Dance

 From right to left: Brittany Engel-Adams, Vincent McCloskey, Brittany Bailey, and David Thomson in Yvonne Rainer’s Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees? , 2022. Courtesy: Performa and New York Live Arts. Photo: Maria Baranova

From right to left: Brittany Engel-Adams, Vincent McCloskey, Brittany Bailey, and David Thomson in Yvonne Rainer’s Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?, 2022. Courtesy: Performa and New York Live Arts. Photo: Maria Baranova

Premiered in Europe last month at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Yvonne Rainer’s final performance aspires to complicate her legacy on questions of exclusion.

 Performance of Cecilia Bengolea,  La Danse des É l éments , 2022, Esch-Belval. Photo: Elke Walkenhorst © Mudam Luxembourg 

Performance of Cecilia Bengolea, La Danse des Éléments, 2022, Esch-Belval. Photo: Eike Walkenhorst © Mudam Luxembourg 

In Cecilia Bengolea’s work, dancers blend ballet and street culture at a blast furnace. The result is as hot as liquid steel.

 Portrait of the artist © Xavier Le Roy

Portrait of the artist

© Xavier Le Roy

One of the leading figures of 1990s conceptual dance reflects on how memory, conflict and attention have shaped his ongoing project “Retrospective”, recently presented in Berlin

 Meg Stuart performing  Blanket Lady  at ZKM Karlsruhe (2012) © Pietro Pellini

Meg Stuart performing Blanket Lady at ZKM Karlsruhe (2012), © Pietro Pellini

An interview with dance and choreography artist Meg Stuart who is receiving a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award during the Venice Biennale Danza 2018. By Astrid Kaminski

The Austrian-born choreographer talks to Victoria Dejaco about the paradoxes of sexual harassment in dance and her latest work Apollon Musagète, which was recently staged at Tanzquartier Wien

 Adam Linder Service No. 5: Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism , Kunsthalle Basel, 2017. Performers: Leah Katz, Justin F. Kennedy, Noha Ramadan, Stephen Thompson. Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Kunsthalle Basel 

Choreographer and dancer Adam Linder talks to artist Uri Aran about why he dislikes the fetish for realism and the amateur in contemporary performance art

 Figure a Sea, 2015 Dancers of the Cullberg Ballet: In the front: Unn Faleide, Eleanor Campbell, Samuel Draper.  In the back: Barry Brannum, Eszter Czédulás, Paolo Mangiola Photo: Urban Jörén

Figure a Sea, 2015

Dancers of the Cullberg Ballet:
In the front: Unn Faleide, Eleanor Campbell, Samuel Draper. 
In the back: Barry Brannum, Eszter Czédulás, Paolo Mangiola
Photo: Urban Jörén

The choreographer and dancer Deborah Hay talks about the importance of language and the ethics of optimism.

 Archie Burnett

Archie Burnett

Dancer Archie Burnett, the first Father of the House of Ninja, talks about 45 years of Vogue and Waacking