Ololyga: Madison Bycroft’s Soliloquies on Disorientation and the Theatricality of Water
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Madison Bycroft, Uncommitted Barnacle, 2021. Part 2. “Front…
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Hallucinating History: Eszter Salamon on Her New Triptych of Films Inspired by the Life and Oeuvre of Weimar Dance Pioneer Valeska Gert
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Have you ever heard of Valeska Gert? If…
Partial Tomorrows: Ligia Lewis’s deader than dead, the Last Meta-Drama of 2020
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Ligia Lewis, deader than dead, 2020. Performance at…
Something like Saturn: Michael Clark
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. In 1984, for the closing minutes of The…
Divining Future Movements: Where Do We Go from Here?
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “I want a dance where a body moves…
La Ribot’s Deviant, Distinguished Dance
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Spanish choreographer La Ribot, recipient of the 2020…
Dancing at Dusk: Navigating Remoteness on the Digital Stage
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. The film opens on a beach in Toubab…
“Will we lose the memory of what it meant to go to the theatre?” Reflections on Spring Forward 2020 #TheShowMustGoOnline
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Mark Twain said that “there is no such…
Anna Halprin’s Dance Deck
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Anna Halprin’s dance deck, built outdoors on a…
Soldiering On: Touring in the time of coronavirus with Birmingham-based choreographer Rosie Kay
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Having toured extensively around the UK and Europe…
X6 Dance Space (1976–80): Liberation Notes
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “X6 Dance Space (1976–80): Liberation Notes” at London’s…
Is Iris van Herpen the Oskar Schlemmer of the 21st Century?
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. One year ago, I was an intern at…
Reviving Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard: A Choreographic Analysis of Interhuman Relationships
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “Dance, dance, or else we are lost.” So…
Reimagining Weimar Dance: An Interview with Alison Curtis Jones
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Thinker. Artist. Innovator. These are just three words…
Kunststrom für Alle: POWER NIGHT at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. The preserved stained-glass window above the entrance to…
Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Arriving in Sweden in the 1980s, having fled Palestine…