Siobhan Davies

Industry Pro Newsletter: Can the Arts Adapt? Australia Looks at a 4-Day Work Week in the Arts

Groundbreaking research in London measures brain activity during live dance performances, hinting at the powerful, collective connection audiences feel. Meanwhile, financial pressures are prompting some theaters to close while others push for new ticketing and funding strategies to survive. Broadway faces calls for a more inclusive approach to honoring its artists, and discussions grow around adopting a four-day work week in the arts to combat burnout.

Guest Blog: 'Dance is a Very Queer Space': Dancer Zinzi Minott on her New Solo Show BLACK ON BLACK at Sadler's Wells

Black on Black is my solo dance performance that explores queerness, Blackness and the body as an archive. I’ve always been interested in complicating the boundaries of dance and this show is a kind of audio-visual, sensory performance set within a multi-screen visual installation of archive footage.

Upcoming Performances Revealed For emilyn claid, UNTITLED

Emilyn is a queer performer in her eighth decade, with a career as a choreographer, writer, director and teacher stretching back to the 1960s. In emilyn claid, UNTITLED, her first solo work in 20 years, she welcomes the fears of endings, teasing with what it means to bow out, the irony of living in an old body and what's real and what's imagined.

Zinzi Minott Explores Queerness, Blackness, and The Body As An Archive in BLACK ON BLACK

Zinzi Minott makes her Lilian Baylis Studio debut this September with Black on Black, a solo dance performance exploring Queerness, Blackness and the body as an archive.

Sadler's Wells Launches New Productions For 2023

Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK's critically acclaimed production of Message In A Bottle, choreographed by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince and set to the iconic hits of Sting, returns to the Peacock Theatre for a limited run this autumn.

Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Edward Watson Retires After 27 Years

Celebrated Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Edward Watson makes his final performance with the Company on Saturday 30th October in Wayne McGregor's critically acclaimed new work The Dante Project.

Luca Silvestrini's Protein Announce Next Double Bill Of Streamed Performances 

Following a double bill of Silvestrini's work for HeadSpaceDance streamed at the start of the month, Luca Silvestrini's Protein continue their Protein 21 Remix digital series with Ride and Stairworks featuring Luca himself. The provocative duet Ride oscillates between aspiration and desire, unbridled passion and respectability, and is accompanied by Stairworks, a piece performed on outdoor staircases by men wearing only white bath towels.  

Dance Umbrella Announces Virtual Festival For 2020

2020 marks the 42nd year of Dance Umbrella and Emma Gladstone's 7th and final year as Artistic Director and Chief Executive for the organisation before she will step down.

Merce Cunningham Trust Announces Summer & Fall 2019 Programming For Global Centennial Celebration

Today the Merce Cunningham Trust announces Summer & Fall 2019 programming for the worldwide Merce Cunningham Centennial, which unites artists, companies, and cultural and educational institutions in a celebration of Cunningham's vital impact. Launched in the fall of 2018 and continuing throughout all of 2019, the Centennial honors Cunningham's legacy across continents and artistic disciplines. The diversity of activities and participating partners demonstrate the profound, enduring resonance of the choreographer's work and his approach to how the body moves in time and space.

Amy Bell and The Place Present THE FORECAST

Blending dance, text, animation and a live digital soundscape, Amy Bell eschews the outgrown leotard of her youth and challenges conventional ideas of gender and movement.

Recipients Of The Third Annual Tonic Awards Announced Recognising Women Across The Theatre Industry

Recipients of the third annual Tonic Awards were announced tonight at an awards ceremony held at The May Fair Hotel hosted by Tracy Ann Oberman. The awards celebrate the achievements of game-changing women, significant organisations, projects and productions that redefine the role of women in the performing arts, both on and off stage. The recipients of this year's awards are: Jude Kelly CBE, Alison Tickell, Open Clasp Theatre Company, Paula Garfield, Elliott & Harper Productions for Company, Shakespeare's Globe's production of Emilia, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Dance Umbrella.

Lineup Announced For Night Of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event

On April 16, 2019-the late, legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham's 100th birthday-the largest Cunningham Event ever staged will take place in London, New York City, and Los Angeles.

Glimmerglass Film Days Announces Films For Sixth Annual Festival November 8-12

Glimmerglass Film Days will explore the theme “Passages” in Cooperstown November 8-12.  A program of Otsego 2000, Film Days features 32 films, 26 filmmakers and special guests, panels, receptions with local food and drink, a companion art exhibit, a pop-up bookstore, a free film for kids, and guided hikes.   

Dance Umbrella Announces Artists Selected For FOUR BY FOUR

Dance Umbrella, London's flagship festival of international dance, is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary. To mark this milestone DU launched Four by Four - a programme inspired by the festival's four decades of artistic growth, a way of moving forwards by looking back.

Rambert School Presents an Evening of Dance at The Point

Graduate students of Rambert School's BA in Ballet & Contemporary Dance will be performing at The Point, Eastleigh, for the first time ever on the evening of Friday 29 June.

The Center For Ballet And The Arts At NYU Launches Artistic Partnership Initiative

The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU (CBA), the first-ever international institute for scholars and artists of ballet and its related arts and sciences, today announces the launch of its Artistic Partnership Initiative (API). API is a joint initiative between The Center and major professional dance companies around the world to advance the art of choreography. The API Fellowship will give artists selected by the companies the full resources of The Center and NYU for a three to four-week residency to develop new work. Nominees are artists with notable choreographic potential.

Dance Umbrella Announces Four By Four �" A 40th Anniversary Initiative Supporting The Choreographers Of The Future

Dance Umbrella, London's flagship festival of international dance, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this autumn. To mark this milestone DU has launched Four by Four - a programme inspired by the festival's four decades of artistic growth, a way of moving forwards by looking back.

Dance Umbrella Announces 2018 Programme

Dance Umbrella Announces 2018 Programme

Bristol Old Vic Announces 2018 Leverhulme Scholarship Recipients

Bristol Old Vic have today announced the latest recipients of The Leverhulme Arts Scholarships for 2018-19. Bristol Old Vic's Ferment initiative has once again partnered with The Leverhulme Trust to offer exceptional local artists; Emma Callander, Laila Diallo, Julia Head, Jo Hellier and Kid Carpet (aka Ed Patrick), a year-long opportunity to explore their practice.

Andrew Hughes Joins English Touring Theatre as a Producer

English Touring Theatre today announces that Andrew Hughes joins the company as a Producer, having previously been Assistant to the Artistic Director at the Young Vic Theatre. Andrew began his career as Producing Assistant with Punchdrunk, originally appointed through the inaugural year of the DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme, and went on to work with international touring company Blind Summit, independent Producer Vicky Graham and multi-disciplinary arts organisation Siobhan Davies Dance. As an independent Producer he most recently developed and produced Ross & Rachel by Olivier nominee James Fritz, which enjoyed a critically acclaimed, award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival, a New York transfer and two subsequent UK tours.