Dance

There’s a strain of contemporary dance that places all the emphasis on shapes and movement, the exploration of spatial possibilities as an end in itself. It can sometimes seem austere and unemotional, sometimes gloomy and apocalyptic. That’s not what you [ … ]

It can be difficult to pin down the unique value of contemporary dance. Yes, there’s the departure from traditional dance forms, breaking away from the constraints of strict choreographic rules and embracing the possibilities of experimentation and individual expression. But [ … ]

Just what is modern dance? What is its vocabulary, what are its rules? Where do its limitations lie – if at all? And how does dance relate to other disciplines, other ways of thinking – indeed, how does it relate [ … ]