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Matthew Hawkins
SENSUAL ENLIGHTENMENT: Teige Bisnought and Dylan Springer in
Follow the Movement / 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS appreciates an interpretation in dance of James Baldwin’s landmark novel of doomed homosexual desire
Fergus Greer, (L) Leigh Bowery Session 1 Look 2 1988; (R) Le
Follow the movement / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS pays tribute to the performance artist and costumier, Leigh Bowery
MUSLIM WOMEN'S RIGHTS: A mural from the Shaheen Bagh protest
Fiction / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS is drawn into the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India
Cedric Villani, the French mathematician, speaking at a publ
Books / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS admires a writer with the gumption and wit to extend a transformative experience of autism to the reader
REFRESHINGLY IMMEDIATE: Scottish Dance Theatre perform Movin
Follow the movement / 19 August 2024
19 August 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds two evocative new productions that have premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring nationwide
SUFISM AND SEX: Aakash Odedra performs Songs of the Bulbul;
Follow the Movement / 14 August 2024
14 August 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS savours the brilliant dynamism of Brazilian contemporary dance, and Leicester’s own virtuoso of Indian dervishery
Books / 28 May 2024
28 May 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS savours the memoir of growing up in the slums of Glasgow in the 1970s and '80s
Detail from The Last Judgement, Michelangelo, 1541, from the
Books / 20 March 2024
20 March 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS treads warily through the symphonic history of a subject that our present understanding can only obscure
Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips in Lost Soles; L-E-V Dance Compa
Dance / 17 August 2023
17 August 2023
A tap-dancer negotiates non-entity to great effect, while Israelis indulge their own brand of marshalled torture
Shyam Dattani and Giacomo Pini in You & Me
Dance / 15 August 2023
15 August 2023
Matthew Hawkins reviews of A Couple of Humans, Party Scene, You & Me, Woodhill
Mikolaj Karczewski in Stone-Face-Book; Sun Chung-Hsueh and H
Dance / 7 August 2023
7 August 2023
MATTHEW HAWKINS samples the work on offer in an economically trimmed-down Dancebase and puts movement into words