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Protein Dance: En Route
An antidote to digital dislocation, guided experiences such as Protein’s En Route reconnect us with place and presence
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Isabelle Schad: Pieces and Elements / FUR
Slow, steady, serene – an open-air double bill by German choreographer Isabelle Schad
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Going forward to normal
Italian choreographer Michele Di Stefano on curation, choreography and the possibility of a ‘new normal’ for dance
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Strange Russian dances
What is happening in experimental choreography in Moscow and Saint Petersburg?
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SPRING Festival Utrecht: ‘Seen live, with love, Jordi’
A letter to and two postcards from ‘test events’ for the reawakening of live performance
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Skype, crutches and pleasurable glitches
Collaborators Tanja Erhart and Katharina Senk talk about multi-sensorial connection, technological pleasures and the aesthetics of access
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The memeing of dance
Dance memes may be common, but few emerge from within the contemporary dance world. Enter Mr Felden Krisis…
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Jan Martens: any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
A stripped down but hyperkinetic composition invokes a collective will
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Marion Darova & Martina Apostolova: WO MAN
Strict forms and unsettling imagery combine to dissolve gender identity
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Mulholland Drive
Dance can slip through the nets of convention and identity – just like the films of David Lynch
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Dance classes through the screen
Springback experiences of what works (or doesn’t) as online class participants
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Ann Van den Broek: Creating Joy
A polished kinetic, aural and videographic walk around joy, guided by Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Broek
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Present futures
Going digital in 2020 has been a natural step for a festival founded to hybridise physical and virtual realms
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Guest episode: dis[]tanz podcast
Observing and considering how a performance-protest in Athens came to inhabit both the real and the online worlds
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Hamid Ben Mahi: Chronic(s) 2
Revisiting a work twenty years on, hip hop dance artist Hamid Ben Mahi finds that the fundamental things still apply, as time goes by
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Beyond the visual: Johanna Hedva’s Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain
As live arts migrate to the screen, Claire Lefèvre wonders whether a book might more fully register and reawaken the aura of live performance
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Thessaloniki Cinedance International 2020
In a city with a reputation for film festivals, the third Thessaloniki Cinedance International festival focuses on artistic crossover
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Circulating artists, defunded infrastructures
Don’t just blame Covid for this crisis: restructuring the cultural field had already led to more artists and fewer resources
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Ultima Vez: Hands do not touch your precious Me
An online premiere from Wim Vandekeybus, Olivier de Sagazan and Charo Calvo that ventures into mythic worlds
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Screening times
As Covid has brought screened dance and screendance into close proximity, four screendance curators look at the dynamics between them
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Wanjiru Kamuyu, An Immigrant’s Story; Smaïl Kanouté, Never Twenty One
Edgy performances at the edge of Paris that take us beyond our own horizons
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Teresa Vittucci, Michael Turinsky, Claire Vivianne Sobottke: We Bodies
We Bodies is an hour-long performative question on monsterhood, exorcism, domination, docility – and more
















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