review

Yasen Vasilev | 20.11.24

An ascetic duet for mother and machine – both performing with brain and heart

  2 min

review

Ingeborg Zackariassen | 18.11.24

Connecting us through fire, rain, blood, haircuts – and big jumps

  14 min

review, article

Ariadne Mikou | 05.11.24

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Chara Kotsali and Elena Antoniou charge artistic creation with personal and feminist resonances

  8 min

article

Léa Poiré | 31.10.24

Lithuanian choreographer Agnietė Lisičkinaitė locate her work at the crossover between art and activism, dancing and demonstrating – and going from black and white to grey

  7 min

article

Ariadne Mikou | 15.10.24

A conversation with Adriana Borriello and Thierry De Mey about interweaving sound and motion, rationality and spirituality

  7 min

review, article

Rebecca Douglass | 08.10.24

What’s cosy about an octopus? Submerge yourself in the Amsterdam Fringe Festival to find out…

  11 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 24.09.24

A retrospective in a ‘rush’ becomes a skilful and yet intimate reenactment that connects past and present

  2 min

review

Marie Pons | 19.09.24

Inviting ghosts to the party, Samir Kennedy’s sweet solo requiem subtly blends loss, hope and desire

  2 min

review

Callysta Croizer | 18.09.24

Loving dance is a matter of time – and place – at the Biarritz festival’s 34th edition

  11 min

review

Annette van Zwoll, Emily May, Evgeny Borisenko | 12.09.24

Pick your own route as three writers navigate nine performances from Berlin’s long, wide and varied Tanz im August festival

  24 min

article

Léa Poiré | 10.09.24

Through the eyes of Xenia Koghilaki, the punkish practices of headbanging and moshing are less violent than they seem

  5 min

review, article

Lena Megyeri | 05.09.24

Surface impressions and deeper impacts felt at Vienna’s annual cornucopia of performances

  10 min

review, article

Jonas Schildermans | 03.09.24

Spaces, structures, bare skin, body mechanics and even hilarity at Vienna’s vast ImPulsTanz Festival

  10 min

review

Róisín O’Brien | 27.08.24

Works by choreographers from Belgium, Scotland, Denmark, Spain and Italy in a quick dip at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe

  7 min

review

Anastasio Koukoutas | 01.08.24

Stars, rockets, moonwalks, balloon farts and noisy shit… five world premieres and one national premiere by Greek artists range far and wide at Athens Epidaurus Festival

  9 min

review, article

Ariadne Mikou | 31.07.24

The second edition of Lugano Dance Project brought location, site and architecture into focus

  13 min

review

Lydia Wharf | 29.07.24

Places for dance in times of unrest – a week at Tanec Praha

  11 min

review, article

Robin Lamothe | 26.07.24

It’s all quite a performance at Avignon, with its IN and OFF festivals, its dancers and its audiences – including our writer, Robin Lamothe

  13 min

review, article

Rebecca Douglass | 16.07.24

Brazilian performance coursed through the Holland Festival this year, a river of many currents…

  11 min

review, article

Callysta Croizer | 11.07.24

Dance artists from all over Europe and beyond settle in the Agora – International City of Dance for a historic summer festival

  15 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 09.07.24

The losses of community and continuity faced by Athens’ Duncan Dance Research Center are all too familiar stories for dance artists – but the struggle continues, for the sake of both past and future

  5 min

review

Georgia Howlett | 27.06.24

A window onto an ongoing exchange project between dance artists in Africa and in Europe

  4 min

review, article

Robin Lamothe | 25.06.24

Robin Lamothe digests 20 shows in a day at the biennale competition for new choreography – so that you don’t have to

  7 min

review, article

Riikka Laakso | 04.06.24

‘Sweet roaring’ promised this year’s Dansa València festival of national and international dance

  11 min

article

Maria Palma Teixeira | 28.05.24

Can beauty be a form of resistance? Can dance transform people, systems? An ongoing prison project uses dance to explore both chains and changes

  15 min

review

Liza Weber | 16.05.24

Part Passion Play, part Monty Python, a performance for a three-in-one trio of characters called Andrea

  2 min

review, article

Liza Weber, Dom Czapski | 14.05.24

Two (relative) youngsters share their experiences of a festival for (relative) oldsters

  15 min

article

Francesc Nello Deakin | 09.05.24

Could the phenomenal rise of AI-generated media make us value live performance all the more?

