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Out of the blues
Rosas dancer Carlos Garbin talks about becoming a Rosas musician in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s new Exit Above
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A bird’s-eye view at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023
A selection of performances from Brussels’ expansive Kunstenfestivaldesarts shows its stylistic and thematic range
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Fuori Programma Rome: focus on Israel
How was the strand of performances from Israel at Rome’s Fuori Programma festival?
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Mohamed Toukabri: The Power (of) the Fragile
Between mother and son, motherland and migration, this tender tale is moving – if not specifically so
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Simona Bertozzi: Onde
Form undulates with flow in a sensorial choreography of imagination, evocation and presence
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The wall and the circle
A European workshop on equity in dance prompts reflections on insiders, outsiders, in-betweeners and go-betweeners
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STHLM DANS: Curating outside the box
Talking about the big bang that opened STHLM festival in Stockholm – and about the act of talking about dance
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Baro d’evel: Là
Impressive but also frail but also funny, a show that is a little human, a little animal and a little magical
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Florentina Holzinger: Ophelia’s Got Talent
Beyond trivial and beyond tasteful… Holzinger rides again, through pop, schlock and Schiller
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Queer Darlings 2023
An in-depth dive into the fourth and final edition of Berlin’s Queer Darlings festival
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Is Marikiscrycrycry… a goner?
Both sides of the stage: audience member Georgia Howlett talks with creator and performer Malik Nashad Sharpe about their show Goner
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End on a high: Dansa València 2023
Valencia’s long-running annual festival calls to dance, to rhythm – and finally to us
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Orbita – Rome’s contemporary dance season
How a five-month season of dance in Rome is finding its niche within the city’s larger dance ecology
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Another angle on Czech Dance Platform 2023
After Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, might contemporary dance be growing less self-obsessed?
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An angle on Czech Dance Platform 2023
Emily May found herself watching Czech Dance Platform through a postmodern-ish American lens (just don’t tell her teenage self)
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Local in Limerick
Local works paired with international ones on the stage of Dance Limerick’s What Next festival
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‘What are these peripheral practices?’
Betina Panagiotara travels from the southeast to the northwest of Europe to find out what peripheral dance practices look like
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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

























