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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
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Fringe cuts from Edinburgh 2019
A week of dance at the Edinburgh Fringe, as seen by Lena Megyeri at the 2019 NICritics programme for independent writers
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Kung Fu Hustle
Slick, stylish, violent… the Axe Gang in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle know how to cut a figure on the dance floor – and off it…
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Florentina Holzinger: TANZ, a sylphic reverie in stunts
Pitching witch against fairy, Florentina Holzinger’s TANZ bares the corporal discipline and punishment of romantic ballet through brutal parody and spectacular stunts
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La Ribot/Dançando com a Diferença: Happy Island
You can see the trees on Happy Island. What about the wood?
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New directions home? ImPulsTanz 2019
Lena Megyeri reflects on the crisis of objective in contemporary dance at Vienna’s contemporary dance festival.
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Radical empathy and real engagement: Take Me Somewhere 2019
Dance artists at Glasgow’s genre-crossing festival of experimental performance take you beyond performance itself
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Gunilla Heilborn: The Wonderful and The Ordinary
A work in which the ordinary surpasses the wonderful leads to wonderings about words
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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
-
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
-
Daniel Linehan: sspeciess
Exploring co-existence and ‘becoming-with’, Daniel Linehan’s new group piece radiates radical softness
-
International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy
Eyeballs, Icarus and underwater football: filmmakers respond to the theme ‘Surrealism’ at this year’s festival
-
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
-
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
-
On and off the platform: dunaPart5, Hungary
New voices at the Hungarian platform for performing arts – and new battles over state support and control
-
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
-
Mårten Spångberg: 46
The advocate of ‘post-dance’ performs a solo – hashtagged #lonelyformalism – that reassembles his own choreographies
-
Jann Gallois: Samsara
All rise: choreographer, curtains, dancers and spirit ascend in a piece about worldly bondage and higher powers
-
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?
-
Dancing in the schoolyard
T-step on the tarmac? An innovative school principal goes viral with his plan to get kids moving
-
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
-
Hodworks & Unusual Symptoms: Coexist
Fearless performers brace themselves in a questing, questioning work by Hodworks (HU) and Theater Bremen (DE)
-
Moving audiences: the Montag Modus event series
Berlin curator Léna Szirmay-Kalos on developing new formats for showcasing performance outside the theatre
-
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?
-
London International Screendance Festival 2019
Standouts and commentary from the first London International Screendance Festival by Springback correspondent Suzanne Frost
-
Fringe cuts from Edinburgh 2019
A week of dance at the Edinburgh Fringe, as seen by Lena Megyeri at the 2019 NICritics programme for independent writers
-
Kung Fu Hustle
Slick, stylish, violent… the Axe Gang in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle know how to cut a figure on the dance floor – and off it…
-
Florentina Holzinger: TANZ, a sylphic reverie in stunts
Pitching witch against fairy, Florentina Holzinger’s TANZ bares the corporal discipline and punishment of romantic ballet through brutal parody and spectacular stunts
-
La Ribot/Dançando com a Diferença: Happy Island
You can see the trees on Happy Island. What about the wood?
-
New directions home? ImPulsTanz 2019
Lena Megyeri reflects on the crisis of objective in contemporary dance at Vienna’s contemporary dance festival.
-
Radical empathy and real engagement: Take Me Somewhere 2019
Dance artists at Glasgow’s genre-crossing festival of experimental performance take you beyond performance itself
-
Gunilla Heilborn: The Wonderful and The Ordinary
A work in which the ordinary surpasses the wonderful leads to wonderings about words
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