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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
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Black and blue at Festival Les Plateaux
Choreographers Ana Pi and Calixto Neto take on ‘black dance’ on their own terms
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Favourite jumper: Igor & Moreno, Idiot-Syncrasy
Caring but not careful – who knew an hour of jumping up and down would touch so many people in so many ways?
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Down in one: the single-shot music video
On the appeal and the achievement of the one-shot music video
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American Psycho
Is that a raincoat or are you just glad to see me? Róisín O’Brien on the choreography of a murder
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Tanz im August talkabout #2: portrait of myself as my father (Nora Chipaumire), The Waves (Noé Soulier)
Springback’s Berlin Three discuss patterns and parentage in two very different pieces at the Tanz im August season
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Dansathon: an international dance hackathon
A report from the first ‘international dance hackathon’, a joint venture between Liège, London and Lyon that is more than just a competition
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Tanz im August talkabout #1: Inoah (Bruno Beltrão), R. OSA (Silvia Gribaudi)
Springback’s Berlin Three discuss body politics and national politics at the Tanz im August season
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Jefta van Dinther: Dark Field Analysis
Two men embark on an expedition inside the body and beyond the mind, in Jefta van Dinther’s psychedelic Dark Field Analysis
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Les Brigittines International Festival 2018
A many-layered thing: contrasting takeaways of our Springback writers at Les Brigittines, Brussels, reflect the genre-crossing styles of the festival itself
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Michikazu Matsune: All Together
Recollection, reflection and re-enactment make for a memorable evening in Michikazu Matsune’s new piece about people both present and absent
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Little Miss Sunshine
For the win! Anna Kaszuba on why artlessness triumphs in the dance scene from ‘Little Miss Sunshine’
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Rosas: The Six Brandenburg Concertos
A workbook choreographic exercise builds to a surprisingly exhilarating finale in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s new Six Brandenburg Concertos
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Shape of YouTube
Two widely viewed danceworks beg the questions: how does YouTube shape dance? And how do you shape YouTube?
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[8:tension] at ImPulsTanz Vienna 2018
Don’t expect the new to be comfortable: the [8:tension] platform for new choreography is provocative, plural, sometimes tedious – and often out of the comfort zone
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Jo Bannon: We Are F*cked
Doubt and disturbance come to a climax in Jo Bannon’s powerfully penetrating performance
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Beyond borders: Amit Lahav and Gecko
Gecko’s Amit Lahav talks to Daniel Pitt about straddling genres, insularity and internationalism in British theatre – and being pummelled with love
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Dirty Dancing
Alexandra Gray on her first time watching Dirty Dancing – and why Baby’s first time on the dancefloor stays with her
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Taneli Törmä: COVER – A symphonic poem in three movements
A merger of choreography and sound installation, Finnish artist Taneli Törmä’s COVER sensitively explores the kinaesthetic experience of sound.





















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