Meta-dance is really on trend this season. The three shows I see at Dance Base in swift succession (Dancer and a double bill, A:Version and Pitch) all deconstruct their process and let the audience see their ‘undercrackers,’ as the late Adrian Howells would have put it. Adrian was a collaborator in Dancer, made with Ian […]

There is an interesting cultural dynamic that has arisen in recent years, in tandem with the emergence of affordable technologies and the ever-spreading rash of creative hybridisation of form, media, medium and delivery. This dynamic concerns sound systems, and is something that I became aware of a couple of years ago when a theatre director […]

Behind the dazzling lights of the theatre is an invisible world backstage. In Teatro Delusio, that world is revealed and explored by a wonderful ensemble who use masks, puppetry, illusion and robust physical performance. It is a word-free show, but with a distinct narrative – and an example of how well physical/visual theatre can tell […]

Two dinosaurs are held next to one another: the little one is a baby, the big one is 31; the little one is 8 – the big one, 39; the little one is 16 – the big one is… gone. Vanessa (Helen Vinton), chief dinosaur manipulator and post-doctoral researcher, is a white-coat-clad scientist, with two […]

LCP Dance Theatre are an award-winning aerial dance company, whose work aims to raise awareness of human rights issues, using stage performance, live music and film; using real life stories as their starting point. Their work, here and elsewhere, seeks to illuminate the interrelationships between art and the real world – reflecting the  political, economic, […]