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Solos and Duets
MATTHEW HAWKINS samples the work on offer in an economically trimmed-down Dancebase and puts movement into words
Mikolaj Karczewski in Stone-Face-Book; Sun Chung-Hsueh and Hsia Ling in Duo
[Courtesy dancebase/Chao-Sheng Ho]
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
DANCE BASE is a purpose-built facility that runs year-round. Home to a vibrant array of activity, and formerly hosting a great crush of Edinburgh Festival Fringe events, the venue now vaults a chasm of post-Covid uncertainty with the specifics of its 2023 programme, as co-curated (for the first time) with the Assembly franchise.
We are in something of an edit.
I took a look at a sequence of four works, taking the form of duets and solos, in the single available performing space, other vast studios on the premises are tabled-up and serving as industry hubs.
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