GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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Follow the Movement: August 17, 2023
A tap-dancer negotiates non-entity to great effect, while Israelis indulge their own brand of marshalled torture
Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips in Lost Soles; L-E-V Dance Company in Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart
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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
ON the track to recognition, starting blocks can be mounted by starlets alongside peers for whom the way ahead will imperceptibly fork. Tap-dancing artistes who totally know their stuff may get shuffled to Wyoming (or elsewhere) for endless earnest address to non-entities.
In Lost Soles (★★★★★) at Assembly Roxy, dancing actor Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips seemingly fritters away quite a bit of stage time setting up unprepossessing retro objects and props, nattering amiably the while.
His moderate pace is deceptive. Key moments arise. Abrupt set-pieces convulse with layered information and skill. Such flurries open portals to a world we could fruitfully acknowledge — the world of the unsung.
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