By Kathryn Boland Elizabeth Freeman will joke with her combat veteran clients that “nothing strikes fear in the heart of a warrior like the word ‘dance’.” Yet the work of New York’s Exit12 Dance Company — with which Freeman, a dance and movement therapist, serves as a clinical safeguarding lead — demonstrates just how transformative
By Jenn Edwards Six choreographers share some of their favourite books, ranging from novel to children’s story to essays. Through their vastly different recommendations, some common themes emerged, illustrating these artists’ shared interests in reconnecting with their inner child, living the values of their heroes, and reflecting on why we make art, and why it
By Rachel Silver Maddock A rare female leader in classical mythology, Dido has lived in the contemporary imagination through countless re-interpretations. In many of these, stemming from Virgil’s Aeneid, Dido is presented as a tragic figure who founds the great city of Carthage but later commits suicide when she is abandoned by her lover, Aeneas,