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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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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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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
-
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
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