Exploring the absurdity of the fashion culture ‘IT girl’, dance-theatre company dANTE OR dIE brought their promenade piece La Fille à la Mode to the National Theatre this weekend as part of Watch This Space festival. La Fille à la Mode begins with a mysterious woman wielding an accordion who begins to play and, like the Pied Piper […]

Through the glass darkly… And what do we find if we cross the divide? Heaven, hell, or a purgatory of eternal partying? Last Orders uses smoke and mirrors – literally and metaphorically – to explore its twilight world, a dreadful disco of lost souls condemned to a St Vitus’ Dance with no respite. Dominating the stage for […]

In An Imaginary History of Tango – billed as ‘more than just a show, an invitation’ – solo performer Anna Cetti delves into personal experiences of world travel and romance, and explores her relationship to dance in general and tango in particular. This journey unfolds using a range of dance forms featuring, of course, the tango, but […]

Matt Rudkin left the world of professional dance to take a job in the Metropolitan police, but, after some time spent riot training with his new friends, a chance meeting with a busking hula princess (represented to us in the form of a small toy) lead to an epiphany, the development of naïve dance, and […]

So where was I? Ah yes, Stockton! Well, I left there Saturday, heading for the station with a friendly taxi driver who called me ‘pet’, caught a train to Darlington and learnt all about the footie from the Middlesborough supporters, just about made the connection at Darlington, arrived at Edinburgh Station 9pm and got transported […]