‘Three days, three cities, three theatres – Infinite ways to imagine the future of dance’ – This is the tagline that greets you when you visit Dansathon‘s website. Exciting in concept, the initiative sets out to push the performance genre of dance to a new level. Fusing the latest tech with some of the world’s most forward thinking dance practitioners and performance makers, innovations in how we perceive dance will be challenged. Dance Producer JiaXuan Hon tells us more about the forward thinking initiative!

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An Adventure traces the story of Jyoti and Rasik as they travel across India and Kenya before settling in the United Kingdom. The audience watches their adventure begin in 1950s and sees how their lives unfold as each act jumps a bit farther into the future until recounting their lives in 2018.

Courtesy of Helen Murray.

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Earlier this year artistic director Indhu Rubasingham announced that the Tricycle Theatre would be changing its name to Kiln Theatre as part of the much needed £7 million ‘Tricycle Transformed’ development project that has taken over two years to complete.

Courtesy of Mark Douet.

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Abney Park is a beautifully atmospheric and haunting cemetery in the heart of Stoke Newington, and huge credit to director Lil Warren for using it to stage 09 Lives’new production here. The Valour of Robin Hood is a new play by first time playwright Amii Griffiths, and it’s great fun.

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 Ashita No Kaze (Winds of Change) Vol 2 Japanese Contemporary Plays and Playwrights Festival is a month long initiative celebrating Japan’s brightest playwriting talent. A collaboration between Yellow Earth, StoneCrabs and OneTwoWorks, the festival’s ethos to start up conversations with both the playwright and translator gives the festival a uniqueness. We talk to Yellow Earth Co-Founder and Artistic Director Kumiko Mendl about this year’s festival!

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Alan Bennett’s amusing yet hard hitting play of love and loss takes audiences into the rehearsal room of a piece which explores the joys and tribulations of art as we know it. Educational in parts, Bennett is clearly trying to send a clear and concentrated message to the audience, one which he does with upbeat charm and subtle intent.

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The mythical Phoenix, rising from the ashes is emblematic in everyday culture of something that is destroyed and then reborn. It was after a massive fire engulfed and reduced Battersea Art Centre’s historic Grand Hall in 2015 that a Phoenix rose in the form of a hashtag, #bacphoenix, which inspired thousands on Twitter in an outpouring of generosity and support.

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Dance Nation showcases the distinctive, refreshing voice of writer Clare Barron with highly engaging performances from its eminently likeable, predominantly female cast, most of them playing pre-teens, all of them adults.

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In this adaptation of Albert Camus’ La Peste, entitled The Plague, Neil Bartlett creates a contemporary version of the existential novel that is chilling. While the adaptation is very loyal to Camus’ novel, there are two noticeable elements missing from Bartlettt’s version: exact date and location.

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Pioneered in the 1970s, the genre of hip hop has gone onto dominate pop culture. A musical style originating from the Bronx, the form was built on the foundations of 5 particular elements which are MCing, DJing, Grafitti, Knowledge and lastly breakdance. Amazing audiences in the US for 25 years, Cedric Walker‘s UniverSoul Circus celebrates hip hop culture with their latest line up of circus acts originating from Africa and the Caribbean.

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