Rosie Kay’s latest work, There Is Hope, is intelligent, thoughtful, soothing and provocative. A deliberate use of set and visual imagery throughout the performance, alongside strong musicality, all serve to express the power of thought behind the movement on stage. The figure of a preacher is repeatedly overtaken, possessed almost, by these mediums, as the blare [...]

What is Argentina’s most successful export? Aside from the excellent Malbec wines produced in the high-altitude conditions of Mendoza province, and perhaps football deities like Messi and Maradona, only one answer remains: the passionate Latin dance which originated in working-class districts of Buenos Aires. Tango has become something of a global phenomenon, reflected in the [...]

In this piece, Michael Clark buddies up with Jarvis Cocker, bringing to the Barbican a company of dancers to present and explore his experimental, spontaneous imagination. Clark uses the simplicity of the first half as an introduction to the explosive second, showing the sincere skill, control and elegance each dancer posesses. Throughout the first half, [...]

There are many different ways to be conventional. We can dress the same as those around us, we can fall in love with the kind of people our parents expect us to and we can subscribe wholeheartedly to the cultural traditions established many decades ago. In And We Gather – two dances split down gendered [...]