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

article

Ka Bradley | 23.02.21

Double trouble in the climactic dance scene of Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror Us

  4 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

Anastasio Koukoutas | 02.02.21

Dance brings a moment of presence within the waking dream of a world adrift

  4 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

Sanjoy Roy | 08.12.20

Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?

  6 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

article

Emily May | 17.11.20

The BBC/Netflix crime drama Giri/Haji is another sign of mainstream media turning to contemporary dance for inspiration and innovation

  4 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

Stella Mastorosteriou | 22.10.20

Animal courtship dances transformed into human choreography by Russell Maliphant, to advertise condoms

  4 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

Anastasio Koukoutas | 24.09.20

In Wes Anderson’s 2012 film, two runaway pre-teens dance on the empty beach of an unknown land called love

  4 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

article

Sanjoy Roy | 11.08.20

A mind-blowing, free-spirited dance film that is both scientifically exact and culturally far out

  4 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

Ka Bradley | 19.06.20

A solitary dance becomes a rite of transformation in Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker

  4 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

article

Ka Bradley | 19.03.20

Gaspar Noé’s Climax is thrilling, stylish and harrowing. Its story is prefigured in the extraordinary opening dance scene

  4 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

article

Stella Mastorosteriou | 02.12.19

T-step on the tarmac? An innovative school principal goes viral with his plan to get kids moving

  3 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

article

Ka Bradley | 23.10.19

Slick, stylish, violent… the Axe Gang in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle know how to cut a figure on the dance floor – and off it…

  4 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

Anastasio Koukoutas | 23.08.19

A tango scene in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together invites our hearts into the spaces between separation and togetherness, fiction and reality

  4 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

Róisín O’Brien | 06.08.19

In place and out of time: dance anachronisms in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite (2018) are part of a fickle world

  4 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

article

Anastasio Koukoutas | 02.07.19

The distorting mirror of dance reflects an intimate reality of adolescent vulnerability in Dogtooth (2009)

  4 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

Cath Carver | 06.06.19

Andres Arochi’s short film uses dance to revisit Luis Barragán’s masterpiece of modernist architecture

  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

article

Ka Bradley | 15.04.19

Wedged between independence and genocide, a Cambodian dance scene shows that loving life is precious – and takes practice

  4 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

Jelena Mihelčić | 01.03.19

Toil and trouble brews in a cavernous, covenous dance company

  3 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

article

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

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

translation

  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

Anastasio 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

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

Stella Mastorosteriou | 20.11.18

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

  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

Daniel Pitt | 06.11.18

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

  6 min

article

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

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

article

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

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

article

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

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

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

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