Review: Ballet Shoes
A winter paean to wonder and possibility, Kendall Feaver’s and Katy Rudd’s Ballet Shoes has proved as evergreen as the book itself. Outstanding.
Genre: Dance and Movement Theatre 0
Review: Who Do They Think They Are?
A finely-written show, with tensions wrought individually to a satisfying whole.
Review: GENDAI
A mesmerizing fusion of lasers, smoke, and dance that embodies the meaning of its name: modern, present, alive.
Review: Balfour Reparations
An interesting theatrical deconstruction of what might happen in 20 years’ time if we wake up to what we did in Palestine.
Review: Sole to Soul: A Western Glimpse at Foot-Binding
The choreography is technically assured and visually engaging.
Review: For Steve and Furtherfield – A Dance Showcase
The resplendent coil of the human condition - fragile, simple, beautiful...
Review: La Femme des Sables
A dance piece investigating how pain becomes a catalyst for spiritual enlightenment
Review: Push and Pull
An extraordinary performance exploring the push and pull dynamic of a relationship touching deep emotional strings
Review: Formosa Viva
A catchy dance theatre performance displaying Taiwan's historical heritage through movement and dance
Review: Blanc de Blanc
A poetic solo mime performance rich in visual symbolism, drawing us into the depths of an artist’s unconscious.
Review: The Violet Hour
A contemplative investigation springboarded from a single line from T.S. Eliot's Wasteland that asks fundamental questions and is creative in all its response.
Review: Lula Mebrahtu I Am – OommoO
Everything you’ve heard is true. Lula Mebrahtu is memserising, and I Am – OommoO like its creator has vast potential.
Review: Goner
A radical vision of horror which challenges from the beginning right through to the end.
Review: World’s Evolution
A vibrant piece of dance theatre which enthrals asking fundamental questions in a theatrically fascinating manner.
Review: Glitch in the Myth
A timeless archetype reimagined through a woman's perspective, capable of resonating with audiences everywhere
Review: Agleyum Cliyopatrayum
An original blend of physical theatre and Indian ritualistic elements conveys the unconscious emotional worlds of two archetypal female characters.
Review: Re:Incarnation
Powerhouse Afrodance celebrating the creative energy of Lagos, presented by Dance Consortium
Review: EPHEMERAL ECHOES
A Collaboration between Indepen-dance, LPM Dance Company and ConCuerpos Dance Company
Review: Trick of The Eye
A short piece of dance which does all it needs to, to engage and enrich our understanding of how we see people and need to recalibrate.
Review: Flux and Flourish
Diverse dance performed with panache, glitter and well-deserved confidence.
Review: Contemporary Sisyphus
A solo journey of pain and discovery beautifully imagined in a movement piece with tremendous grace.
Review: WHAKAPAPA
A powerful and heady mix of dance and film that blows your prejudicial cobwebs away.
Review: Transhumanist
An astonishing show based on the intersection between us and AI which is simply breathtakingly, body poppingly brilliant.
Review: Freak Out!
A theatrical response to a serious issue of our time along with a dollop of end-of-the-pier entertainment.
Review: ARI: The Spirit of Korea
Unforgettable - infectiously exceptional - The glorious family story of father and daughter, Shin ki-mok and Ari.
Review: Look at Them!
A visceral spectacle of metaphorical artistry not to be missed. Breath-taking physical theatre, not to be missed!
Review: Paper Swans
A superbly performed physical, surreal performance, rooted in the theatre of the absurd
Review: The Last Beginning
A group of students fight their way to their new existential world! Expect physical theatre, lightsabers, silk acrobatics and a giant buckyball!
Review: Sushi Tap 2024
Mixing tap dance with clowning, juggling and crowd work, this is a fun show for all ages
Review: You’re Not Doing It Wrong If No-one Knows What You’re Doing
How families shape you - until you find your own particular shape
Review: Kontemporary Korea: A Double Bill of K:Dance
An enthralling and astonishing double bill of contemporary dance.
Review: J’ai un Bleu
J’ai un Bleu manages to covey through movement what words simply cannot express. The objectification of the female form.
Review: Company RAus’s Dido
A multimedia portrayal of Dido's love and loss, in sound, light and solo dance
Review: Lived Fiction
Unique, spellbinding, groundbreaking; above all makes everyone more alive to the possibilities of being human.
Review: Twisted Tales
One mat, six players and bundles of talent in this dynamic ensemble. Bringing Total Theatre back!
Review: Futuristic Folktales
A challenging and engaging theatrical piece of dancing irony – using the future to focus the past, through rebirthing itself.
Review: an accident/ A Life
Tragic, uplifting, dance, disabled, able to entertain and shock – dance of special value.
Review: Cold War
Cold War ends with a draining-out of hope in Anya Chalotra and Luke Thallon; a desolate beauty the cast certainly earn.
Review: Refilwe
At just 45 minutes, a delightfully adapted fairy-tale, adapted in its turn. Bisola Aalbi’s rewrite is a lively, timely take on a silent culture war to make people of all ages think again.
Review: Pain and I
A poetic musing upon the effect and poignancy of suffering, but not doing so in silence.
Review: The Yellow Wallpaper
Stephanie Mohr’s adaptation is a remarkable manifestation (no other word seems more apt) of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story The Yellow Wallpaper, an important realisation of a key feminist awakening. It’s good enough for you not to want it depicted in any other way.
Review: Purgatorio
Groundhog Day - Saying goodbye to old memories, whilst finding new ones. A beautiful physical representation on our ability to accept who we truly are! Get down to Club Purgatorio!
Review: AFTER ALL
Weinachter is an interchangeable chameleon: not just a dancer, but a rare performer who can do it all! Her style and execution of ideas paints a beautiful memory of her idiosyncratic talents in exploring the beginning and end of life. Stunningly poignant.
Review: Lino
Mace Cowart is a talent to watch as both an actor and a writer, and you would do well to see him while you can.
Review: The Rest of Our Lives
A gorgeous piece of dance-based theatre that navigates the jumbled inevitability of middle age.
Review: A Wee Journey
An exceptionally moving piece of dance theatre which explored migration, refugeehood and connection through the medium of dance, theatre and music, which I truly understood.
Review: Moving Cloud
The most astonishing piece of dance theatre I have seen for some considerable time.
Review: Solos in Spaces
A triptych of uneven but very interesting physical muses on gestures, meditation and beneath the sea.
Review: The Chosen Haram
A masterful fusion of circus, dance and visual storytelling, delivering a profoundly modern queer tale.
Review: Ahead of the Curve
A wonderful dance theatre with heart and soul and the moves to back them up.
Review: One
A cultural challenge in a creative and imaginative manner which tasks our assumptions over the immigration of our politics and the politics of belief
Review: The Black Blues Brothers
An explosion of joy with the music of The Blues Brothers as a backdrop and unremitting physical wonderment as an entertaining treat.
Review: Collision
Thrilling and inventive circus with hip hop which is fast paced and leads to a thoroughly entertaining romp
Review: Entwined
A superior celebration of movement highlighting that which makes us similarly different.
Review: Double Murder: Clowns / The Fix
An extraordinary choreographic exploration of murder and hope
Review: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy
Turns the bleakness of six young men into a celebration of – for now – coming through
Review: Finding Grace
A fascinating "tragi-comic solo performance about a writer who is looking for ‘Grace’.
Review: A Call to Care
A creatively choreographed homage to the essential work of an essential crew from an essentially creative part of our crafts
Review: Grin
A fantastic piece of collaboration which is as energetic as it is creative and challenging.
