The Guardian


  • Botis Seva: Blkdog

    The choreographer draws on his own experiences to create a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory


  • Yorke Dance Project: Past Present

    Yolande Yorke-Edgell and company join the dots between the founder-mother of American modern dance Martha Graham and the late Robert Cohan


  • Ballet Black: Then or Now / The Waiting Game

    Will Tuckett makes visual poetry of love, war and the work of Adrienne Rich, while Mthuthuzeli November journeys to a glitter-coated land of showtime


  • Lanre Malaolu: ‘I asked myself: what will you pass on?’

    An interview with young actor, director and film-maker Lanre Malaolu about Black masculinity and his new work Samskara


  • Candoco: Set and Reset/Reset, Last Shelter

    Candoco fit into the working wonders of Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset, but it’s a harder ask for Jeanine Durning’s new Last Shelter


  • Didy Veldman/Humanoove: @Home

    Actions speak louder than words as a talented cast take a guided tour of our most intimate relations


  • James Cousins Company: We Are As Gods

    Some 70 dancers reacquaint audiences with the BAC building in a sumptuous feast from James Cousins Company


  • Sung Im Her: W.A.Y (re-work)

    The Korean choreographer’s all-female re-working of this 2019 piece builds patterns and variations to an ecstatic finale


  • Hofesh Shechter: Double Murder

    Hofesh Shechter double bill of Clowns, which lambasts our seeming indifference to violence, and a tender antidote called The Fix


  • Rosie Kay Dance Company: Romeo and Juliet

    Taking elements of contemporary, hip-hop, classical Indian and streetdance, Rosie Kay’s version of Shakespeare has a clamour of activity and ideas