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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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Oona Doherty: Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer
An attempt to heal the trauma of the collective Belfast body produces very mixed results
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Slow and gentle: Santarcangelo Festival 2019
Performances at the 49th Santarcangelo Festival stir our sense of being and embodiment
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Happy Together
A tango scene in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together invites our hearts into the spaces between separation and togetherness, fiction and reality
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Six of their sex: female dancemakers at ImPulsTanz 2019
A choreographic variety of women’s work at ImPulsTanz Vienna
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Earth moves: contemporary roots at Sismògraf festival
The old made anew: three contemporary choreographers reworking folkloric heritage at Sismògraf Festival
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Julidans NEXT, Amsterdam: performers steal the show
Julidans NEXT offers new opportunities for both artists and audiences
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Vote for dance: Antistatic Festival 2019, Bulgaria
The 12th Antistatic Festival called a #VoteForDance – but how did the performances poll with our reviewer?
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Hack me tender: Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces
Orgies, utopias and joyful existence in Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces
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The Favourite
In place and out of time: dance anachronisms in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite (2018) are part of a fickle world
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Already there? An interview with Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi
Italian choreographic duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi on powerplay and physical rhetoric – past and present
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SPRING Utrecht 2019: ‘In many ways, the future is already here’
Name it, hashtag it, experience it… The SPRING festival in Utrecht dives into dance, performance, installation, god, politics, gender – and the future
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Dogtooth
The distorting mirror of dance reflects an intimate reality of adolescent vulnerability in Dogtooth (2009)
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Szerpentin Dance Film Festival
What is Szerpentin? Named after Loïe Fuller’s Serpentine Dance, the biennial Szerpentin Dance Film Festival takes place in Budapest, Hungary. It is directed by Gábor Pintér (artistic director of the Parallel Art Foundation, which organises the festival) who has been working with dance film for almost 15 years, having launched and run the EDIT festival…
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Sofia Mavragani: Afterwords
Mouth movement makes for an intriguing choreographic experiment, but Anastasio Koukoutas doesn’t quite swallow it
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Caught in the act of seeing
Look, then look again. Anastasio Koukoutas on altering visions in three contemporary dance pieces from Greece
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Nicole Beutler Projects: 8: Metamorphoses
What’s the measure of a man? This performance questions what we are even measuring when we say ‘man’
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Echoes, Ode to Silence
Andres Arochi’s short film uses dance to revisit Luis Barragán’s masterpiece of modernist architecture
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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
-
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
-
Oona Doherty: Hard to be Soft – A Belfast Prayer
An attempt to heal the trauma of the collective Belfast body produces very mixed results
-
Slow and gentle: Santarcangelo Festival 2019
Performances at the 49th Santarcangelo Festival stir our sense of being and embodiment
-
Happy Together
A tango scene in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together invites our hearts into the spaces between separation and togetherness, fiction and reality
-
Six of their sex: female dancemakers at ImPulsTanz 2019
A choreographic variety of women’s work at ImPulsTanz Vienna
-
Earth moves: contemporary roots at Sismògraf festival
The old made anew: three contemporary choreographers reworking folkloric heritage at Sismògraf Festival
-
Julidans NEXT, Amsterdam: performers steal the show
Julidans NEXT offers new opportunities for both artists and audiences
-
Vote for dance: Antistatic Festival 2019, Bulgaria
The 12th Antistatic Festival called a #VoteForDance – but how did the performances poll with our reviewer?
-
Hack me tender: Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces
Orgies, utopias and joyful existence in Mette Ingvartsen’s Red Pieces
-
The Favourite
In place and out of time: dance anachronisms in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite (2018) are part of a fickle world
-
Already there? An interview with Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi
Italian choreographic duo Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi on powerplay and physical rhetoric – past and present
-
SPRING Utrecht 2019: ‘In many ways, the future is already here’
Name it, hashtag it, experience it… The SPRING festival in Utrecht dives into dance, performance, installation, god, politics, gender – and the future
-
Dogtooth
The distorting mirror of dance reflects an intimate reality of adolescent vulnerability in Dogtooth (2009)
-
Szerpentin Dance Film Festival
What is Szerpentin? Named after Loïe Fuller’s Serpentine Dance, the biennial Szerpentin Dance Film Festival takes place in Budapest, Hungary. It is directed by Gábor Pintér (artistic director of the Parallel Art Foundation, which organises the festival) who has been working with dance film for almost 15 years, having launched and run the EDIT festival…
-
Sofia Mavragani: Afterwords
Mouth movement makes for an intriguing choreographic experiment, but Anastasio Koukoutas doesn’t quite swallow it
-
Caught in the act of seeing
Look, then look again. Anastasio Koukoutas on altering visions in three contemporary dance pieces from Greece
-
Nicole Beutler Projects: 8: Metamorphoses
What’s the measure of a man? This performance questions what we are even measuring when we say ‘man’
-
Echoes, Ode to Silence
Andres Arochi’s short film uses dance to revisit Luis Barragán’s masterpiece of modernist architecture
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