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Photo by Laurent-Phillipe Adam Linder’s Acid Gems and Marco da Silva Ferreira’s a Folia both pop as ensemble pieces with instantly recognisable aesthetics – holding true to a trend for live dance [...]

Photo by écoute chérie A mixed programme of contrasting choreographic premieres can be hit and miss but not when the standard is pointedly high. Set to the thread of composer Nico Muhly’s [...]

Into the Hairy is billed as a ‘sensual’ experience delivered by eight dancers, but it would be wrong to write it off as an expression of sexuality. Made by Sadler’s Wells [...]

Photo by Dan John Lloyd BULLYACHE’s evening of emotional ballads, expressed through a medley of dance mediums, knows its audience. When drag artist Barbs walks onto a reductive nightclub version [...]

Credit: Graeme Miall.   Social prescribers should take note of Clod Ensemble and Nu Civilisation Orchestra’s interactive dance extravaganza, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, hosted, [...]

My top 5 theatre and dance highlights of winter 2023/24 ~ in no particular order. These are shows I’ve reviewed, and have been chosen for the kind of holistic artistry that makes a [...]

  Under Milk Wood… July 2021.’ It is the tail-end of the lockdown everyone assumes is our last and theatres that can afford it have opened. Seeing Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre [...]