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Richard Mascherin: Caer, Caer, Caer
Falling, failing and the fates that befall us in Mascherin’s poetically staged physical fable
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Léa Tirabasso: Starving Dingoes
The impacts of harrowing piece on the ‘science of programmed death’ are felt inside, outside and between our bodies
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Side Step Festival Helsinki
Anna Kozonina journeys through an impressive programme but wonders why we keep caging dance in black boxes and white cubes
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Love, Death & Robots
Dance and rotoscope animation combine to stunning effect in the award-winning Netflix series
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Mime Time
A newbie and a has-been take separate routes through the London International Mime Festival
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Don’t Worry Darling
The dark side of dance takes centre stage in Olivia Wilde’s tale of beauty and control
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Nitsan Margaliot: Foresigns
A triple bill of duet encounters with mysteries that both captivate and mystify
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Slow motions through climates of change
Laughing, learning, touring and moving (slowly!) in the face of climate degradation – with Rita Marcalo’s Instant Dissidence
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LEE\VAKULYA: Burnt [the eternal long now]
Dance work as material and metaphor for body labour and physical burnout
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CODA 2022: staging diversities
Towards a diversity of diversities at CODA Oslo International Dance Festival
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CODA 2022: movement research for every body?
Yasen Vasilev looks forwards and outwards from the main seminar at CODA 2022, on the theme of disability
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CoisCéim Dance Theatre: Go to Blazes
A mix of live and VR performance in response to Joyce’s classic novel becomes a heady, scented experience
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I is for International: On programming dance from abroad
Ellie Harris of London’s Greenwich & Docklands International Festival on increasing challenges to international programming and co-operation
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Adrienn Hód: Soft spot
In its (dis)association of word and action, Adrienn Hód’s new work touches a primal fear – of the critic
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Marianna Henriksson & Anna Mustonen: Eros
A singers, dancers and orchestra reach out in a meditation on the unreachability of desire
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Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous: Reverie
With its subconscious mysteries and fugitive feelings, Reverie is as much a ‘place’ as a ‘piece’
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Eleonora Siarava: Blue Beyond
Time, space, light, cycles – Eleonora Siarava’s Blue Beyond is both cosmic and minimal
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Oona through the ages
Oona Doherty ventures down new roads as London’s Dance Umbrella gives us a chance to look back at where she’s been
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Mei Chen, Yannis Brissot: Very Tiny Little Drop of Wax
A curiously cryptic hybrid morphs into an echo of a singer’s unregretted life
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Place of freedom? B.Motion 2022
In midsummer, the Italian city of Bassano del Grappa becomes a many-limbed festival of dancing
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Paths through ImPulsTanz, part 2
Not just the sights but the sounds: Lena Megyeri continues her route through Vienna’s month-long ImPulsTanz festival
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Paths through ImPulsTanz, part 1
Lena Megyeri looks at climate and memory in the first of two routes through Vienna’s sprawling ImPulsTanz festival
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Ex Machina
The unnerving AI disco dance in Alex Garland’s movie provokes ideas about dance, autopilot and self-programming










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