  3 min

review, article

Georgia Howlett | 03.05.24

Tech, tailfeathers and tomatoes feature in the dance outings of London’s Taiwan Festival of contemporary arts

  8 min

review

Anastasio Koukoutas | 30.04.24

In the latest of his surreal, anthropomorphic and monstrous masquerades, Laskaridis puts fear into the frame

  2 min

article

Oonagh Duckworth | 11.04.24

A three-day season on the sea explores the poetics of submerged perspectives

  9 min

review

Sanjoy Roy | 04.04.24

An energetic and unnervingly zeitgeisty work that both comes from and speaks to our age

  2 min

review, article

Ariadne Mikou | 28.03.24

Sounding out the 18th edition of Rome’s Equilibrio dance festival

  8 min

article

Ariadne Mikou | 21.03.24

A conversation with the creative team about how one performance has evolved as it opens out to visually impaired audiences

  8 min

review, article

Callysta Croizer | 19.03.24

Walking between the Fra-Gi-Le, the absurd, the (un)dressy and the obscene – a weekend at the 12th edition of Swiss Dance Days

  12 min

review, article

Betina Panagiotara | 15.03.24

Crashing, banging, balancing, fighting, remembering, existing – it’s a high-volume outing for Onassis Dance Days

  8 min

review, article

Evgeny Borisenko | 08.03.24

What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions?

  12 min

article

Georgia Howlett, Lena Megyeri | 28.02.24

Two takes on a cinematic dance scene that is simultaneously strange and mighty

  9 min

review, article

Marie Pons | 21.02.24

How to ‘land’ at Parcours Danse? French writer Marie Pons takes her first steps at the long-running Montreal festival

  15 min

review, article

Elsa Vinet | 06.02.24

Echoes, dissonance and unison, exploring the stage as a group

  6 min

review, article

Anna Kozonina | 01.02.24

On the social, spiritual, mundane and existential realities of living in a female body

  15 min

review

Callysta Croizer | 30.01.24

From krumping to breaking, an intense liberating solo with moving paradoxes

  2 min

review, article

Ariadne Mikou | 04.01.24

Time and mortality take the stage at Rome’s Short Theatre festival

  5 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 20.12.23

A standout performance at Budapest’s Sissi Autumn Dance Week gets very meta…

  5 min

review, article

Ariadne Mikou | 14.12.23

Presenting a variety and abundance of the current Italian contemporary dance scene

  10 min

review, article

Stella Mastorosteriou | 12.12.23

On the background to and the performances in the 23rd edition of the Cyprus Choreography Platform

  10 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 04.12.23

A minimal yet mesmerising choreographic orchestration for mature dancers

  2 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 30.11.23

Contact, combat and continuity in a ‘remediation’ of 19th-century spectacle

  2 min

review

Elsa Vinet | 16.11.23

The Festival d’Automne, a Parisian melting pot ‘à consommer sans modération’

  7 min

review

Georgia Howlett | 14.11.23

London’s Dance Umbrella keeps moving with the times, 45 years on

  9 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 10.11.23

A minimal choreographic language enlivens the present with the past

  2 min

review

Liza Weber | 07.11.23

The pulse of pantsula made palpable

  2 min

review

Yasen Vasilev | 31.10.23

A tender work where going inwards lifts us all upwards

  2 min

review

Inês Carvalho | 27.10.23

The body as a storyteller in a work inspired by a book of short stories

  2 min

article

Hang Huang | 19.10.23

The rising Portuguese choreographer talks about the background to his ‘mature’ work, Carcaça

  6 min

article

Oonagh Duckworth | 17.10.23

Springback writers gathered for our annual Assembly at Oriente Occidente 2023 in Rovereto, Italy. We collated the resulting reflections, presentations and diaries into a special supplement.

  min

review

Georgia Howlett | 16.10.23

Free public performances place dance – and audiences – differently

  8 min

review, article

Emily May, Evgeny Borisenko | 03.10.23

Two Springback writers took pot-luck at the big Berlin dance festival

  14 min

review, article

Rebecca Douglass | 28.09.23

A dance-focused look at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival finds humans on the edge…

  10 min

review, article

Róisín O’Brien | 25.09.23

In contemporary dance, is the intellectually interesting also the entertainment wary? You never can tell…

  7 min

article

Róisín O’Brien | 20.09.23

An interview with the French-born Scottish dance artist as she creates her first self-directed work

