Last summer Akram Khan’s fifty-strong ensemble wowed millions of people as part of Danny Boyle’s epic Olympic Opening Ceremony. Out on his own, Khan continues to delight, move and inspire with his first full-length solo piece,Desh. The piece, which explores Bangladesh and Khan’s relationship to the country of his parents’ origin, fuses Khan’s fluid movement […]

The German artist Paul Klee famously said that ‘drawing is taking a line for a walk’. This simple statement hones in on the essence of form, its freedom and vitality a part of the organic process of creation. Receiving its UK premiere as part of Physical Fest 2013, Daphnis Kokkinos’ physicality in his first solo […]

Park Bench Theatre’s performance makes ample use of what they define as ‘intricate pedestrian gestures along with high energy contact work’. It does need a little explaining, but it is easy to understand once you see their choreography on the stage. As the two performers set out the dinner table and chairs at the beginning […]

Mary Pearson greets us in her dressing gown at the entrance to the Nightingale Theatre, as if she were just out on her front doorstep one morning and had found a bunch of neighbours milling around. The questions are innocuous at first, then a little more searching (going from ‘How are you?’ to ‘How is […]

The Fantasist opens with Theatre Témoin’s signature mix of the realistic and the surreal as the powerfully played protagonist, Louisa, writhes and tosses against the white sheet background that is her bed – a first scene that captures the unease of disturbed sleep as well as creating suspense as to what will happen next. As she performs […]