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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

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

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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

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Jo Bannon: We Are F*cked

By Anna Kaszuba | 07.09.18

Doubt and disturbance come to 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

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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 Sanjoy Roy | 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