  6 min

review, article

Lydia Wharf | 18.09.23

A festival where the body moves fluently – and intimately – between stage, site, screen and headset

  9 min

review, article

Stella Mastorosteriou, Ariadne Mikou | 14.09.23

Themes from the 13th edition of the international contemporary dance festival in the coastal town of Chania, Crete

  14 min

review, article

Lena Megyeri | 11.09.23

The imprint of the past on the performance of the present, at the 40th edition of ImPulsTanz Vienna

  8 min

review

Emily May | 10.08.23

This year’s Italian and international commissions at the Venice Biennale contrast in almost every way

  5 min

review

Greta Pieropan | 08.08.23

A poetic other world is magically conjured from cloth, space, sound, bodies – and marshmallows

  2 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 01.08.23

A Greek work selected for international exposure is rich in ideas, whether as postmodern profusion, density of material or to fill a vacuum

  2 min

review, article

Callysta Croizer | 26.07.23

Avignon’s national choreographic development centre distils styles and ambiences in its summer programme - on a daily basis

  9 min

article

Oonagh Duckworth | 13.07.23

Rosas dancer Carlos Garbin talks about becoming a Rosas musician in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s new Exit Above

  6 min

review

Yasen Vasilev | 12.07.23

A selection of performances from Brussels’ expansive Kunstenfestivaldesarts shows its stylistic and thematic range

  10 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 11.07.23

How was the strand of performances from Israel at Rome’s Fuori Programma festival?

  7 min

review

Dom Czapski | 04.07.23

Between mother and son, motherland and migration, this tender tale is moving – if not specifically so

  2 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 16.06.23

Form undulates with flow in a sensorial choreography of imagination, evocation and presence

  2 min

article

Yasen Vasilev | 08.06.23

A European workshop on equity in dance prompts reflections on enclosure and inclusion, on insiders, outsiders, in-betweeners and go-betweeners

  12 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 06.06.23

Talking about the big bang that opened STHLM festival in Stockholm – and about the act of talking about dance

  12 min

review

Lena Megyeri | 01.06.23

Impressive but also frail but also funny, a show that is a little human, a little animal and a little magical

  2 min

review

Plamen Harmandjiev | 30.05.23

Beyond trivial and beyond tasteful… Holzinger rides again, through pop, schlock and Schiller

  2 min

review, article

Evgeny Borisenko | 25.05.23

An in-depth dive into the fourth and final edition of Berlin’s Queer Darlings festival

  14 min

review, article

Georgia Howlett | 23.05.23

Both sides of the stage: audience member Georgia Howlett talks with creator and performer Malik Nashad Sharpe about their show Goner

  6 min

review, article

Riikka Laakso | 16.05.23

Valencia’s long-running annual festival calls to dance, to rhythm – and finally to us

  12 min

article

Ariadne Mikou | 11.05.23

How a five-month season of dance in Rome is finding its niche within the city’s larger dance ecology

  9 min

review, article

Lena Megyeri | 09.05.23

After Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, might contemporary dance be growing less self-obsessed?

  7 min

review

Emily May | 26.04.23

Emily May found herself watching Czech Dance Platform through a postmodern-ish American lens (just don’t tell her teenage self)

  8 min

article

Greta Pieropan | 04.04.23

Local works paired with international ones on the stage of Dance Limerick’s What Next festival

  4 min

article

Betina Panagiotara | 04.04.23

Betina Panagiotara travels from the southeast to the northwest of Europe to find out what peripheral dance practices look like

  8 min

review

Hang Huang | 29.03.23

Falling, failing and the fates that befall us in Mascherin’s poetically staged physical fable

  2 min

review

Georgia Howlett | 16.03.23

The impacts of harrowing piece on the ‘science of programmed death’ are felt inside, outside and between our bodies

  2 min

review

Anna Kozonina | 14.03.23

Anna Kozonina journeys through an impressive programme but wonders why we keep caging dance in black boxes and white cubes

  14 min

review

Georgia Howlett, Sanjoy Roy | 23.02.23

A newbie and a has-been take separate routes through the London International Mime Festival

  min

review

Annette van Zwoll | 09.01.23

A triple bill of duet encounters with mysteries that both captivate and mystify

  2 min

article

Oonagh Duckworth | 18.12.22

Springback writers gathered for our annual Assembly at the Oktoberdans 2022 festival in Bergen, Norway. We collated the resulting reviews, presentations and diaries into a special supplement.

