Well this was a fascinating and somewhat hopeful listen, especially on the day that Badenoch again gets it wrong about cheap vs clean energies.

Looking back at the Lyon Biennale de Danse 2025 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Here’s me on returning to classes at The Place London, only about 40 yrs after I first went to the evening school there. www.instagram.com/reel/DO_ZdLs...

Like many others, I had lots of mixed feelings about Jonathan Watkins’ A Single Man. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

East is East, West is West? The question runs through Europe too. Here is the third in the Critical Distance series, copublished with @mobiustheatre.bsky.social , and Springback Magazine writers. 👇🏽

On cultural performance and natural death. Circumstances meant I had to write in a different and much more personal way than usual. Dedicated to Hilary Ann Roy (1940-2025). springbackmagazine.com/springback-a...

Usually write on dance but am fan of #MauriceRavel. On 150th anniversary of his birth am reposting 2 texts I was superproud to have written. 1)on "small is beautiful" idea of exquisitely composed pieces that are bigger on the inside than on the outside. www.theguardian.com/music/musicb... 1/2

A video interview I did with Sadler’s Wells director Alistair Spalding about their buildings, part of the Places for Dance series at French CND Magazine. (In English! with French subtitles) magazine.cnd.fr/fr/posts/166...

The "ripple-effect" of a life's work in dance: on the living legacy of Trisha Brown. Was wonderful to speak with Carolyn Lucas of Trisha Brown Dance Company about past, present and future of Brown's choreographic legacy. magazine.cnd.fr/en/posts/159...

First Rose choreography award (£40,000)goes to Christos Papadopoulos. First Bloom choreography award (£15,000) to Stav Boutros. @sadlerswells.bsky.social

Mysteries, the unknown, death, extinction. I was REALLY privileged to be able to talk with Simon McBurney & Crystal Pite about the Complicité/Nederlands Dans Theater Figures in Extinction trilogy. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...

Dimanche @mimelondon.bsky.social is funny, clever, disarming and devastating - holding a mirror to our dithering, carry-on-as-normal attitude while climactic climatic catastrophes overtake us all around.

A real highlight of my year (2024) was being haunted by three deep & dark puppet theatre shows by Yngvild Aspeli of Plexus Polaire. Catch their Moby Dick 22-25 Jan @mimelondon.bsky.social Here we talk puppetry, life/death, hunting and of course haunting…

The original “name above the title” was film director Frank Capra, who got higher billing than the film itself. In dance, Matthew Bourne has name-above-title status and this is the work that did most to make that happen. www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/d...

RIP Caroline Miller. Such a shock and a loss. A real (and very human) force of life in the dance world, warmly regarded by so many. Also very funny! Was (among other things) press officer at Southbank Centre and Sadler’s Wells, director of Dance UK, and most recently CEO of Birmingham Royal Ballet

Here’s a short piece I wrote after being pushed off the railway onto the runway by (the irony is lost on no one) by consequences of climate breakdown. springbackmagazine.com/supplement/a...

Guy Maddin has a new film out!! ¡¡ 🤩😍🤩 !! Rumours, UK release date: 6 Dec 24. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tkT...

Small show, big world. I liked this a lot. I've done a lot of dance reviewing but almost no "theatre" - and I wonder how that affects my ways of processing and writing. I will be interested to read theatre reviewers on the same show…

Talking to Michael Keegan-Dolan of Teaċ Daṁsa, about Irishness and openness and Nobodaddy [which plays London's Sadler's Wells next week, 27-30 Nov 2024]

First post on Bluesky! It’s all about the double meaning of “gag” (wish I’d thought of that line when I was writing late last night!) www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/n...