A part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival 2013, Dancing City brought a series of weekday lunchtime events to the squares and gardens below Canary Wharf’s looming structures, and culminated in a jam-packed programme on Saturday afternoon. Companies working with Chinese pole, German wheel and acrobalance were programmed alongside dance pieces featuring ballet, contemporary, and […]

The first time, as tragedy: 19 August, 1819 – magistrates order the cavalry in to a pro-democracy rally in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, killing at least fifteen and wounding 700; the protest becomes iconic as the Peterloo Massacre. The second time, as farce: 9 August, 2011 – rioters take over Manchester city centre; nobody, participants […]

Full marks to Manchester International Festival for discovering the Mayfield Depot and arranging for it to be used as a venue during the festival. It’s a huge cavernous space with big sliding doors and big rooms off the central hall. At the far end is a blocked off room which the stewards ask you to […]

Beta Public was a two-pronged thrust at exposing the underbelly of what computer games could mean in the world of theatre. The evening began below stairs with a loosely curated exhibition of video games on various devices, with creators hovering by, and culminated in a short programme of demonstrations and discourse on what gaming could […]

Johnno McCreadie is 15 and lives in Livingston, Scotland. His friend Spanner is a bit of a bad laddie; his mum Alison is worried about those boys, about drugs. The D-man, a techno-head from the south of England, is taking Johnno and Spanner to a rave, Johnno’s first ever. Robert Dunlop is a policeman haunted […]