  min

article

Karina Buckley | 16.12.22

Laughing, learning, touring and moving (slowly!) in the face of climate degradation – with Rita Marcalo’s Instant Dissidence

  12 min

review

Jonas Schildermans | 13.12.22

Dance work as material and metaphor for body labour and physical burnout

  2 min

review

Karina Buckley | 29.11.22

A mix of live and VR performance in response to Joyce’s classic novel becomes a heady, scented experience

  2 min

article

Lydia Wharf | 24.11.22

Lydia Wharf talks to Ellie Harris of London’s Greenwich & Docklands International Festival about the increasing challenges to international programming and co-operation

  5 min

review

Lena Megyeri | 08.11.22

In its (dis)association of word and action, Adrienn Hód's new work touches a primal fear – of the critic

  2 min

review

Inês Carvalho | 03.11.22

A singers, dancers and orchestra reach out in a meditation on the unreachability of desire

  2 min

review

Georgia Howlett | 11.10.22

With its subconscious mysteries and fugitive feelings, Reverie is as much a ‘place’ as a ‘piece’

  2 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 10.10.22

Time, space, light, cycles – Eleonora Siarava’s Blue Beyond is both cosmic and minimal

  2 min

article

Sedera Ranaivoarinosy | 07.10.22

Oona Doherty ventures down new roads as London’s Dance Umbrella gives us a chance to look back at where she’s been

  7 min

review

Hang Huang | 20.09.22

A curiously cryptic hybrid morphs into an echo of a singer’s unregretted life

  2 min

review, article

Róisín O’Brien | 15.09.22

Róisín O’Brien figures a way round dance at the Edinburgh Festivals

  6 min

review

Ariadne Mikou | 13.09.22

In midsummer, the Italian city of Bassano del Grappa becomes a many-limbed festival of dancing

  8 min

review, article

Lena Megyeri | 08.09.22

Not just the sights but the sounds: Lena Megyeri continues her route through Vienna’s month-long ImPulsTanz festival

  7 min

review, article

Lena Megyeri | 06.09.22

Lena Megyeri looks at climate and memory in the first of two routes through Vienna’s sprawling ImPulsTanz festival

  8 min

review, article

Evgeny Borisenko | 29.08.22

Munich’s long-running, many-stranded Tanzwerkstatt Europa serves as a quality sample of what’s in the air of current contemporary dance

  14 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 25.08.22

The big, well-organised Nordic dance platform returns with performances that are variously emotive, well-crafted, surreal and smartypants

  12 min

review

Hang Huang | 23.08.22

Humans within a more-than-human world – but does the idea outweigh the material?

  2 min

review

Sedera Ranaivoarinosy | 19.08.22

An audience gently transported from Berlin to Sápmi, to witness a performance of roots, reclamation and resilience

  2 min

review

Plamen Harmandjiev | 17.08.22

Dimchev’s entertainingly provocative song, dance and quiz-show sees six characters in search of a musical. Meta, much?

  2 min

article

Hang Huang | 11.08.22

A new performance festival moving between the ‘non-fungible’ or unique body and its digital reproductions and simulations

  7 min

article

Stella Mastorosteriou | 09.08.22

Beauties and realities mix and separate at the long-standing Greek dance festival

  13 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 25.07.22

Dance platforms may be designed for professional development, but the art itself is their lifeblood. Anna Kozonina takes its temperature at Baltic Dance Platform 2022

  13 min

article

Ariadne Mikou | 21.07.22

A performing arts festival in Sicily that nurtures and rewards young artists – but is it enough?

  9 min

article

Georgia Howlett | 19.07.22

Rome’s ‘untitled’ youth arts festival strikes chords with young people’s complex experiences of unentitlement

  10 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 13.07.22

A new dance festival with a utopian setting – and vision?

  9 min

article

Sedera Ranaivoarinosy | 11.07.22

Who were the hits, also-rans and could-haves/should-haves at the international Danse Élargie competition for new choreography?

  6 min

article

Yasen Vasilev | 07.07.22

Three works at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels take forms that articulate complexities of the world today

  8 min

review

Hang Huang | 04.07.22

A choreographic debut tunes music, movement and personal history

  2 min

review

Bas Blaasse | 30.06.22

Masculinities and spectatorships questioned up front and behind the back

  2 min

review

Yasen Vasilev | 23.06.22

Buckets, cleaning cloths, soap and water become implements of joyous resistance

  2 min

review, article

Emily May | 21.06.22

Awakening connections between dance, art, industrialism and personal history

  7 min

review

Bas Blaasse | 07.06.22

An artistic alliance configures everyday movement and moveable panels – to what end?

