Cinema:  a shared banquet in a palace, or a snack consumed absent-mindedly on your iPhone? Sam Green is on a mission to find a new way for cinema to be presented, making it a live theatrical experience that, like any other form of theatre, is unique to this time and this shared space. What we […]

What are the last things you see and say before you die and become dust? Do all oceans have walls? And why did the lark bury her father inside her own head? All the Animals, a specially commissioned show for Brighton Festival, sees Laurie Anderson piecing together excerpts from earlier shows to make something that […]

L’Oublié(e) is a stunningly beautiful piece – a mostly monochrome series of moving pictures that blends contemporary circus, dance and word-free visual theatre, all accompanied by a highly inventive lighting design, and an eclectic soundspace that merges ambient electronica with echoing snatches of old-world waltzes, tangos and torch-songs. The 1930s classic Dream a Little Dream […]

Mid-way through Fragments – Volume 1, I began to worry about choreographer Sylvain Émard’s state of mind. The work seemed so gloomy and bleak. A post-show talk revealed that his starting point for each of this series of short pieces was to ask the dancer what was most urgent in their lives right now. He […]

For those who grow up by the coast, the sea has a mighty pull. Swimming off the jetty, watching the tide roll back across the vast, winkle studded mud flats of the Estuary. I can smell it now. If, like Lorraine, you are a Celtic mythical seal-woman, the ocean is eventually going to draw you […]