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Renata Piotrowska-Auffret with her skeleton in Death: Exercises and Variations. Photo: Marta-Ankiersztejn

O Death, where is thy spring?

8 May 2017

Dance macabre with skeleton: Renata Piotrwoska-Auffret sidesteps the usual gendered depictions of dance and death
Jakop Ahlbom's Horror. Photo: Anna Karczmarz

Monster mashup: the terrifying tribute to horror films from The Exorcist to Ring

27 April 2017

Jakop Ahlbom combines stage magic with references to classic scary movies in a cult show that returns the horror genre to the theatre
English National Ballet in Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring. Photo: Laurent Liotardo

William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Pina Bausch: brief biographical notes

23 March 2017

Brief biographies of three choreographers for English National Ballet's triple bill
Sooraj Subramaniam and Shailesh Bahoran in Shobana Jeyasingh's Material Men redux. Photo: Chris Nash

Shobana Jeyasingh’s Material Men Redux: programme note

7 February 2017

Programme note for Shobana Jeyasingh's Material Men Redux

The closure of the Ravel museum would be an act of cultural sabotage

6 February 2017

The rare and enchanting Maurice Ravel Museum was abruptly closed, esteemed visitors turned away and its long-time guardian summarily dismissed. We should be reviving its fortunes, not allowing it to decline further.
Iain Mackay, the Royal Academy of Dance's first Male Dance Ambassador, teaching a boys' class.

Boys don’t cry

4 November 2016

Do boys still have a problem with dance? Is ballet especially daunting? I meet ballet boys, b-boys and superheroes.
Aditi Mangaldas Company. Photo: Nirvair Singh

Aditi Mangaldas

30 August 2016

An interview with Indian dancer-choreographer Aditi Mangaldas, prior to her UK tour starting at Dance Umbrella festival, London
Michael Hulls’ LightSpace.

Light takes the lead

Lighting maestros Michael Hulls and Lucy Carter illuminate No Body at Sadler's Wells
Jasna Vinovrski at Spring Forward 2016.

Subject–verb: on solos and sentences

24 May 2016

On subject, action and number in dance, and in writing about dance
Natalie Portman haunts herself… as ballerina Nina in Darren Aronofksy's Black Swan

A frisson of the forbidden: dance and horror

1 May 2016

Is dance horror a Thing? I peek through my fingers at stage and screen, both riveted and repulsed by what I see…
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    25 May 2017
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  • Polyphony, playing and politics: the many voices of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
    6 December 2018
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    6 December 2018
  • Kicking and screaming: how dance became cinema’s biggest boogieman
    22 November 2018
  • Shobana Jeyasingh: Contagion
    22 October 2018

 

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