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Baltic Dance Platform 2022: from intimate to social
Dance platforms may be designed for professional development, but the art itself is their lifeblood. Anna Kozonina takes its temperature at Baltic Dance Platform 2022
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Presente Futuro 2022
A performing arts festival in Sicily that nurtures and rewards young artists – but is it enough?
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Dominio Pubblico: Senza Titolo Festival 2022
Rome’s ‘untitled’ youth arts festival strikes chords with young people’s complex experiences of unentitlement
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Czech Dance Platform 2022: two views
All of Czech Dance Platform 2022 in 40 minutes, divided into two viewpoints
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Danse Élargie: almost ridding dance of its borders
Who were the hits, also-rans and could-haves/should-haves at the international Danse Élargie competition for new choreography?
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What makes a performance contemporary?
Three works at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels take forms that articulate complexities of the world today
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Alice Ripoll: Lavagem
Buckets, cleaning cloths, soap and water become implements of joyous resistance
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Cecilia Bengolea: La Danse des Éléments
Awakening connections between dance, art, industrialism and personal history
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Noé Soulier, Thea Djordjadze, Karl Naegelen: First Memory
An artistic alliance configures everyday movement and moveable panels – to what end?
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Schweigman& and DOX: Eros
Will chocolate and floral flavours in an industrial building form the gateway to a sisterly rite of passage?
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Zsófia Tamara Vadas, Csaba Molnár, Imre Vass: Game Changer
Changing the rules of performance – while staying on the same pitch?
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La Grande Bellezza
The bump of lust and the grind of vacuity form ‘the great beauty’ that prefigures our times
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A necessary transformation: the performing arts and VR in Taiwan
Covid and climate change have accelerated the creation of VR and performance hybrids, especially in Taiwan
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Moving Colors youth dance festival
A youngster helps out our grownup at a Greek festival of contemporary dance for youth audiences
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The dreamspaces of dance and narrative cinema coincide in the unreal romance of Charlie Kaufman’s film
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Tanztage Berlin 2022: Hard times require hard dancing
Tomorrow is the question. How does dance move with and through the end of times?
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Lost Dog: A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens’ bulky, tangled tale boiled down to a soup of familial deception…
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Swiss Dance Days 2022
The Swiss dance platform is a cocktail of art, culture and dance… but which mixes hit the spot for Charles A. Catherine?
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Live and layered: London International Mime Festival 2022
Channelled online in last year’s edition, LIMF 2022 reopens its many-faced, multi-sensory playground of live communication
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Isabelle Schad: practice, continuity and infinite limbs
German choreographer Isabelle Schad, on Eastern philosophy, somatics and folk dance

























