“Chicago:” Presenting Crime as a Show
Chicago combines passion, adultery, crime, murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation and...
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Theatre and Dance
“Queen-Size:” Blurring the Lines Between Public and Private
Single Performance: Queen-Size, by Sandbox Collective, a dance-performance at Spaces, Chennai,...
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Willy Tsao: Hong Kong’s Dance Pioneer Embraces the Mainland
If anyone is responsible for Hong Kong’s contemporary dance scene, it’s Willy Tsao. Forty years...
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Bodily Dressage: Cruel and Optimistic Pleasures of the Speaking and Moving Body
Researcher and critic Lisa Moravec explores how two performances of this year’s ImPulsTanz,...
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“Inchoate Buzz:” A Testing Ground for Interaction and Interdisciplinarity
How far can bodily interaction amongst the audience members, with performance objects, and with...
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Dance on Screen. Three Moments from the 58th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia
Artists from three different and fairly distant parts of the world — Australia, Brazil and...
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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,...
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Dance Umbrella Celebrates Merce Cunningham Centenary with “The Future Bursts In” at the Linbury Theatre in London
Within ten seconds, I am in love. Three men have taken off their shoes at the side of a white,...
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“VAST” Uses Physical Theatre to Drive Home the Point that Man Longs for Nature
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in...
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Dance Umbrella’s “Out of the System” at Bernie Grant Arts Centre
For the last three years, dance maker and artist Freddie Opoku-Addaie has been a guest programmer...
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An Expansive and Permeating Work Embracing Death and Humanity: A Paradox for Our Times: Gregory Maqoma – “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero”
In darkness, a quiet sobbing, acutely intimate in the vastness of the Barbican main stage. Now...
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Longing for New and Mysterious Worlds at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet
Ballet Alice in Wonderland, and operas Carmen, Die Tote Stadt, and Das Rheingold. At the Finnish...
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“Palermo Palermo.” Now, Then and After
Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo has a full-house. To the right, left and up in the surrounding...
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Interview with Compagnie Dyptik
Founded in 2012 by two breakdancers, Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari, Compagnie Dyptik is...
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“Augustine’s Dream:” A Work in Development
Augustine’s Dream was presented in July 2019 at the Providence Fringe by AnomalousCo. An...
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Living Skill At Work
In order to analyze the concepts “skill”, “artistry” and “virtuosity” within the performing arts,...
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Isadora Duncan and “The Figurative Arts in Italy:” An Exhibition Review.
During summer 2019, Villa Bardini in Florence was the home of A Passi Di Danza. Isadora Duncan e...
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Anima and Animus. Lucy Guerin: “Split.” The Place, London, Dance Umbrella 2019 Festival.
Lucy Guerin is one of the most innovative, postmodern choreographers on the contemporary dance...
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The “Vessel” in which Dance and Sculpture Meet
Vessel. 26-27 October 2019. OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia. Now in its twelfth year,...
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A Quietly Bold Statement from a New Artist with a Lot to Tell: Oona Doherty’s “Hard to be Soft” at Dance Umbrella Festival at Southbank Centre, London
My senses are all awakened. It begins in the darkness. A curl of smoke rises from a dimly lit bowl...
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