Image: Dancers (left-right) Natnael Dawit, Tabitha O’Sullivan, Oliver Mahar, Tanisha Addicott, Julia Costa, Holly Vallis in Shobana Jeyasingh's We Caliban | Photographer: Foteini Christofilopoulou Civilised, or “savage”? Educated, or monstrous? Shakespeare’s character of Caliban is arguably presented as a more lowly character in The Tempest , but even in Shakespeare’s text we see an inkling of something more. Shobana Jeyasingh’s We Caliban tries to paint a picture of these

Joint review written by Elspeth Chan & Janejira Matthews Image: Dam Van Huynh's Exquisite Noise | Photographer: redManhattan Photography An anger, a fearlessness, draped in haze. Bodies dragging, or being dragged. Brief moments of tenderness. In Dam Van Huynh’s Exquisite Noise , all of these things are set in a sensory intensity that spreads from the stage into the auditorium, an emotional infection to be absorbed or embodied by the viewer. Rooted in the idea that noise is a

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

Image: Lucy Clark in Baggage , choregraphed by Lucy Clark | Photographer: Lara Marino "Baggage is unhesitatingly real in exposing its...

Image: Anatomy of Survival | Credit: Camilla Greenwall The title Anatomy of Survival hints at a reference to Bessel van der Kolk’s...

Butoh, in Ken Mai’s approach, is less a form than a field, an energetic commons where breath meets cosmos, and where performance dilates...

Presented with support from the Japan Foundation, Naraku by Yoshimitsu Kushida and Dance Company Lasta plunges audiences into a visceral...

Image: FlamencoDanza Flamenco – the flair is almost audible in its name. You might find it in an unsuspecting tavern in Seville, or so I...

Dam Van Hunyh’s returning works, In Realness (2022) and Exquisite Noise (2024) , are stubbornly loud as they delve into protest and...

The festival unfolds as a journey through imagination and memory, expressed physically across architecture, ritual, myth, and personal...

Image: Rachel Poirer and Michael Keegan-Dolan in How to Be a Dancer | Photographer: Fiona Morgan Michael Keegan-Dolan’s How to Be a...

Candoco Dance Company and Dan Daw Creative Projects’ Over and Over (and over again) is a bold, immersive production on rave culture and...

Image: Of Mirrors and Shadows | Credit: London Butoh Dance Company / Posthuman Theatre Of Mirrors and Shadows — London Butoh Dance...

Image: Net Cafe Refugee | Credit: William Eden Set within the shadowy confines of a Tokyo internet cafe, Net Cafe Refugee uncovers the...

Image: Kala Chethena Kathakali's Hima Sundari , with Kalanilayam Balakrishnan as The Prince & Kalamandalam Vijayakumar as The Princess. |...

Image: THREEFOLD | Credit: Katie Ho THREEFOLD presents a powerful evening featuring three distinctive performances by...

Image: Wellie Co. dance company ' s The Forty Elephants | Credit: Fiona Whyte Photography Nine female performers electrify the stage in...

Image: Rieckhof/Silva Collective's Uproar Protest, people, suffering - such are common themes that define the news headlines of the past...

Milton Keynes International Festival (MKIF) features a variety of artists and shows, covering a range reaching from circus performance to...

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...