Springback Magazine

31/07/2024

Ariadne Mikou dives into the second edition of Lugano Dance Project that brought location, site and architecture into focus

31/07/2024

Ariadne Mikou dives into the second edition of Lugano Dance Project that brought location, site and architecture into focus

LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura

https://springbackmagazine.com/read/dance-architecture-lugano-dance-project-2024/

29/07/2024

Follow Lydia Wharf’s journey across different places for in times of unrest.

26/07/2024

Robin Lamothe on In and Off

"Welcome to the Festival d’Avignon: 38 degrees in the shade (if you can find any), crowded restaurants, millions of flyers on the ground, and posters of varying degrees of interest. You meet people you haven’t seen for ages, and others you hoped you’d never see again. And then there are those titles of works that are so revolting because they perpetuate clichés. A nod to the company that named its play ‘Darling, I’ve cheated on you (and that’s not the worst of it)’ with an editorial that reads: ‘He’s a racist and his wife is cheating on him with an illegal immigrant.’ Get the picture? Ah, Avignon, where theatrical fantasy sometimes meets the comedy of the absurd, and where we wonder if our presence there isn’t a performance in itself."

Read on: link in bio

26/07/2024

Robin Lamothe on In and Off d'Avignon Festival Off d'Avignon

"Welcome to the Festival d’Avignon: 38 degrees in the shade (if you can find any), crowded restaurants, millions of flyers on the ground, and posters of varying degrees of interest. You meet people you haven’t seen for ages, and others you hoped you’d never see again. And then there are those titles of works that are so revolting because they perpetuate clichés. A nod to the company that named its play ‘Darling, I’ve cheated on you (and that’s not the worst of it)’ with an editorial that reads: ‘He’s a racist and his wife is cheating on him with an illegal immigrant.’ Get the picture? Ah, Avignon, where theatrical fantasy sometimes meets the comedy of the absurd, and where we wonder if our presence there isn’t a performance in itself."

Read on: https://springbackmagazine.com/read/avignon-festival-2024-dance-in-and-off/

17/07/2024

Brazilian performance coursed through the Holland Festival this year, a river of many currents…

An article by .douglass

11/07/2024

Dance artists from all over Europe and beyond settle in the Agora – International City of Dance for a historic summer

An article by Callysta Croizer

"2024 is a year of many changes for Montpellier Danse, a dance festival initiated by Dominique Bagouet in 1981 in the wake of the Nouvelle danse current. This 44th edition was the last directed by Jean-Paul Montanari, after over four decades at the head of the event."

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11/07/2024

Dance artists from all over Europe and beyond settle in the Agora – International City of Dance for a historic summer

An article by Callysta Croizer

"2024 is a year of many changes for Montpellier Danse, a dance festival initiated by Dominique Bagouet in 1981 in the wake of the Nouvelle danse current. This 44th edition was the last directed by Jean-Paul Montanari, after over four decades at the head of the event."

Montpellier Danse

Dance artists from all over Europe and beyond settle in the Agora – International City of Dance for a historic summer festival

10/07/2024

The losses of community and continuity faced by Athens’ Duncan Dance Research Center are all too familiar stories for dance artists – but the struggle continues, for the sake of both past and future

an article by Anastasio Koukoutas

https://springbackmagazine.com/read/continuity-duncan-dance-research-center-athens/

10/07/2024

Georgia Howlett tells us about a window onto an ongoing exchange project between dance artists in Africa and in Europe

A window onto an ongoing exchange project between dance artists in Africa and in Europe

25/06/2024

Robin Lamothe digests Danse Élargie 20 shows in a day at the biennale competition for new choreography – so that you don’t have to

Théâtre de la Ville - Paris

Robin Lamothe digests 20 shows in a day at the biennale competition for new choreography – so that you don’t have to

20/06/2024

encounter at
From left to right :
Lorenzo Conti, co-curator of Lugano Dance Project
Callysta Croizer, writing for Mouvement (France)
Emily May, writing for Tanz (Germany)
Ariadne Mikou, writing for Springback Magazine

04/06/2024

‘Sweet roaring’ promised this year’s Dansa València festival of national and international dance

Riikka Laakso attended the 37th edition of the annual Dansa València Festival of national and international dance that took place from 13–21 April 2024. Its subtitle, ‘Dulce rugir’ (‘sweet roaring’) suggests a feline murmur – whether purr or growl – as well as the low rumbling of thunder; either way, promising multiple experiences for the audience. I attended the last three days of the festival, which offered a full choreographic menu around the city’s singular venues.

https://springbackmagazine.com/read/dansa-valencia-2024/

28/05/2024

Can beauty be a form of resistance? Can dance transform people, systems?

Maria Palma Teixeira speaks with Catarina Câmara about an ongoing prison project using dance to explore both chains and changes

"I’m parked outside the Linhó Prison in Cascais, Portugal, waiting for the torrential rain to stop. The building was inaugurated in 1955, during the dictatorial regime, and now houses around 500 inmates, most between the ages of 20 and 30, according to a prison guard. I’m here to watch a contemporary dance class of CORPOEMCADEIA (‘body in chain’, literally translated, which in Portuguese plays with the double meaning of ‘cadeia’ as chain/prison), a dance project for inmates initiated in 2019 by Catarina Câmara with the support of Companhia Olga Roriz and the Portuguese Directorate General for Reintegration and Prison Services."

