On the top floor of a city centre car park the world premiere of Still House’s Of Riders and Running Horses took flight in sun, wind, and rain. My experience of this new dance event began with excitedly queuing on the pavement outside the NCP car park holding on to the fact that something going […]

Dickie Beau, a ‘drag fabulist’ and ‘playback pioneer’, was among the opening shows of this year’s Mayfest. Taking the main stage at Bristol Old Vic, Blackouts was an audiovisual spectacle layering projection, performer and rare mesmerising tape recordings of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. The show opens with a passionate recording of Judy Garland. ‘You […]

In 2013, live art performer and professional trickster Richard DeDomenici launched  The Redux Project, which he describes as ’my attempt to disrupt the cinema industry by making counterfeit sections of popular films.’ And so here he is at Norwich Arts Centre, presenting a show about the project for this enterprising venue’s [Live] Art Club, as […]

A reflection on What Will Have Been, the latest work by Circa to be developed in collaboration with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and a meeting with the company’s director Yaron Lifschitz The Adnams Spiegeltent, in the last week of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival: word is out, and the tent is full. Circa are perennial […]

Sister Sledge’s classic disco track He’s the Greatest Dancer is playing. The Basement main space is packed – sold out for a lunchtime dance show from Iceland! Everyone is relaxed and chatty, including the two performers who are just hanging out in the performance space, casually greeting people as they come in. One is a slim, […]