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Sacred Flight and Fallen Creation in ‘Vulture/Eve’
Image: Vulture/Eve | Credit: Chai Yeh Lee Ching-Ying Chien’s double-bill performance, combining her 2018 solo Vulture  with the newly...

Elspeth Chan
10 hours ago3 min read
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DAJ x Dive(rse) Dance: Lucy Clark's Baggage
Image: Lucy Clark in Baggage , choregraphed by Lucy Clark | Photographer: Lara Marino "Baggage is unhesitatingly real in exposing its...

Janejira Matthews
2 days ago1 min read
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From Café Counter to Nervous System in ‘Anatomy of Survival’
Image: Anatomy of Survival | Credit: Camilla Greenwall The title  Anatomy of Survival hints at a reference to Bessel van der Kolk’s...

Elspeth Chan
6 days ago3 min read
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Between Flesh and Spirit: The Philosophy of Ken Mai’s Butoh Meditations
Butoh, in Ken Mai’s approach, is less a form than a field, an energetic commons where breath meets cosmos, and where performance dilates...

Elspeth Chan
Oct 15 min read
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The Dark Dreamscape of Dance Theatre in ‘Naraku’
Presented with support from the Japan Foundation, Naraku  by Yoshimitsu Kushida and Dance Company Lasta plunges audiences into a visceral...

Elspeth Chan
Sep 303 min read
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Camden Fringe: Flamenco through the eyes of a balletomane
Image: FlamencoDanza Flamenco – the flair is almost audible in its name. You might find it in an unsuspecting tavern in Seville, or so I...

Janejira Matthews
Sep 285 min read
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Sounding Out Protest and the Present – an interview with Dam Van Huynh
Dam Van Hunyh’s returning works, In Realness (2022)  and Exquisite Noise (2024) , are stubbornly loud as they delve into protest and...

Janejira Matthews
Sep 2415 min read
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Threads of Paradox and Transformation in ‘Concrete Rain Asian Dance Festival’
The festival unfolds as a journey through imagination and memory, expressed physically across architecture, ritual, myth, and personal...

Elspeth Chan
Sep 245 min read
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Stuffed with stories & humour: 'How to be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons'
Image: Rachel Poirer and Michael Keegan-Dolan in How to Be a Dancer | Photographer: Fiona Morgan Michael Keegan-Dolan’s How to Be a...

Janejira Matthews
Sep 232 min read
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Reclaiming Rave, Reimagining Dance in 'Over and Over (and over again)'
Candoco Dance Company and Dan Daw Creative Projects’ Over and Over (and over again)  is a bold, immersive production on rave culture and...

Elspeth Chan
Sep 63 min read
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From Rupture to Ritual in ‘Of Mirrors and Shadows’/’Flesh to Ashes’
Image: Of Mirrors and Shadows  | Credit: London Butoh Dance Company / Posthuman Theatre Of Mirrors and Shadows  — London Butoh Dance...

Elspeth Chan
Sep 13 min read
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Camden Fringe: From Isolated Cubicles to Yearning on Stage in ‘Net Cafe Refugee’
Image: Net Cafe Refugee  | Credit: William Eden Set within the shadowy confines of a Tokyo internet cafe, Net Cafe Refugee  uncovers the...

Elspeth Chan
Aug 263 min read
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Snow White, or 'Hima Sundari'? Kala Chethena Kathakali's Delightful Cultural Bridge
Image: Kala Chethena Kathakali's Hima Sundari , with Kalanilayam Balakrishnan as The Prince & Kalamandalam Vijayakumar as The Princess. |...

Janejira Matthews
Aug 253 min read
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Camden Fringe: Bold Bodies and Feminist Choreography in ‘THREEFOLD’
Image: THREEFOLD Â | Credit: Katie Ho THREEFOLD Â presents a powerful evening featuring three distinctive performances by...

Elspeth Chan
Aug 173 min read
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Camden Fringe: All-female Gang Legend Steal the Spotlight in ‘The Forty Elephants’
Image: Wellie Co. dance company ' s The Forty Elephants | Credit: Fiona Whyte Photography Nine female performers electrify the stage in...

Elspeth Chan
Aug 163 min read
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Camden Fringe: Powerful and Unforgotten Voices in 'Uproar'
Image: Rieckhof/Silva Collective's Uproar Protest, people, suffering - such are common themes that define the news headlines of the past...

Janejira Matthews
Aug 143 min read
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When climbing through nature, the sky is the limit at Milton Keynes International Festival 2025
Milton Keynes International Festival (MKIF) features a variety of artists and shows, covering a range reaching from circus performance to...

Janejira Matthews
Jul 254 min read
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EMOTION: a surreal and beautiful dive into dawn
We are greeted by a warm Summer dawn when we step out onto a school playground round the back of Siobhan Davies Studio around 4am. The...

Janejira Matthews
Jul 252 min read
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From Solitude to Connection: An Interview with Linden Dance Company on 'CAGED'
Image: CAGED | Photographer: Linden Dance Company Theme & Content & Artistic Process 1. CAGED Â explores themes of solitude, entrapment,...

Elspeth Chan
Jul 206 min read
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Unbinding Bodies and Systems at FRAMELESS: A Collaboration of Movement, Memory, and Digital Art
On a breezy London evening, as the city cooled after a heatwave, FRAMELESS welcomed visitors to a unique celebration of digital and dance...

Elspeth Chan
Jul 203 min read
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