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Rakete Festival 2019: from Mama to Mother Earth
At the intersections between the personal and the panoramic – a new generation of dance artists at the Rakete Festival, Vienna
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Queer Darlings 2019, Berlin
Camgirls and drag queens, chatrooms and cabaret: two surprising pieces from a festival of feminist and queer performance
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Albert Quesada & Zoltán Vakulya: OneTwoThreeOneTwo
An experiment in choreography and staging that is definitely ‘not flamenco’ – but neither is it something else
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La Joie de Vivre
Wedged between independence and genocide, a Cambodian dance scene shows that loving life is precious – and takes practice
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At work: Jesús Rubio Gamo
‘It was dance and music that saved me from loneliness.’ Jesús Rubio Gamo on the turning point that led to the creation of Gran Bolero (2019)
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Trash aesthetic: Meet The Symptoms
What is waste? Who is trash? Réka Szabó and Dániel Szász of The Symptoms speak about recycling a street performance
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At work: Marie Cantenys
‘The garment is not the outcome, the outcome is everything together.’ Fashion designer Marie Cantenys talks about working with dancer Maya Jilan Dong
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London International Mime Festival 2019
Using language and losing language: Theatre Re, Gecko and Peeping Tom at the 2019 London International Mime Festival
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Taiwan Dance Platform 2018
The 2018 Taiwan Dance Platform was ‘made in Asia’, but even more international in scope
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Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina
A pivotal scene in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina is wordless, its drama of love, transgression and death distilled in dance
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Jan Martens: Passing the Bechdel Test
Jan Martens’ choreography is a canvas that interweaves the action and speech of teenage performers with an impressive array of feminist texts, figures and thoughts
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At work: Bára Sigfúsdóttir
Icelandic choreographer Bára Sigfúsdóttir on working between reality and imagination
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Pal Frenák, W_all / Rita Góbi, Snapdragons
Two contrasting choreographers present works on the Hungarian stage
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DanceLive Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen’s DanceLive festival combines a productive dance platform and a conscious aim to connect with non-dance audiences
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Mauvais Sang
An intoxicating scene from Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang embodies the headlong rush of youthful love and the mystery of its memory
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Polyphony, playing and politics: the many voices of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
On voices, parts, and playing parts in the many-limbed choreography of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
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Oktoberdans, Bergen: minorities dance for a majority audience
Two programmes at Scandinavia’s largest dance platform navigate the exclusivity of an ‘inclusive’ mindset
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Towards the ‘ironic spectator’
Apathy as activism: what has become of political art and a politicised audience?
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Ivo Dimchev: Som Faves
A maniacal movement manifesto upends audience expectations in a one-off performance at London’s Chisenhale Dance Space

























