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


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


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


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


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Jan Martens: Passing the Bechdel Test
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


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At work: Bára Sigfúsdóttir
Icelandic choreographer Bára Sigfúsdóttir on working between reality and imagination


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


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


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


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


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Oktoberdans, Bergen: minorities dance for a majority audience
Two programmes at Scandinavia's largest dance platform navigate the exclusivity of an ‘inclusive’ mindset


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Towards the ‘ironic spectator’
Apathy as activism: what has become of political art and a politicised audience?


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


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Dance+: Dead Poets Society
Show, don’t tell! A teacher’s lesson on conformity from an embodied perspective


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Black and blue at Festival Les Plateaux
Choreographers Ana Pi and Calixto Neto take on ‘black dance’ on their own terms


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Favourite jumper: Igor & Moreno, Idiot-Syncrasy
Caring but not careful – who knew an hour of jumping up and down would touch so many people in so many ways?


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Down in one: the single-shot music video
On the appeal and the achievement of the one-shot music video


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


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Tanz im August talkabout #2: portrait of myself as my father (Nora Chipaumire), The Waves (Noé Soulier)
Springback’s Berlin Three discuss patterns and parentage in two very different pieces at the Tanz im August season


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


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Tanz im August talkabout #1: Inoah (Bruno Beltrão) and R. OSA (Silvia Gribaudi)
Springback’s Berlin Three discuss body politics and national politics at the Tanz im August season


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


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Les Brigittines International Festival 2018
A many-layered thing: contrasting takeaways of our Springback writers at Les Brigittines, Brussels, reflect the genre-crossing styles of the festival itself


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


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


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


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


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[8:tension] at ImPulsTanz Vienna 2018
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


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Jo Bannon: We Are F*cked
Doubt and disturbance come to a climax in Jo Bannon’s powerfully penetrating performance


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


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


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Taneli Törmä: COVER – A symphonic poem in three movements
A merger of choreography and sound installation, Finnish artist Taneli Törmä’s COVER sensitively explores the kinaesthetic experience of sound.


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Rocío Molina: Grito Pelao
They say that Mother knows best, but does she know how to turn that into a performance?


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Danse Élargie 2018: big opportunities, bigger ambition
Beatboxing, b-boys, a beach and a balloon enlarge our concept of ‘dance’ in the fifth edition of the multi-disciplinary choreographic competition


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


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Bausch rebooted: Veza Fernández’s Wenn Auge Mund Wird
Vienna-based Veza Fernández refracts Bauschian Tanztheater through a contemporary prism


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Dance+: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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


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Pietro Marullo’s WRECK: survival of the fittest in the age of austerity?
Pietro Marullo’s ‘elastic performance’ is a staging of the struggle to survive in a precarious environment – and an example of it.


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Oona Doherty: Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus
A riveting portrait of the disadvantaged white male that meshes beauty with damnation


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


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Timothy and the Things: Hunting (Vadászat)
Three men hunting – but for what, for whom, and why? Anna Dohy looks to the wider stage for answers


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Jasna Vinovrški: Lady Justice
With witnesses, evidence and judgement – is a dance performance a bit of a trial?


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


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


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The wilderness within
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


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Christos Papadopoulos’s Opus: in search of the dialectics of music and movement
A textual exploration of a performative exploration in sound, meaning and time


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Mònica Pagès watches Likes by Nùria Guiu
Classical music journalist Mònica Pagès sees a solo about the value of ‘likes’ in an age of social media. How was it for her?


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The naked stage of Sanna Kekäläinen
Riikka Laakso on Finnish choreographer Sanna Kekäläinen, and the subversions and inversions of her 2017 piece Whorescope


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Mette Ingvartsen: 21 pornographies
Assuming the position is at the heart of this physical exploration of erotica


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Vero Cendoya: La Partida
Beautiful as dance can be, is it really any match for the beautiful game?


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At work: Meytal Blanaru
Brussels-based Israeli choreographer Meytal Blanaru on the workings behind her work


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Arkadi Zaides: TALOS
Arkadi Zaides' detatched demonstration of surveillance, digital simulation and border infringements


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Hodworks: Sunday
Hodworks’ Sunday begs the question: in the age of the selfie, what separates the person and the persona?