dance art journal

Words by Florence Nicholls. Marco da Silva Ferreira made The Rose Prize shortlist in 2025 for his work CARAÇA, and is now part way through a European tour of his new work, F*cking Future. Ferreira and company will perform on London’s Sadlers Wells East stage on 4-6th of June. As this leg of the tour commences, Dance Art Journal asked the choreographer to expand on how this pr...

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) London’s leading and longest established free festival of outdoor performing arts returns to the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Newham and Thamesmead from Friday 21 August to Sunday 6 September. Building on the success of GDIF’s 30th anniversary in 2025,the award-winning annual festival will be presenting work by over 25 companie...

Words by Rachel Elderkin. NEXT Choreography by Siobhan Davies Studios is a six month programme for anyone aged 18-25 with an interest in exploring and experimenting with dance and choreography, regardless of whether or not they have formal dance training. This opens the programme to participants from a range of creative fields and backgrounds, inviting a broad perspective on ...

Words by Qiao Lin Tan. Almost like a lecture demonstration, No.60 is a thesis and it’s structured like one. The piece starts off with a slideshow showing the 59 fundamental poses in the Thai classical dance of Khon, called the Mae Bot Yai – this is the literature review. The findings? The screen onstage tells us that Circle and Curves is one of the elements of Thai classical ...

Words by Josephine Leask. Liam Francis, looking scholarly in glasses behind a lectern, delivers an informative account of the Australian ground-dwelling Lyrebird’s extraordinary vocal habits, particularly its ability to mimic a variety of natural and artificial sounds from its environment. In creating Lyre/Liar, Francis identified with this unusual bird and its almost human a...