  2 min

review

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 03.06.22

Dystopian poetry coming from other-worldly dark matter and black blood

  2 min

article

Evgeny Borisenko, Anastasio Koukoutas, Anna Kozonina, Lena Megyeri, Lydia Wharf, Greta Pieropan | 26.05.22

A variety of glimpses on to Brussels dance through a window in March 2022

  12 min

review

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 23.05.22

Will chocolate and floral flavours in an industrial building form the gateway to a sisterly rite of passage?

  2 min

review

Lena Megyeri | 29.03.22

Changing the rules of performance – while staying on the same pitch?

  2 min

article

Jonas Schildermans | 22.03.22

Covid and climate change have accelerated the creation of VR and performance hybrids, especially in Taiwan

  8 min

article

Stella Mastorosteriou | 18.03.22

A youngster helps out our grownup at a Greek festival that asks how young audiences might respond to contemporary dance that’s not specifically made for them

  7 min

article

Evgeny Borisenko | 07.03.22

Tomorrow is the question. How does dance move with and through the end of times?

  13 min

review

Ka Bradley | 03.03.22

Charles Dickens’ bulky, tangled tale boiled down to a soup of familial deception…

  2 min

article

Charles A. Catherine | 01.03.22

The Swiss dance platform is a cocktail of art, culture and dance… but which mixes hit the spot for Charles A. Catherine?

  8 min

article

Ka Bradley, Sanjoy Roy | 21.02.22

Channelled online in last year’s edition, LIMF 2022 reopens its many-faced, multi-sensory playground of live communication

  10 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 14.02.22

Anna Kozonina selects from and reflects on the latest edition of Helsinki’s long-standing international festival

  12 min

article

Emily May | 03.02.22

On blending literature, theatre and dance – Ben Duke talks about storytelling, embodiment and the classics

  9 min

article

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 27.01.22

Jordi Ribot takes a look into and around the long-standing, many-armed Spanish choreography platform

  9 min

translation

Marie Pons | 24.01.22

Choreomanias, contagious movement and collectivity – Mette Ingvartsen delves into the background to her new solo

  17 min

article

Sanjoy Roy | 05.01.22

Can we opt for rail tracks instead of flight trails? Springback editor Sanjoy Roy gave it a go – and shares some practical and life lessons from the experience

  12 min

review

Charles A. Catherine | 28.12.21

Based in a Rio favela and fêted in Paris, Lia Rodrigues brings different yet connected works to this year’s Festival d’Automne

  4 min

article

Riikka Laakso, Anna Kozonina, Yasen Vasilev, Greta Pieropan | 07.12.21

A collection of four responses to four works at CODA Oslo International Dance Festival 2021

  11 min

review

Yasen Vasilev | 29.11.21

Can a theatre event infect a public body with movement?

  2 min

review

Oonagh Duckworth | 17.11.21

A troupe of men with hands for fig-leaves are ‘just for you’ in a performance that is both bittersweet and perplexing

  2 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 04.11.21

Lena Megyeri at the bumper edition of the Tanec Praha’s Czech Dance Platform

  13 min

review

Ka Bradley | 06.10.21

A Crip kink dance shows the linkage of liberation and constraint, the leashed and the unleashed – physically, erotically, socially, emotionally

  2 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 27.09.21

To complement our snappy 1-line reviews of 26 ImPulsTanz shows, let Lena Megyeri be your in-depth guide to one week at the month-long festival

  13 min

article

Róisín O’Brien | 21.09.21

Big arts festivals have been cautiously opening up to the public – but what is it like to be there? Róisín O’Brien sampled summer dance in Edinburgh…

  10 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 26.08.21

Twenty-six performances from ImPulsTanz Vienna 2021 – condensed into one sentence each

  3 min

review

Lydia Wharf | 24.08.21

An antidote to digital dislocation, guided experiences such as Protein's En Route reconnect us with place and presence

  2 min

review

Emily May | 15.07.21

Slow, steady, serene – an open-air double bill by German choreographer Isabelle Schad

  2 min

article

Gaia Clotilde Chernetich | 08.07.21

Italian choreographer Michele Di Stefano on curation, choreography and the possibility of a ‘new normal’ for dance

  5 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 29.06.21

What is happening in experimental choreography in Moscow and Saint Petersburg?

