As the world of culture begins tentatively to open up again, Trinity Laban has announced a packed programme of performances to suit every...

Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...

Music is a global language, a truth that has been underscored by its primacy around the world during the Covid-19 lockdown. And no one...

At what must be one of the weirdest times most of us has ever experienced, all-female dance collective Mass Hysteria have conjured up a...

Like all great art, dance requires no explanation – it simply demands that we open our hearts and minds to a transcendent experience. And...

Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...

Fest en Fest is a dance event like no other, concerning itself over three days with the evolution of dance in a series of discussions,...

© Andrej Uspenski Life is a mass of contradictions, paradoxes, emotional swings and, ultimately, a realisation that our very uniqueness...

It’s impossible to come out of Trinity Laban musical theatre department’s epic production of the Broadway hit City Of Angels without...

Producers routinely spend millions to satisfy the public’s apparently unquenchable thirst for special effects. Yet a simple idea that...

Artists are drawn to the darker side of the human condition – for every enigmatic Mona Lisa smile or Ode To Joy there are any number of...

A stunning show at Laban theatre by Deaf Men Dancing contained any number of great moments – but the best for me was a simple...

Age Against The Machine, an epic three-week festival across Lewisham promoting creative ageing, reached its triumphant climax on Sunday...

Dance films have to be so much more than just performances captured on film – they have to be cinematic artworks in their own right. And...

If you ever wanted an example of the diversity dance is capable of providing you’d struggle to find a better one than Transitions’ triple...

Humanity at its most primordial was at the heart of three new works performed with great artistry, wit and menace by the Mapdance company...

Meaning only reveals itself slowly in great art. But while you are striving to discover it, you can revel in the beauty of the medium....

One of the themes of Polish Dance Theatre’s extraordinary production Forefathers’ Eve_Copy.Doc is that images more accurately express our...

A drag queen outSummering Donna Summer, a Dutch jazz trio jamming with Donald Trump, a Brahms’ hymn and an anti-Brexit rant set to Handel...

Arthouse films tend to be either great or dreadful with no middle ground, so consciously setting out to make one is a dangerous game. But...

A dazzling central performance sent an already great production of the musical Cabaret into artistic orbit at Laban theatre and surely...

Dance, sound, film and light joined forces in choreographer Marina Collard’s existential investigation entitled What This Is, Is… at...

Contemporary dance is like abstract expressionist art – both are pure forms of collaboration between creator and viewer. This thought...

This Really Is Too Much risked being exactly that – too much. Part dance, part spoken word, part slapstick, part feminist tract and all...

Krump is a form of hiphop street dance from LA that features highly stylised moves designed to echo gang violence, so the bloody story of...

Life as a progression interrupted by brief encounters and occasional relapses was the theme of a Transitions Dance Company triple bill...

World-famous choreographer Wayne McGregor has spent 25 years probing the mysteries of the human soul. His new work, Autobiography, takes...