Transfigured Night is a piece I could watch many times and find new things in...
Archive - November 2015
This month Jarkko blogs on the OuDance Festival and taking dance out and across the whole city. Good stuff and much learned...
Exit / Exist is Gregory Maqoma’s reflections on the story of his ancestor, Chief Maqoma, who faced up to the British in South Africa in the 19th century...
The central conceit is unchanged; Byrd riffs on the format of the minstrel show, a revue-style entertainment that predated vaudeville and included dancing, low comedy, variety acts. White actors performed in blackface, creating broad parodies of what they perceived as African American archetypes...
Calling it a dance performance might be pushing it, to be honest, as there’s little actual dance... Instead, it’s more of a slick live art installation...
Like the novelist who writes a best-seller first time out, whatever Kate Prince goes on to create in the future, she’ll always struggle to match the brilliance of her first full-length show - Into the Hoods...