Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Mixed blessings in Phoenix commemoration of Windrush arrival
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Phoenix Dance Theatre: Mixed Programme
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds/Touring
PHOENIX Dance Theatre’s latest mixed programme comes with much anticipation for new piece Windrush: Movement of the People.
A commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush's arrival in Britain with emigrants from the Caribbean, it headlines a bill that opens with Aletta Collins’s Maybe Yes Maybe, Maybe No Maybe.
Created in 2009, the company favourite turns the voices of five dancers into a bold electronic soundtrack. Wittily blending beats with movement, the action is framed within a shifting circle of light in the centre of which dangles a solitary microphone.
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