Read: https://springbackmagazine.com/read/dance-prison-corpoemcadeia/

16/05/2024

Liza Weber reviews Simone Mousset's 'The Passion of Andrea 2': part Passion Play, part Monty Python, a performance for a three-in-one trio of characters called Andrea

The Place

Part Passion Play, part Monty Python, a performance for a three-in-one trio of characters called Andrea

14/05/2024

Two (relative) youngsters share their experiences of a festival for (relative) oldsters.

"We meet in the foyer of Sadler’s Wells, where three screens are showing dance films on loop, headphones dangling. ‘I don’t like to talk about age,’ shrugs veteran Bausch performer Malou Airaudo in Sarah Vaughan-Jones’ film ‘No Space for Age’ (2022), ‘There is no space for that on stage.’ Afterwards in a pub, Liza wonders how exactly we’re going to talk about age in our article. Dom doesn’t know. Can we say elderly people? Not old, surely. We agree on older dancers."

An article about Sadler's Wells Elixir Festival by Liza Weber and Dom Czapski

Two (relative) youngsters share their experiences of a festival for (relative) oldsters

10/05/2024

Francesc Nel·lo Deakin wonders: could the phenomenal rise of AI-generated media make us value live performance all the more? Take a read! [link in bio]

09/05/2024

Read take on London's Taiwan Festival

"The first major festival of Taiwanese culture to grace London makes its home at The Coronet Theatre. This ‘Victorian jewel’ is a darkly lit, antiquated secret of a theatre, to which the festival brings a landscape of creations both ultra-modern and traditional. It’s a feast for the eyes and a pleasant contradiction. Dance and theatre makers present their work surrounded by free events featuring VR, thematic beverages, and serene installations of Taiwanese craftsmanship, extra elements that evoke the wider artistic context of Taiwan’s contemporary arts scene."
Read on!

Link in bio!

09/05/2024

Read Georgia Howlett take on London's Taiwan Festival

"The first major festival of Taiwanese culture to grace London makes its home at The Coronet Theatre. This ‘Victorian jewel’ is a darkly lit, antiquated secret of a theatre, to which the festival brings a landscape of creations both ultra-modern and traditional. It’s a feast for the eyes and a pleasant contradiction. Dance and theatre makers present their work surrounded by free events featuring VR, thematic beverages, and serene installations of Taiwanese craftsmanship, extra elements that evoke the wider artistic context of Taiwan’s contemporary arts scene."

Read on!

Tech, tailfeathers and tomatoes feature in the dance outings of London’s Taiwan Festival of contemporary arts

30/04/2024

Anastasio Koukoutas' review of Euripides Laskaridis's Lapis Lazuli

In the latest of his surreal, anthropomorphic and monstrous masquerades, Laskaridis puts fear into the frame

In the latest of his surreal, anthropomorphic and monstrous masquerades, Laskaridis puts fear into the frame

15/04/2024

Oonagh Duckworth dives into Les Brigittines - Playhouse for Movement three-day season on the sea exploring the poetics of submerged perspectives.

"In March 2024, le Brigittines theatre in Brussels hosted a three-day event of conferences, workshops, performances and lectures under the title Ici Commence La Mer (‘here begins the sea’). (...) The Brigittines’ idea was to immerse participants in the serious issues surrounding our impact on the sea and the life within it. The event was not about sounding an alarm bell but preferred to make poetics the ally of action. Described as a campaign of ‘sensibilisation’, the combination of each strand – political, educational, performative and practical – contributed to a dramaturgy intending to heighten our awareness of both the art and the problems being addressed."

A three-day season on the sea explores the poetics of submerged perspectives

05/04/2024

Sanjoy Roy reviews Moritz Ostruschnjak’s Trailer Park, for tanzmainz, Staatstheater Mainz Ensemble.

"A finger-in-the-socket mainline to the queasy pleasures of our dystopian times"

Moritz Ostruschnjak

An energetic and unnervingly zeitgeisty work that both comes from and speaks to our age

02/04/2024

Evgeny Borisenko wonders:
What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions?

"While showcasing experimental formats and fostering unconventional artistic visions, Tanztage Berlin remains true to its ideals and also tunes into the present. And what is indeed the present we are living in?"

What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions?

25/03/2024

It's been a pleasure to meet the Springbacak Academy Class 2024 in person at Aerowaves in Darmstadt, Wiesbaden and Mainz!
As the director of the Academy, Oonagh Duckworth, puts it they are 13 inquisitive, imaginative, inspired and inspiring writers from Europe and beyond.

They have been mentored by: Sanjoy Roy, Laura Cappelle, Donald Hutera, Kelly Apter and Emily May

You can read their reviews of the performances: https://springbackmagazine.com/springback-academy/

12/03/2024

Georgia Howlett and Lena Megyeri on

Two takes on a cinematic dance scene that is simultaneously strange and mighty

Two takes on a cinematic dance scene that is simultaneously strange and mighty

11/03/2024

Evgeny Borisenko wonders: What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions?

Tanztage Berlin

What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions?

06/02/2024

Read Elsa Vinet second article on Festival d'Automne à Paris last edition, in which she focuses on group shows, and very contrasting energies and inspirations.

https://springbackmagazine.com/read/paris-festival-d-automne-2023-part-2/

03/08/2023

Callysta Croizer plunges into a jam-packed day of dance in Avignon.

7 performances of On (y) danse aussi l’été ! programme presented by Les Hivernales - CDCN .

Read: https://springbackmagazine.com/read/hivernales-on-y-danse-aussi-l-ete-2023/