Editor

Sanjoy Roy, United Kingdom

Sanjoy Roy has written on dance for the Guardian since 2002, and contributed to many other publications including the New Statesman, Dance Gazette, Dancing Times, and he is London correspondent for Dance International magazine. He was formerly production editor and book designer for Dance Books Ltd. He wrote the Guardian's popular Step by step guides to dance, and conceived and scripted the much-loved animation series Planet Dance: a visitor's guide to contemporary dance. He has been a writing mentor at Springback Academy since 2014.

He keeps an archive of his writing at sanjoyroy.net.

Media by Sanjoy Roy
Read Icon tanzmainz ensemble in Moritz Ostruschnjak’s Trailer Park. Photo © Andreas Etter

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Moritz Ostruschnjak: Trailer Park

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CODA 2022: staging diversities

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Keeping on track: a European culture trip by train

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Dance classes through the screen

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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing (audio)

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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing

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Dance+: Protein synthesis – an epic on the cellular level

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Strange times

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A virus in the system

Read Icon Stine Nilsen, the new director at CODA Oslo International Dance Festival

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From company dancer to co-director to CODA: an interview with Stine Nilsen

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Taiwan Dance Platform 2018

Read Icon A composite body in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Babel. Photo © Maarten Van Den Abeele

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Polyphony, playing and politics: the many voices of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

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Dansathon: an international dance hackathon

Read Icon Jefta van Dinther Dark Field Analysis. Photo © Ben Mergelsberg

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Jefta van Dinther: Dark Field Analysis

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The wilderness within

Read Icon In a dark room, a man is slipping off an armchair, looking upwards at the woman who has leaned forward to kiss - the armchair, not the man

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Mime Time

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Czech Dance Platform 2022: two views

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Live and layered: London International Mime Festival 2022

Read Icon Iro Vasalou, Becoming with Animal. Photo © Andreas Simopoulos

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New Choreographers Festival Athens