★★★★✰ Waltz asks many questions which are still relevant eighteen years after the piece was first premiered in Berlin...
Author - Josephine Leask
★★★✰✰ Sally Marie’s show is about female sexuality, love and pleasure. Her main question is how women experience sex now in our female empowered, gender-fluid days of multiple choices. Are we enriched by having it all or just confused?
★★★★✰ In each section of Painter and Flamenco the dancers personify not only the spirit and energy of de Torres’ portraits but also the poetry of his art.
Claudia de Serpa Soares is performing with Sasha Waltz & Guests in Körper on the 1 – 3 March 2018 at London’s Sadler’s Wells – full details www.facebook.com/claudia.d.soares.52 www.sashawaltz.de www.sadlerswells.com Sasha Waltz & Guests return to Sadler’s Wells with the extraordinary Korper, a work which scrutinizes the physical body from multiple social...
★★★✰✰ Shut Down is a hard-hitting work about men. Actually white privileged men. It portrays a bleak landscape of absent fathers, depressed teenagers and confused blokes.
★★✰✰✰ Munyaneza rises to the challenge of the show with her provocative, fearless performance, but it’s still difficult to sit through.
★★★✰✰ Is this depiction of divisive ‘insider/outsider’ British society really a true reflection?
★★★★★ What makes the show so seductive is the smooth and slick integration of visual effects with movement.
★★✰✰✰ Igor and Moreno warn people in the programme notes for Andante that there will be smoke and perfume – lots of it.
★★★★✰ Wrapping up Dance Umbrella, "Shoreditch Takeover" was a celebration of cross-disciplinary work. It featured two dance works, poetry and a film, not to mention a DJ...
★★✰✰✰ Beautiful, calming imagery is not in the vocabulary of Anatomie.
Liz Lerman is an enlightened performer, writer, educator and speaker. A tiny woman with a quietly formidable presence, her lecture was an inspirational manifesto for dance and life.
★★★★✰ Testory is a phenomenal story teller; confessional and intimate, I could listen to his lilting intonations forever.
In at the start of the process Josephine Leask talked to Fevered Sleep’s artistic directors Sam Butler and David Harradine about re-staging "Men and Girls" for Tate Britain. It's an emotive and challenging work to present to an unsuspecting passing audience...
★★★✰✰ Conti and Nilsen explore the space, the installation and each other’s forms without making direct contact, their interaction always mediated by a panel of glass or steel meshing.
★★★★✰ A Matter of Impression is touching and riveting while Sardoville is a company that exudes energy, skill and inquisitive minds.