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Sands of time: capturing Bausch’s Rite of Spring before lockdown
A rehearsal for a performance that never was: École des Sables’ version of Bausch’s Rite of Spring catches a moment in time
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www DANCE: partying from IRL to URL
The mix of Covid, digital connectivity and our deep-felt human drive to dance together have reconfigured our dancing spaces
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The rise of the online dance class in lockdown
The offer, the reach and the uses of online dance classes are expanding during lockdown – and beyond?
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Strange times
The coronavirus lockdown induces strange visions of our absence. Dance is an art of presence. Can we reconcile their values for the sake of the future?
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A virus in the system
Covid-19 is prising reality from normality. What thoughts and feelings arise from this fissure for our Springback network?
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Gaspar Noé: Climax
Gaspar Noé’s Climax is thrilling, stylish and harrowing. Its story is prefigured in the extraordinary opening dance scene
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Crystal Pite/Jonathon Young: Revisor
A farce in the fog of post-truth, post-dramatic abstractions… Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Revisor trails a string of questions
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Daniel Linehan: sspeciess
Exploring co-existence and ‘becoming-with’, Daniel Linehan’s new group piece radiates radical softness
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International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy
Eyeballs, Icarus and underwater football: filmmakers respond to the theme ‘Surrealism’ at this year’s festival
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KDV Dance Ensemble: Las Casas Invisibles
A new company are the first contemporary dance show to headline at Berlin’s iconic electronic music venue Funkhaus
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A stage in the gallery: Dimitris Papaioannou’s Sisyphus/Trans/Form
Dimitris Papaioannou’s first site-specific work for an art gallery, at Collezione Maramotti
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On and off the platform: dunaPart5, Hungary
New voices at the Hungarian platform for performing arts – and new battles over state support and control
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From company dancer to co-director to CODA: an interview with Stine Nilsen
Former co-director of Candoco (UK), Stine Nilsen returns to Norway as director of CODA Oslo International Dance Festival
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Mårten Spångberg: 46
The advocate of ‘post-dance’ performs a solo – hashtagged #lonelyformalism – that reassembles his own choreographies
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Jann Gallois: Samsara
All rise: choreographer, curtains, dancers and spirit ascend in a piece about worldly bondage and higher powers
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The Continuous Network: capillary action of dance into galleries
A four-year UK collaboration between Siobhan Davies Dance and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art asks: why take dance into art galleries, and what can happen when you do?
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Dancing in the schoolyard
T-step on the tarmac? An innovative school principal goes viral with his plan to get kids moving
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PT19: On being, enduring and becoming the performing body
Controlling, uncovering and being the performer’s body, at the 2019 Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts
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Hodworks & Unusual Symptoms: Coexist
Fearless performers brace themselves in a questing, questioning work by Hodworks (HU) and Theater Bremen (DE)
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Moving audiences: the Montag Modus event series
Berlin curator Léna Szirmay-Kalos on developing new formats for showcasing performance outside the theatre
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Postdancing in the dark
Posting from the POST-DANCE-ING conference in Stockholm 2019, Anna Kozonina asks: how did it work, what did it do?
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London International Screendance Festival 2019
Standouts and commentary from the first London International Screendance Festival by Springback correspondent Suzanne Frost

























