Image description: Pepa Ubera, photographed by Noemie Reijnen. Pepa Ubera is a deft builder of worlds: a choreographer, researcher and multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs performance, installation and immersive tech. This week she premieres The Machine of Horizontal Dreams at…
Image description: Black Power Desk production shot. Photo by Helen Murray London multi-hyphenate Urielle Klein-Mekongo returns with swagger: the writer-performer behind Yvette now turns historian-DJ, spinning a fearless new Black British musical that thumps with lovers rock, rap, soul and…
Image: Fucktoys Here to help you look beyond the red-carpet glare: the 69th BFI London Film Festival serves up a 247-strong programme of films, series and immersive works, threaded through eight thematic strands – from Love and Debate to Dare,…
Image description: LM TESTO Wet Mess. Credit: Lesley Martin I love London. That was one of the things that lured me to the Southbank Centre, being able to contribute to its incredible cultural life and even shake it up a…
On opening day at BFI LFF, Georgia “Zeta” Gkoka’s short You Can Call Me Lou joins the Roots and Branches programme – a tender portrait of Louise Kramer, an ex-dancer whose 1980s transition is remembered through movement, memory and chosen…
Freddie Opoku-Addaie, long-time friend of Run Riot and Co-CEO and Artistic Director of Dance Umbrella, steers this year’s festival like a generous host, inviting both first-timers and die-hard dance lovers to meet a vibrant mix of perspectives and tune into…
Founded in Birzeit in 2006, The Palestinian Circus School (PCS) builds artists as well as audiences: an Educational programme that reaches roughly 200 children annually in its Childhood strand, 50 in disability-inclusive ‘Passion’, and 100 in ‘Inhale’ for girls and…
There’s a quiet but undeniable revolution happening in the world of nightlife. It’s not in the VIP lounges or beneath the strobes of glossy mega-clubs. It’s happening in forgotten warehouses, in cramped kitchens, in parks and industrial estates where young…
Image credit: Lead Host Danni Ebanks-Ingram converses with a guest. Photographer: Hannah Davis
Image: Cardboard Citizens, photo by Ike Laseiende. Ensemble Festival returns to London’s Royal Docks on the 20 & 21 July. Produced by East London arts development organisation Certain Blacks, Ensemble once again presents an action-packed programme of circus, street theatre,…