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Ultima Vez: Hands do not touch your precious Me
An online premiere from Wim Vandekeybus, Olivier de Sagazan and Charo Calvo that ventures into mythic worlds


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


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


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Wanjiru Kamuyu, An Immigrant’s Story; Smaïl Kanouté, Never Twenty One
Edgy performances at the edge of Paris that take us beyond our own horizons


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Teresa Vittucci, Michael Turinsky, Claire Vivianne Sobottke: We Bodies
We Bodies is an hour-long performative question on monsterhood, exorcism, domination, docility – and more


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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing (audio)
Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?


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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing
Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?


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Visible and erased: the case of the ‘Alzheimer’s ballerina’
What does the viral video of a former dancer with Alzheimer’s disease suggest about the dancer, about disease, about us?


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


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Adrien M & Claire B: Faire corps
A rapturous fusion of sensation and motion, imagination and engineering, and body with light


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


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The leap into the abyss and the need to heal again
Anastasio Koukoutas spoke to some recent dance graduates to find out how they feel about their future, in the face of the coronavirus crisis


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Dancing virtually into the London Film Festival
Alongside dance documentaries, the new LFF Expanded strand is taking steps into virtual dancing


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Danser Brut – outsider dance
A wide ranging exhibition across two museums in Belgium gives fascinating visions of the idea of ‘outsider dance’


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Dance+: Act of Love
Animal courtship dances transformed into human choreography by Russell Maliphant, to advertise condoms


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


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Domokos Kovács & Petra Nagy: Do not feed the polar bears
Two Hungarian creators on their response to environmental questions in conception, production and performance of their latest work


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


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To sit or not to sit? The question of movement direction
What do movement directors do? A new collection of interviews shines a light on an overlooked craft


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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Radouan Mriziga: 3ird5@w9rk
The intersection of nature with culture – a garden – forms the setting for a site-specific duet by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mrisiziga


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


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Talkabout: Urban dance languages at Peepshow Palace
A dialogue on content, context and tradition in urban dance at a corona-proof performance season in Amsterdam


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


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Local leads the way: Pelzverkehr Festival, Austria
The Covid crisis is shifting focus from the international to the regional – but festivals such as Pelzverkehr have already been there for years


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Unknown waters: Berlin’s Tanz im August after Covid
Tanz im August director Virve Sutinen on rethinking the festival for post-pandemic times


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Being together apart: the hollowing of the post-quarantine public
A public performance ‘practice’ in Athens responded to the coronavirus crisis – but did ‘The Crater’ rethink or recreate its underlying conditions?


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Dance+: Protein synthesis – an epic on the cellular level
A mind-blowing, free-spirited dance film that is both scientifically exact and culturally far out


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Peeping Tom: The Missing Door, The Lost Room
Works in mysterious ways: two pieces by Belgian physical theatre company Peeping Tom


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


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


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www DANCE: partying from IRL to URL
The mix of Covid, digital connectivity and our deep-felt human drive to dance together have reconfigured our dancing spaces


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


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


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Strange times
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?


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


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New Choreographers Festival Athens
A Springback spinoff at the seventh New Choreographers Festival


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


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


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


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KDV Dance Ensemble: Las Casas Invisibles
A new company are the first contemporary dance show to headline at Berlin’s iconic electronic music venue Funkhaus


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A stage in the gallery: Dimitris Papaioannou’s Sisyphus/Trans/Form
Dimitris Papaioannou’s first site-specific work for an art gallery, at Collezione Maramotti


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On and off the platform: dunaPart5, Hungary
New voices at the Hungarian platform for performing arts – and new battles over state support and control


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From company dancer to co-director to CODA: an interview with Stine Nilsen
Former co-director of Candoco (UK), Stine Nilsen returns to Norway as director of CODA Oslo International Dance Festival


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Mårten Spångberg: 46
The advocate of ‘post-dance’ performs a solo – hashtagged #lonelyformalism – that reassembles his own choreographies


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


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The Continuous Network: capillary action of dance into galleries
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?


