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Matthew Hawkins
Giovanni
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
bowery 1
Follow the movement / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS pays tribute to the performance artist and costumier, Leigh Bowery
heart
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
autism
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
SDT
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
petals
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
slum boy
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
desire
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
HAWKINS
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
dance main pic
Dance / 15 August 2023
15 August 2023
Matthew Hawkins reviews of A Couple of Humans, Party Scene, You & Me, Woodhill
dance
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