DANCE

Celebrating An Oft-Overlooked Genre: Reviewing 'Crazy Smooth: In My Body' at the Southbank Centre

Moments of vulnerability offer personal accounts of the problems that embroil a dance career: ageing, motherhood, and injury.

A New Kind of Kathak - Reviewing 'Aunusthan' by the Pagrav Dance Company

The warm buzz upon entering the Place Theatre created an atmospheric contrast with the early November chill outside. Little girls,...

'Bring It On' at Southbank Centre

Southbank Centre’s latest addition at Queen Elizabeth Hall features a powerful musical based on the 2000’s cult classic Bring It On. At...

'Kattam Katti': Celebrating India's Uttarayan Kite Festival at Sadler's Wells

Uttarayan is a famous kite festival that takes place in Gujarat, a state in North India. Every year, people of all ages, gender, religion...

'Just Us Dance presents', VAULT Festival 2020 - The Vaults

Just Us Dance presents is a raw and powerful hip hop response to Joseph Toonga’s 2019 work Born to Manifest. The performers, each between...

'13 Tongues & Dust', Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - Sadler's Wells

The show begins with a single dancer slowly banging a drum-like object: the audience’s attention is captured from the outset. Live...

'Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók’s "Duke Bluebeard’s Castle&q

A hush comes over the audience at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. On stage, a suit-clad man reaches for a tape recorder. A woman in a...

'Cowpuncher My Ass' - Southbank Centre

Cowpuncher My Ass is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Taking cues from London and the American West, this explosive dance show creates...

'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' - Royal Opera House

When Alice’s Adventures Under Ground first premiered a few years back, the thought of this frenzied and fraught production finding a home...

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