10.18

Two men embark on an expedition inside the body and beyond the mind, in Jefta van Dinther’s psychedelic Dark Field Analysis

2 min

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Les Brigittines International Festival 2018

By Oonagh Duckworth | 25.09.18

A many-layered thing: contrasting takeaways of our Springback writers at Les Brigittines, Brussels, reflect the genre-crossing styles of the festival itself

6 min

Michikazu Matsune, Elizabeth Ward and Frans Poelstra in Matsune’s All Together.

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Michikazu Matsune: All Together

By Claire Lefèvre | 20.09.18

Recollection, reflection and re-enactment make for a memorable evening in Michikazu Matsune’s new piece about people both present and absent

2 min

Abigail Breslin in the dance scene from the 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine

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Dance+: Little Miss Sunshine

By Anna Kaszuba | 18.09.18

For the win! Anna Kaszuba on why artlessness triumphs in the dance scene from ‘Little Miss Sunshine’

3 min

review

Rosas: The Six Brandenburg Concertos

By Evgeny Borisenko | 14.09.18

A workbook choreographic exercise builds to a surprisingly exhilarating finale in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s new Six Brandenburg Concertos

2 min

composite of YouTube thumbnails for Nuria Guiu Sagarra’s Likes and Premier Stratagème’s Forecasting

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Shape of YouTube

By Jelena Mihelčić | 12.09.18

Two widely viewed danceworks beg the questions: how does YouTube shape dance? And how do you shape YouTube?

6 min

Rollerblading performers of Alex Baczynski-Jenkins's Us Swerve

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[8:tension] at ImPulsTanz Vienna 2018

By Claire Lefèvre | 08.09.18

Don’t expect the new to be comfortable: the [8:tension] platform for new choreography is provocative, plural, sometimes tedious – and often out of the comfort zone

7 min

review

Jo Bannon: We Are F*cked

By Anna Kaszuba | 07.09.18

Doubt and disturbance come to a climax in Jo Bannon’s powerfully penetrating performance

2 min

Photo of Missing by physical theatre company Gecko

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Beyond borders: Amit Lahav and Gecko

By Daniel Pitt | 04.09.18

Gecko’s Amit Lahav talks to Daniel Pitt about straddling genres, insularity and internationalism in British theatre – and being pummelled with love

7 min

Screencap of Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing, Love Man scene

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Dance+: Dirty Dancing

By Alexandra Gray | 30.08.18

Alexandra Gray on her first time watching Dirty Dancing – and why Baby’s first time on the dancefloor stays with her

3 min

Photo of Taneli Törmä in Sophie Bellin-Hansen’s bell-covered costume, for the second section of the triptych COVER

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Taneli Törmä: COVER – A symphonic poem in three movements

By Riikka Laakso | 16.08.18

A merger of choreography and sound installation, Finnish artist Taneli Törmä’s COVER sensitively explores the kinaesthetic experience of sound.

2 min

Photo of Rocío Molina, Lola Cruz and Síliva Perez Cruz in Grito Pelao

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Rocío Molina: Grito Pelao

By Clàudia Brufau | 30.07.18

They say that Mother knows best, but does she know how to turn that into a performance?

2 min

review

Gisèle Vienne: Crowd

By Evgeny Borisenko | 24.07.18

Is dance raving mad to look to the rave scene for inspiration?

2 min

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Danse Élargie 2018: big opportunities, bigger ambition

By Anna Chirescu | 20.07.18

Beatboxing, b-boys, a beach and a balloon enlarge our concept of ‘dance’ in the fifth edition of the multi-disciplinary choreographic competition

5 min

Miet Warlop’s Fruits of Labor at Potsdamer Tanztage 2018

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Potsdamer Tanztage
or: 3 × 3 = 8

By David Pallant | 18.07.18

When does 3 × 3 = 8? When our three reviewers go to three performances each at Berlin’s 2018 Potsdamer Tanztage festival

10 min

Woman held up by others in Veza Fernández dance theatre Wenn Auge Mund Wird

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Bausch rebooted: Veza Fernández’s Wenn Auge Mund Wird

By Claire Lefèvre | 16.07.18

Vienna-based Veza Fernández refracts Bauschian Tanztheater through a contemporary prism

5 min

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Dance+: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

By Ka Bradley | 13.07.18

Dancing home alone before going out to do what vampires do. Ka Bradley on a moment of dance in the movie A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

3 min

Giant pillow in An outdoor version of Pietro Marullo's Wreck

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Pietro Marullo’s WRECK: survival of the fittest in the age of austerity?

By Yasen Vasilev | 16.06.18

Pietro Marullo’s ‘elastic performance’ is a staging of the struggle to survive in a precarious environment – and an example of it.

3 min

Oona Doherty in Hope Hunt (and the ascension into Lazarus).

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Oona Doherty: Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus

By Claire Lefèvre | 06.06.18

A riveting portrait of the disadvantaged white male that meshes beauty with damnation

2 min

Silhouetted women in Florentina Holzinger's Apollon.

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Florentina Holzinger: Apollon

By Róisín O’Brien | 06.06.18

Dance gets down and dirty – but is it worth the gross-out?

2 min

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Katerina Andreou: BSTRD

By Anastasios Koukoutas | 06.06.18

Can a solo dance piece create, on stage, that much needed room of one’s own?

2 min

3 men in Timothy and the Things in László Fülöp’s choreography Hunting

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Timothy and the Things: Hunting (Vadászat)

By Anna Dohy | 06.06.18

Three men hunting – but for what, for whom, and why? Anna Dohy looks to the wider stage for answers

2 min

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Jasna Vinovrški: Lady Justice

By Jelena Mihelčić | 25.03.18

With witnesses, evidence and judgement – is a dance performance a bit of a trial?

2 min

Red picture of Ligia Lewis's Minor Matters

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Ligia Lewis: Minor Matter

By Louise Tanoto | 25.03.18

Black matters in Minor Matter, a powerful encounter with the myriad concepts of blackness

2 min

Luke Baio and Dominik Grünbühe in Aarhus, Denmark, 2017

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‘Dreams’

By Riikka Laakso | 25.03.18

‘We are dancers, we create the dreams.’ Albert Einstein

6 min

Audience and performers mix in Luke George's Public Action at Keir Choreographic Award

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How to like dance

By Luke Forbes | 25.03.18

Audience clubs are on the increase - why? Luke Forbes on his experience of a new workshop in Melbourne

8 min

View of mountains and sea of Hammerfest, Norway

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The wilderness within

By Sanjoy Roy | 25.03.18

What happens when dance takes nature as its stage? A festival in the northernmost town in the world leads to a changed sense of self, culture and existence

8 min