  18 min

article

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 08.06.21

A letter to and two postcards from ‘test events’ for the reawakening of live performance

  8 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 11.05.21

Collaborators Tanja Erhart and Katharina Senk talk about multi-sensorial connection, technological pleasures and the aesthetics of access

  9 min

article

Emily May | 07.05.21

Dance memes may be common, but few emerge from within the contemporary dance world. Enter Mr Felden Krisis…

  9 min

review

Jonas Schildermans | 04.05.21

A stripped down but hyperkinetic composition invokes a collective will

  2 min

review

Yasen Vasilev | 30.04.21

Strict forms and unsettling imagery combine to dissolve gender identity

  2 min

article

Sanjoy Roy | 15.04.21

Springback experiences of what works (or doesn’t) as online class participants

  6 min

review

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 12.04.21

A polished kinetic, aural and videographic walk around joy, guided by Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Broek

  2 min

article

Róisín O’Brien | 22.03.21

Going digital in 2020 has been a natural step for a festival founded to hybridise physical and virtual realms

  7 min

review

Charles A. Catherine | 16.02.21

Revisiting a work twenty years on, hip hop dance artist Hamid Ben Mahi finds that the fundamental things still apply, as time goes by

  2 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 11.02.21

As live arts migrate to the screen, Claire Lefèvre wonders whether a book might more fully register and reawaken the aura of live performance

  5 min

article

Yasen Vasilev | 28.01.21

Don’t just blame Covid for this crisis: restructuring the cultural field had already led to more artists and fewer resources

  12 min

review

Lena Megyeri | 25.01.21

An online premiere from Wim Vandekeybus, Olivier de Sagazan and Charo Calvo that ventures into mythic worlds

  4 min

article

Emily May | 21.01.21

As Covid has brought screened dance and screendance into close proximity, four screendance curators look at the dynamics between them

  9 min

review

Charles A. Catherine | 22.12.20

Edgy performances at the edge of Paris that take us beyond our own horizons

  3 min

review

Evgeny Borisenko | 10.12.20

We Bodies is an hour-long performative question on monsterhood, exorcism, domination, docility – and more

  2 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 27.11.20

What does the viral video of a former dancer with Alzheimer’s disease suggest about the dancer, about disease, about us?

  6 min

review

Oonagh Duckworth | 12.11.20

A rapturous fusion of sensation and motion, imagination and engineering, and body with light

  2 min

article

Clàudia Brufau | 10.11.20

Threads of history – artistic, cultural, personal – lie beyond the exuberant images and costumes of Marcos Morau’s new work Sonoma

  11 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 29.10.20

Anastasio Koukoutas spoke to some recent dance graduates to find out how they feel about their future, in the face of the coronavirus crisis

  8 min

article

Ka Bradley | 27.10.20

Alongside dance documentaries, the new LFF Expanded strand is taking steps into virtual dancing

  12 min

article

Oonagh Duckworth | 27.10.20

A wide ranging exhibition across two museums in Belgium affords fascinating visions of the idea of ‘outsider dance’

  9 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 19.10.20

How a public relay by Italian group kinkaleri turns into a fruitful question: have we become estranged from the world we created?

  4 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 15.10.20

Two Hungarian creators on their response to environmental questions in conception, production and performance of their latest work

  9 min

article

Suzanne Frost | 17.09.20

What do movement directors do? A new collection of interviews shines a light on an overlooked craft

  9 min

review

Oonagh Duckworth | 15.09.20

The intersection of nature with culture – a garden – forms the setting for a site-specific duet by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga

  2 min

review

Emily May | 08.09.20

Choreography through headphones, motionless performance within our heads, self-isolation and fantasy – Faye Driscoll’s ’audio choreography’ gets inside you

  2 min

article

Lucia Fernandez Santoro, Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 03.09.20

A dialogue on content, context and tradition in urban dance at a corona-proof performance season in Amsterdam

  12 min

article

David Pallant | 01.09.20

Rather than longing for the past, some dance artists are using the pandemic crisis to imagine futures for performance

  7 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 27.08.20

The Covid crisis is shifting focus from the international to the regional – but festivals such as Pelzverkehr have already been there for years

  4 min

article

Emily May | 25.08.20

Tanz im August director Virve Sutinen on rethinking the festival for post-pandemic times

  8 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 17.08.20

A public performance ‘practice’ in Athens responded to the coronavirus crisis – but did ‘The Crater’ rethink or recreate its underlying conditions?

