Dance

At the Frontiers of movement

As an art form, contemporary dance is mercifully free of constraints. Unlike theatre or poetry, it doesn’t depend on a particular language. Unlike music, it doesn’t utilise a particular form or structure based on scales or tempos. Dance has the [… more]
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Comment: 5 December 2024

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use Charles M Schulz Gaza Mon Amour A group of 50+ Palestinian artists is trying to set up [… more]
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Comment: 28 November 2024

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it Samuel Johnson Documenting the UAE The inaugural Dhikhr Award, launched by the NYUAD Institute [… more]
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Comment: 21 November 2024

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest Public art We’ve updated our sort-of guide to Abu Dhabi’s Public Art Biennial: check it out here, and we’re also listing associated public events in the Agenda The word from our people on the ground is [… more]
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Comment: 14 November 2024

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest More Tides The Art Gallery at NYUAD is extending Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial – originally due to close 8 December, it will now stay open to 20 April. This is good news: it’s a [… more]
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Comment: 7 November 2024

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The Art Fair beat Takeaways from last month’s London-Paris art fairs: Frieze London / Frieze Masters and Art Basel Paris are different enough, they both have really good satellites like 1:54 at Somerset [… more]