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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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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

