  8 min

review

Clàudia Brufau | 03.08.20

Works in mysterious ways: two pieces by Belgian physical theatre company Peeping Tom

  2 min

review

Clàudia Brufau | 01.08.20

Pere Faura’s extravagant tribute to Bob Fosse mixes mortality with showbiz and mundane life

  2 min

article

Ka Bradley | 06.07.20

A rehearsal for a performance that never was: École des Sables’ version of Bausch’s Rite of Spring catches a moment in time

  4 min

article

Cath Carver | 29.06.20

The mix of Covid, digital connectivity and our deep-felt human drive to dance together have reconfigured our dancing spaces

  12 min

article

Emily May | 08.05.20

The offer, the reach and the uses of online dance classes are expanding during lockdown – and beyond?

  7 min

article

Sanjoy Roy | 21.04.20

The coronavirus lockdown induces strange visions of our absence. Dance is an art of presence. Can we reconcile their values for the sake of the future?

  3 min

article

Sanjoy Roy | 16.04.20

Covid-19 is prising reality from normality. What thoughts and feelings arise from this fissure for our Springback network?

  12 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas, Betina Panagiotara, Sanjoy Roy | 31.03.20

A Springback spinoff at the seventh New Choreographers Festival

  9 min

review

Suzanne Frost | 11.03.20

A farce in the fog of post-truth, post-dramatic abstractions… Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Revisor trails a string of questions

  2 min

review

Marie Pons | 03.03.20

Exploring co-existence and ‘becoming-with’, Daniel Linehan’s new group piece radiates radical softness

  2 min

review

Emily May | 13.02.20

A new company are the first contemporary dance show to headline at Berlin’s iconic electronic music venue Funkhaus

  2 min

article

Gaia Clotilde Chernetich | 31.01.20

Dimitris Papaioannou’s first site-specific work for an art gallery, at Collezione Maramotti

  6 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 23.01.20

New voices at the Hungarian platform for performing arts – and new battles over state support and control

  8 min

article

Sanjoy Roy | 20.01.20

Former co-director of Candoco (UK), Stine Nilsen returns to Norway as director of CODA Oslo International Dance Festival

  10 min

review

Yasen Vasilev | 13.12.19

The advocate of ‘post-dance’ performs a solo – hashtagged #lonelyformalism – that reassembles his own choreographies

  2 min

review

Charles A. Catherine | 10.12.19

All rise: choreographer, curtains, dancers and spirit ascend in a piece about worldly bondage and higher powers

  2 min

article

Emily May | 05.12.19

A four-year UK collaboration between Siobhan Davies Dance and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art asks: why take dance into art galleries, and what can happen when you do?

  7 min

translation

Riikka Laakso | 29.11.19

Controlling, uncovering and being the performer’s body, at the 2019 Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts

  5 min

review

Lena Megyeri | 24.11.19

Fearless performers brace themselves in a questing, questioning work by Hodworks (HU) and Theater Bremen (DE)

  2 min

article

Beatrix Joyce | 15.11.19

Berlin curator Léna Szirmay-Kalos on developing new formats for showcasing performance outside the theatre

  8 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 13.11.19

Posting from the POST-DANCE-ING conference in Stockholm 2019, Anna Kozonina asks: how did it work, what did it do?

  10 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 29.10.19

A week of dance at the Edinburgh Fringe, as seen by Lena Megyeri at the 2019 NICritics programme for independent writers

  8 min

review

Claire Lefèvre | 22.10.19

Pitching witch against fairy, Florentina Holzinger’s TANZ bares the corporal discipline and punishment of romantic ballet through brutal parody and spectacular stunts

  2 min

review

Evgeny Borisenko | 07.10.19

You can see the trees on Happy Island. What about the wood?

  2 min

article

Lena Megyeri | 10.09.19

Lena Megyeri reflects on the crisis of objective in contemporary dance at Vienna's contemporary dance festival.

