Dance Umbrella’s “The Future Bursts In” at Linbury Theatre celebrates Merce Cunningham
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Read MoreLisa Marie Bowler is a London-based writer, translator, editor, and dramaturg specializing in dance. She worked at Sadler’s Wells for several years before completing her Ph.D. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich with a thesis on the phenomenology of theatre architecture. Together with Emma Gladstone and dance dramaturg Guy Cools she published the body: language series of talks with choreographers, dancers, and artists. In 2014 she participated in the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University, and from 2016 to 2017 she was on the Executive Committee of the Dramaturgs’ Network. Currently, she coordinates Creative Europe–funded large-scale cooperation project Dance On, Pass On, Dream On.
Posted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 8th Dec 2019 | Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 5th Dec 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 24th Nov 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
For the last three years, dance maker and artist Freddie Opoku-Addaie has been a guest programmer...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 28th Oct 2019 | Dance Umbrella 2019, London, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
The opening of the annual Dance Umbrella Festival of international contemporary dance in London...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 23rd Oct 2018 | Dance Umbrella 2018, Festivals, London, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
The platform stage erected in Shoreditch Town Hall’s grand Victorian assembly room is receiving a...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Marie Bowler | 17th Oct 2018 | Dance Umbrella 2018, Festivals, London, New York, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
As a passionate Londoner, I cannot help but be intrigued: a group of Americans is here to present...
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