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Watch the Birdie: Sylvia Rimat and PanicLab at Sacred

December 4th, 2015 by

Time is waiting in the wings. Again. Deja Vu. Chelsea Theatre, Sacred Season 2015. A show about the nature, and perception, of time. Last week, Project O’s Voodoo; this week, the new show by Sylvia Rimat, This Moment Now. We start with a riff on time, a beating of time. Sylvia is noticeably absent. We have […]

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Gandini Juggling: meta

December 2nd, 2015 by

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th birthday of seminal North London venue Jacksons Lane, Gandini Juggling’s new show meta is a glorious concoction of many of the ideas that the company have explored over the last 25 years – ultimately recalling their earliest experiments with the choreographer Gill Clarke. Built around Abbott and Costello’s famous baseball […]

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Machine Project: Return to Forever House

November 28th, 2015 by

A blacked out window of a shopfront in the trendy Echo Park area of Los Angeles stands in front of me. The words ‘RETURN TO FOREVER HOSUE’ have been pasted to the window. I wait outside, six others wander up, and we begin to tentatively talk to each other – How did you hear about […]

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O Supergirls: Project O X 2

November 23rd, 2015 by

Dorothy Max Prior sees Project O twice in two weeks: their first work, O, was presented at the Marlborough Brighton, whilst latest work Voodoo premiered at Chelsea Theatre as part of the Sacred season Zebra Katz’ Ima Read blares out, and two figures on all fours – androgynous, anonymous, head-to-toe in black – work their […]

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Simone Aughterlony, Antonija Livingstone, Hahn Rowe: Supernatural

November 23rd, 2015 by

Chop, chop – who’s there? Supernatural is at once hypermodern and as old as the hills. The terrain is a mash-up of made and found, natural and fabricated, objects and beings. Flesh, wood, axes, rope, clothing, moss, electronics … It’s a fairytale land for the modern age. Wilderness versus civilisation? Have both! The smell of […]

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