By Sanjoy Roy The London International Mime Festival is of tangential yet special interest for dancegoers. Now in its fourth decade, it encompasses a vast range of hybrid performance styles with one common factor: the body is the primary medium. Gandini Juggling Project graced the festival in 2017 with Smashed, a riotous tribute to Pina
By Sanjoy Roy In the wake of Valentine’s Day, it was not romance but its aftermath that took centre stage in the London dance scene. Not the rosy coupledom that romantics dream of, but marriages of dysfunction, madness, deception, crossed purposes and dissolution — all of them, as it happened, licensed by Shakespeare. Opening on
by Sanjoy Roy Tamara Rojo, still boldly pushing the envelope for English National Ballet since her appointment as director in 2012, has commissioned a new version of Giselle from Akram Khan, whose reputation rests on his combination of training in kathak and contemporary dance. Reading his synopsis for this reimagined version, I was struck by