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Dance+: Dancing in the schoolyard
T-step on the tarmac? An innovative school principal goes viral with his plan to get kids moving

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PT19: On being, enduring and becoming the performing body
Controlling, uncovering and being the performer’s body, at the 2019 Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts


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Hodworks & Unusual Symptoms: Coexist
Fearless performers brace themselves in a questing, questioning work by Hodworks (HU) and Theater Bremen (DE)


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Moving audiences: the Montag Modus event series
Berlin curator Léna Szirmay-Kalos on developing new formats for showcasing performance outside the theatre


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


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


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Dance+: Kung Fu Hustle
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…


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


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La Ribot / Dançando com a Diferença: Happy Island
You can see the trees on Happy Island. What about the wood?


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New directions home? ImPulsTanz 2019
Lena Megyeri reflects on the crisis of objective in contemporary dance at Vienna's contemporary dance festival.


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Radical empathy and real engagement: Take Me Somewhere 2019
Dance artists at Glasgow’s genre-crossing festival of experimental performance take you beyond performance itself


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Gunilla Heilborn: The Wonderful and The Ordinary
A work in which the ordinary surpasses the wonderful leads to wonderings about words


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Oona Doherty: Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer
An attempt to heal the trauma of the collective Belfast body produces very mixed results


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Slow and gentle: Santarcangelo Festival 2019
Performances at the 49th Santarcangelo Festival stir our sense of being and embodiment


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


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Six of their sex: female dancemakers at ImPulsTanz 2019
A choreographic variety of women’s work at ImPulsTanz Vienna


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Earth moves: contemporary roots at Sismògraf festival
The old made anew: three contemporary choreographers reworking folkloric heritage at Sismògraf Festival


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Julidans NEXT, Amsterdam: performers steal the show
Julidans NEXT offers new opportunities for both artists and audiences


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Vote for dance: Antistatic Festival 2019, Bulgaria
The 12th Antistatic Festival called a #VoteForDance – but how did the performances poll with our reviewer?


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Hack me tender: Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces
Orgies, utopias and joyful existence in Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces


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


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Already there? An interview with Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi
Italian choreographic duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi on powerplay and physical rhetoric – past and present


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SPRING Utrecht 2019: ‘In many ways, the future is already here’
Name it, hashtag it, experience it… The SPRING festival in Utrecht dives into dance, performance, installation, god, politics, gender – and the future


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


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


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Caught in the act of seeing
Look, then look again. Anastasio Koukoutas on altering visions in three contemporary dance pieces from Greece


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Nicole Beutler Projects: 8: Metamorphoses
What’s the measure of a man? This performance questions what we are even measuring when we say ‘man’


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Dance+: Echoes, Ode to Silence
Andres Arochi’s short film uses dance to revisit Luis Barragán’s masterpiece of modernist architecture


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Rakete Festival 2019: from Mama to Mother Earth
At the intersections between the personal and the panoramic – a new generation of dance artists at the Rakete Festival, Vienna


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Queer Darlings 2019, Sophiensaele Berlin
Camgirls and drag queens, chatrooms and cabaret: two surprising pieces from a festival of feminist and queer performance


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Albert Quesada & Zoltán Vakulya: OneTwoThreeOneTwo
An experiment in choreography and staging that is definitely ‘not flamenco’ – but neither is it something else


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Imagetanz 2019
Up close and personal with a lot of orifices at Vienna’s 30th Imagetanz Festival


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Dance+: La Joie de Vivre
Wedged between independence and genocide, a Cambodian dance scene shows that loving life is precious – and takes practice


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At work: Jesús Rubio Gamo
‘It was dance and music that saved me from loneliness.’ Spanish choreographer Jesús Rubio Gamo talks about the turning point that led to the creation of Gran Bolero (2019)


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Jefta van Dinther: The Quiet
Quantum leaps in time… a mysterious world holds on to its secrets


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Yukiko Masui / Léa Tirabasso
A double bill that contrasts mental anguish with physical recklessness


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


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Dance+: Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Toil and trouble brews in a cavernous, covenous dance company


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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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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?

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