  5 min

article

Róisín O’Brien | 03.09.19

Dance artists at Glasgow’s genre-crossing festival of experimental performance take you beyond performance itself

  5 min

review

Emily May | 30.08.19

A work in which the ordinary surpasses the wonderful leads to wonderings about words

  2 min

review

Annette van Zwoll | 28.08.19

An attempt to heal the trauma of the collective Belfast body produces very mixed results

  2 min

article

Marie Pons | 27.08.19

Performances at the 49th Santarcangelo Festival stir our sense of being and embodiment

  7 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 19.08.19

A choreographic variety of women’s work at ImPulsTanz Vienna

  7 min

article

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen, Clàudia Brufau | 16.08.19

The old made anew: three contemporary choreographers reworking folkloric heritage at Sismògraf Festival

  9 min

article

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 15.08.19

Julidans NEXT offers new opportunities for both artists and audiences

  6 min

article

Yasen Vasilev | 13.08.19

The 12th Antistatic Festival called a #VoteForDance – but how did the performances poll with our reviewer?

  8 min

article

Anna Kozonina | 09.08.19

Orgies, utopias and joyful existence in Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces

  8 min

article

Emily May | 18.07.19

Italian choreographic duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi on powerplay and physical rhetoric – past and present

  5 min

article

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 04.07.19

Name it, hashtag it, experience it… The SPRING festival in Utrecht dives into dance, performance, installation, god, politics, gender – and the future

  8 min

review

Anastasio Koukoutas | 27.06.19

Mouth movement makes for an intriguing choreographic experiment, but Anastasio Koukoutas doesn’t quite swallow it

  2 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 25.06.19

Look, then look again. Anastasio Koukoutas on altering visions in three contemporary dance pieces from Greece

  10 min

review

Jordi Ribot Thunnissen | 19.06.19

What’s the measure of a man? This performance questions what we are even measuring when we say ‘man’

  3 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 29.05.19

At the intersections between the personal and the panoramic – a new generation of dance artists at the Rakete Festival, Vienna

  6 min

article

Annette van Zwoll, Evgeny Borisenko | 02.05.19

Camgirls and drag queens, chatrooms and cabaret: two surprising pieces from a festival of feminist and queer performance

  7 min

review

Alexandra Gray | 23.04.19

An experiment in choreography and staging that is definitely ‘not flamenco’ – but neither is it something else

  2 min

article

Claire Lefèvre | 17.04.19

Up close and personal with a lot of orifices at Vienna’s 30th Imagetanz Festival

  7 min

review

Annette van Zwoll | 06.04.19

Quantum leaps in time… a mysterious world holds on to its secrets

  2 min

review

Ka Bradley | 25.03.19

A double bill that contrasts mental anguish with physical recklessness

  2 min

article

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

  7 min

article

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

article

Sanjoy Roy | 29.01.19

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

  8 min

review

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

translation

Lena Megyeri | 08.01.19

  6 min

article

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

article

Sanjoy Roy | 06.12.18

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

  8 min

article

Yasen Vasilev | 29.11.18

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

  9 min

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 27.11.18

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

  10 min

review

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

article

Marie Pons | 15.11.18

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

  6 min

article

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

article

Evgeny Borisenko, David Pallant, Annette van Zwoll | 25.10.18

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

  9 min

article

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

article

Annette van Zwoll, David Pallant, Evgeny Borisenko | 12.10.18

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

  9 min

review

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

article

Oonagh Duckworth, Francesca Pinder, Yasen Vasilev | 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

review

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

review

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

article

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

article

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

Anna Kaszuba | 07.09.18

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

  2 min

article

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

review

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

review

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

Evgeny Borisenko | 24.07.18

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

  2 min

article

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

article

David Pallant, Evgeny Borisenko, Annette van Zwoll | 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

article

Claire Lefèvre | 16.07.18

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

  5 min

article

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

review

Claire Lefèvre | 06.06.18

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

  2 min

review

Róisín O’Brien | 06.06.18

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

  2 min

review

Anastasio Koukoutas | 06.06.18

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

  2 min

review

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

review

Jelena Mihelčić | 25.03.18

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

  2 min

review

Louise Tanoto | 25.03.18

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

  2 min

article

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

article

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

translation

Anastasio Koukoutas | 25.03.18

A textual exploration of a performative exploration in sound, meaning and time

  6 min

article

Riikka Laakso | 25.03.18

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

  10 min

review

Sebastian Kann | 25.03.18

Assuming the position is at the heart of this physical exploration of erotica

  2 min

review

Clàudia Brufau | 25.03.18

Beautiful as dance can be, is it really any match for the beautiful game?

  2 min

review

Oonagh Duckworth | 24.03.18

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

  2 min

review

Lena Megyeri | 25.02.18

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

  2 min