Bodies that matter: Ka Bradley writes on digital dance performances from Splayed Festival, which put focus on disabled and queer bodies, exploring how they negotiate the world.
Ka Bradley
Articles by Ka Bradley
21 August 2020
Reviews • Dance • Redux Reviews
Redux review: Manon
By Ka Bradley
Come to the party: Ka Bradley reflects on two communal viewings of Manon – one on a big screen, one on a small screen.
29 July 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux Review: Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
By Ka Bradley
Dancing with death: Ka Bradley reckons with Pina Bausch’s mesmerising dance ritual, across multiple encounters
19 June 2020
Reviews
Review: The Cats Outside My Window
By Ka Bradley
“Audience members are encouraged to follow their own instincts” at the wild immersive show that unfolds daily outside Ka Bradley’s window.
18 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Hard to Be Soft; Hope Hunt/ The Ascension into Lazarus
10th October
By Ka Bradley
The real deal: Ka Bradley writes on three dance pieces by Oona Doherty, exploring masculinity and working-class communities in Northern Ireland.
2 October 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: REDD at Barbican
26 September - 5 October
By Ka Bradley
‘The twitch of the familiar’: Ka Bradley writes on Boy Blue’s new dance piece exploring grief.
8 June 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Wild Card: Stefan Jovanović’s Constellations at Sadler’s Wells
6-8th June
By Ka Bradley
Chaos magic: Ka Bradley writes on Stefan Jovanović’s confusing, genre-blurring queer dance piece.
11 April 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: She Persisted at Sadler’s Wells
4-13th April
By Ka Bradley
‘Repeated motions that create, segment by segment, a single monumental achievement’: Ka Bradley writes on English National Ballet’s triple-bill of work by female choreographers.
18 January 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Night with Thick & Tight
By Ka Bradley
The performers are ‘like cultured magpies, drawing together a soundtrack of found media and famous scenes’: Ka Bradley writes on dance duo Thick & Tight’s triple bill.
12 November 2018
Reviews
Review: Imagined Touch at Barbican
7th - 11th November
By Ka Bradley
‘Bafflement, interest and curiosity’: Ka Bradley writes on Jodee Mundee’s immersive insight into the lives of deafblind people.
31 July 2018
Reviews • Dance • Reviews
Review: Autobiography at Sadler’s Wells
26-28 July
By Ka Bradley
Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography places privacy at the heart of the public performance.
24 July 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: East Wall at Tower of London
18 - 22 July 2018
By Ka Bradley
‘A celebration of the blood and guts’: Ka Bradley reviews Hofesh Shechter Company’s collaboration with over 100 young dancers.
23 June 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: AÏ•E: Whist at Sadler’s Wells
19 - 23 June 2018
By Ka Bradley
‘Here I am, and they’re eating me’: Ka Bradley reviews a dance work that makes use of virtual reality technology.
16 June 2018
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Smack That (a conversation) at Barbican
12 - 16 June 2018
By Ka Bradley
‘We’re all Beverlys here’: Ka Bradley reviews Rhiannon Faith’s dance-based work about domestic abuse.
30 April 2018
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: TORO: Beauty and the Bull at Sadler’s Wells
25 - 26 April 2018
By Ka Bradley
An all too real horror story: Ka Bradley reviews DeNada Dance Theatre’s radical rewrite of the famous fairytale