Emily May, Author at Springback Magazine

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Emily May, Germany

Emily May is a British-born, Berlin-based arts writer and editor specialising in dance and performance. An alumna of Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance and a member of the Dance Section of the UK Critics' Circle, she regularly contributes to publications including The Times Literary Supplement, Frieze, ArtReview, Kinfolk, Dance Magazine, Pointe, The Stage, and Springback Magazine, as well as organisations such as The Royal Opera House and The Royal Academy of Dance. Emily also produces and hosts the Terpsichore podcast, interviewing leading women from the dance industry about their lives, careers, and the female dance pioneers that inspire them. Guests have included Siobhan Davies, Andrea Miller, Oona Doherty, Aditi Mangaldas, and Shobana Jeyasingh. Since 2021, Emily has led editorial projects at the music and culture platform COLORSxSTUDIOS.

www.emilymay.uk

Media by Emily May

Claire Cunningham, Songs of the Wayfarer. © Sven Hagolani

review

Claire Cunningham: Songs of the Wayfarer

Cherish Menzo, Darkmatter. Photo © Bas de Brouwer

review, article

Eyes on Tanz im August 2023

A crowd of bodies of various genders, near nude, all whirling around in different states of action and agitation. The lighting is dark, and a metal scaffold looms in the background

review

Home and away at the Venice Dance Biennale

Two figures suspended in the air, one upright, one upside down, balancing on long rods also suspended from the ceiling, in a geometrical but asymmetrical formation. The tone is grey, and behing they their grey shadows are cast against the wall

review

An angle on Czech Dance Platform 2023

Cecilia Bengolea’s La Danse des Éléments, at a former steelworks in Esch, Luxembourg. Photo © Eike Walkenhorst

review, article

Cecilia Bengolea: La Danse des Éléments

The upper body of a woman against a dark background. She wears an orange t-shirt beneath a brown jacket, sleeves rolled up, her hands splayed against her chest. Her face, hair and hands are heavily caked with wet plaster

article

Embodied literature: an interview with Ben Duke

Woman in black with long arc of hair as she leans her body to the left, against a brick wall backdrop

review

Isabelle Schad: Pieces and Elements / FUR

IG cover image of @somatic_based_content_only: crude eyes and mouth drawn on top of rainbow coloured images of dancers bodies in leotards

article

The memeing of dance

recording video on iPad

article

Screening times

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Screening times (audio)

A moment from the rooftop dance scene in the final episode of Giri/Haji

article

Dance+: Giri/Haji

Faye Driscoll. Photo © Maria Baranova

review

Faye Driscoll: Guided Choreography for the Living and the Dead

Dissemination Everywhere! – a ‘radio ballet’ by Hamburg-based collective LIGNA. Photo © Christian Altorfer

article

Unknown waters: Berlin’s Tanz im August after Covid

young woman doing exercise with laptop

article

The rise of the online dance class in lockdown

KDV Dance Ensemble in Las Casas Invisibles at Funkhaus, Berlin. Photo © Jubal Battisti

review

KDV Dance Ensemble: Las Casas Invisibles

Lucy Suggate’s Spirit Compass, at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK. Photo © Tui Makkonen

article

The Continuous Network: capillary action of dance into galleries

Naturalistic movement and spoken word: Gunilla Heilborn’s The Ordinary and The Wonderful.

review

Gunilla Heilborn: The Wonderful and The Ordinary

Enrico Ticconi and Ginevra Panzetti, pointing fingers in dance film Actio (2102)

article

Already there? An interview with Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi

DREAM by Alessandro Sciarroni. © Claudia Pajewski

review

Exploring the Tanz im August archipelago

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Czech Dance Platform 2022: two views