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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
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Helsinki’s Moving in November: pasts, pleasures, projections
Anna Kozonina selects from and reflects on the latest edition of Helsinki’s long-standing international festival
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The splatter dance of Smac McCreanor
Splay, squash, splash, shatter… Smac McCreanor’s twisted replications of objects breaking under pressure are comic, relatable – and addictive
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Embodied literature: an interview with Ben Duke
On blending literature, theatre and dance – Ben Duke talks about storytelling, embodiment and the classics
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Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid: a chronicle from within
Jordi Ribot takes a look into and around the long-standing, many-armed Spanish choreography platform
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Interview: Mette Ingvartsen on The Dancing Public
Choreomanias, contagious movement and collectivity – Mette Ingvartsen delves into the background to her new solo
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Keeping on track: a European culture trip by train
Can we opt for rail tracks instead of flight trails? Springback editor Sanjoy Roy gave it a go – and shares some practical and life lessons from the experience
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Lia Rodrigues, body and soul
Based in a Rio favela and fêted in Paris, Lia Rodrigues brings different yet connected works to this year’s Festival d’Automne
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Blow-Up
Blowing up the final scene of Antonioni’s notorious film to reveal the games of reality and representation
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Silvia Gribaudi: Monjour
A troupe of men with hands for fig-leaves are ‘just for you’ in a performance that is both bittersweet and perplexing
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Czech Dance Platform 2021
Lena Megyeri at the bumper edition of the Tanec Praha’s Czech Dance Platform

























