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House of Jazz is a resource for professional dancers, keeping dancers sharp, adaptable, and ready for the demands of the industry: essentially a hub of some of the best dance talent in London. Their Community Cabaret is one of many events they hold to allow their artists to grow and develop. Many of the artists used the cabaret to explore new disciplines: choreographing, songwriting, or experimenting with interdisciplinary forms.

Lucy Partridge unpacks the versatility and the enduring influence of the polka-dot.

However, if LACRIMA was intended to serve as a dissection of the haute couture world, an intense exploration of both its beauty and brutality, ultimately it falls short, a production that relies so heavily on melodrama and immense scale that it loses the very humanity it seeks to celebrate.

Photo by Emily Henman Despite only being 22 years old and a full-time student, Hannah Bowker’s been making a name for herself for quite some time. She’s a photographer focused on fashion and portraiture, using strong attention to detail and artistic flair to create a striking body of work. It’s no wonder that this has caught the eye of several major modelling agencies across both London and her home town of Cape Town. Ahead of her last year at St. Andrews studying Neuroscien

In India, I watched my grandmother reuse glass jars, mend clothes until they were threadbare, and compost food scraps without ever calling it ‘sustainability.’ In the UAE, I saw consumption at its peak, with towering malls and fast fashion stores promising endless novelty. And in London, I’ve seen both the urgency of climate action and the energy of young people working collectively to make change.

Unfortunately, the pacing of the show makes it difficult to believe the genuine depth of Lucy and Henry’s romance at first, as the directors/writers have ambitiously attempted to keep the musical’s running time the same as the film’s. Moreover, the sacrifices and grief of Lucy’s family (only examined in “Stay Away”), who every day painstakingly recreate the same day for Lucy, could have been explored more deeply if the show were longer.

Ann Marie Fleming is a Canadian filmmaker and visual artist whose award-winning films play with visual mediums and have won the hearts of many. Her recent film, ‘Can I Get A Witness?’ was named on Toronto International Film Festival’s Canada’s Top Ten list in 2024.

Photo by Daria Slikker O2 Brixton has always had a way of transforming into whatever world the artist chooses, and for Lord Huron, that world was dipped in purple light, romance, and a dreamlike sense of timelessness. The stage itself set the tone before a single note was played: a shimmering, silver, tinsel-looking curtain hung like the backdrop of a high-school prom, and a jukebox stood alone on the left side of the stage, waiting like a relic of memory. The effect was inst

While our pricey seminars become places of roaring anti-capitalist sentiments, we go back to our over-priced London houses/flats/student accommodations and spasmodically embrace our phones - a device harbouring capitalist vices. Micro-trends, endless advertisements, and dystopian feeds that broadcast genocide and celebrity or influencer opulence simultaneously.

Aaliyah dissects the links between club culture and hook-up culture.