Kabinet K is a Belgian contemporary dance company founded and run by choreographers Joke Laureyns and Kwint Manshoven, who also bring a background in philosophy and design. The company’s performance works are intended to connect with both young and adult audiences: likewise in their work, children and professional performers work side by side as equal […]

Three teenagers casually address the audience. They have something to tell us, something they have no words for. One asks what we want to know about, and if it’s possible to come close to someone else’s experience. Can we ever really understand? Can we remember what it’s like to be a child? A high frequency […]

Ex-country and western singer turned lesbian performance artist, Tammy WhyNot is the alter ego of veteran performance artist Lois Weaver, who has been making projects that explore direct experiences of social issues for the past six years. This bouffant-wigged, kitten-heeled persona is outrageous enough, yet identifiable enough, to invite confidences. As Tammy, Weaver collaborates and […]

What do you know about sex? How do you know it? Dorothy Max Prior sees two shows at Sick! festival that are presented as part of the Wellcome Collection Sexology Season – and joins in the ensuing post-show discussions So You Can Feel: the opening show in Sick! Festival 2015. The house lights are still […]

Birdy takes no prisoners, right from the opening shots. A low-lit stage. A drone. The sounds of war. Specifically, the sounds of 20th century-style war – buzzing plane engines, Hurricanes and Spitfires, lobbed grenades – mixing with the universal and eternal sounds of war: the shouts and cries of confused voices, the groans and gasps […]