Dance: Fragments of Us at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2025

The UK’s leading Black British theatre company, Talawa will premiere an uplifting new outdoor work, “Fragments of Us” as part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival’s 30th anniversary. In collaboration with London-based Black British contemporary dance company FUBUNATION, and theatre and live art practitioner Sonia Hughes, this captivating outdoor work uses movement and spoken word to platform […]

Dance Review: Staatsballett Berlin

Berlin is a very lucky city for its vast, colourful and accessible cultural landscape. One pillar of this is the Staatsballett Berlin.  New artistic director Christian Spuck started the season 2023/2024 with his work, the fabulous BOVARY, based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. With his prima ballerina Weronika Frodyma as his muse and collaborateur […]

Review: Tanz im August – Dance in Berlin

Summer in Berlin means the chance to see top notch dance. The festival Tanz im August (Dance in August) is a showcase for established companies and newcomers and for collaborations between international and local artists in all forms of dance. TOP TIP: It also a great way to dive into Berlin’s culture and event locations […]

Bee’s Pick of the Top 3 from Tanz im August Contemporary Dance Festival

The numbers are impressive: 87 performances, 21 productions, 200 performing artists from 25 countries in seven venues all over Berlin – that’s Tanz im August, one of the most important European festivals for contemporary dance. 2022’s festival saw director Virve Sutinen go out with a bang after nine years and Ricardo Camona, the new director starting […]

Flamenco Festival Returns to Sadler’s Wells

Get your castanets out! Flamenco Festival is returning to Sadler’s Wells for the first time since 2019 with eight dance and four music events across two weeks. Featuring some of the biggest names in the artform, a unique opportunity to see world-class international artists in London. With something for everyone whether you like your Flamenco […]

Dreaming In Code – Contemporary Dance from 2FACED DANCE

2FACED DANCE founded by award-winning Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald, is one of the UK’s leading, all male, urban dance companies whose brand new double bill, ‘DREAMING IN CODE’ will be at the Place in London on March 10th and 11th as part of the UK tour. The new production consists of Milk Night – a poignant and […]