James Varney writes on live art festival Transform, and explores how its line-up intertwines with the Leeds streets that surround it.
Performance
5 November 2018
Features • Ipswich • Performance
SPILL Festival 2018
By Ava Wong Davies
A mushrooming community: Ava Wong Davies writes on the intimacy and kindness of the works at this year’s instalment of performance art fest SPILL.
24 November 2017
Features • Essays • Performance
Aesthetics Off Centre
By Alice Saville
As $elfie$ comes to Hackney Showroom, Malik Nashad Sharpe explores the Black and Queer contexts behind their performance.
21 November 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: The Body is a Sanctuary That Floats at Tramway, Glasgow
November 16
By Andrew Edwards
Walking in the air: Storyboard P’s Afrofuturist performance defies gravity to put a smile on your face.
7 November 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: Shorelines at Tramway, Glasgow
November 1 - November 2
By Andrew Edwards
“A grief whose depths I can’t imagine”: Andrew Edwards reviews a sonic meditation on the North Sea Flood of 1953.
24 October 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: As a Tiger in the Jungle at Jackson’s Lane
October 10 - October 11
By Kate Wyver
“It feels like an act of self-harm”: Kate Wyver on Sverre Waage’s three-man show featuring performers sold into the circus as children.
29 June 2017
Reviews • Glasgow • National • Performance • Reviews
Review: Nomanslanding at Tramway, Glasgow
June 22 - July 2
By Andrew Edwards
A strange sort of hope: Andrew Edwards reflects on the Glasgow iteration of this collaborative, international, interdisciplinary artwork.
31 May 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: How to Survive a Post-Truth Apocalypse at Watch Out Festival, Cambridge
May 27
By Claire Takami Siljedahl
Claire Takami Siljedahl reviews Francesca Beard’s new show about truth and deception at Cambridge’s Watch Out Festival.
30 May 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: Bi-Curious George and Other Side Kicks at Watch Out Festival, Cambridge
May 27
By Lily James
A new, funny, cross intimacy: Lily James reviews Lucy and Addrian Hutson’s father-and-daughter performance at Cambridge’s Watch Out Festival
30 May 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: Word at Watch Out Festival, Cambridge
May 27
By Lily James
Enormous, terrifying power: Lily James writes on taking part in Jamal Harewood’s follow up to The Privileged, a collaborative show about the impact of words.
9 May 2017
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Review: Draw To Look at the Royal West of England Academy
April 2 - May 7
By Kate Wyver
The gentle tracing of our pens on paper: Kate Wyver draws Hannah Sullivan in her “infinitely delicate” one-on-one participatory show in Bristol.
7 January 2016
Features • Performance
SPILL Writing
By Diana Damian Martin
Poetics, conversations and form in critical writing: a series of post-Spill Festival reflections.
5 January 2016
Features • Performance
Feminism, Age and Performance: Old Dears
By Diana Damian Martin
Lois Keidan on the curated programme of talks and performances, Old Dears, at Chelsea Theatre.
22 December 2015
Reviews • Performance • Reviews
Rose English: A Premonition of the Act
Camden Arts Centre ⋄ 12th December 2015 - 6th March 2016
By Diana Damian Martin
‘A voice can break, a flyer can fall and glass can shatter.’
15 December 2015
Features • Performance
Love Letters to a (Post-) Europe
By Diana Damian Martin
Curator Lisa Alexander on a festival exploring European solidarity through love, action and provocation.