There aren’t many artistic directors of theatres with a capacity of 1500 seats who would commission a show for an audience of only 200. Yet that is exactly what Alistair Spalding of Sadler’s Wells has done for Clod Ensemble’s An Anatomie in Four Quarters, which although it doesn’t quite live up to its potential, nevertheless playfully […]

I decided to see 60 Minutes of Opportunism knowing precious little about Ivana, her work or this particular piece, just taking the words and image from the Basement’s brochure as my guide. The seating is raked up one end of the space, with a long and empty vista ahead. Into this walks Ivana, wearing a green top, […]

Fabulous Beast’s artistic director Michael Keegan-Dolan has been friends with Hothouse Flowers lead man Liam Ó Maonlaí for many years. For Rian, they have brought both of their passions together to create a joyous evening of traditional Irish music with Keegan-Dolan’s contemporary choreography. At the outset, eight dancers and five musicians sit amongst an array of […]

Placing Dan Canham and Augusto Corrieri’s work together on one bill was evidence of a canny bit of curating by The Nightingale’s Steve Brett: both artists are young men trained in contemporary dance who create performance works that sit somewhere within the dance, theatre and live art triangle – clever, entertaining and curious (in all […]

Five athletic dancers scuttle and shift across a grey stage. Ticks and jerks punctuate their otherwise fluid movement, hands caress feet and bodies block one another. In Jean Abreu’s vision of prison an incarcerated man is akin to a butterfly pinned in a display box. Inside is inspired by the idea that a society’s jails are […]