Carmel ThomasonWhen Motionhouse’s co-founder and artistic director, Kevin Finnan says Hidden is the company’s most ambitious production to date, we know to expect something spectacular. Motionhouse is known for bringing its unique fusion of dance and circus to...
Diane ParkesDance-circus company Motionhouse’s latest show Hidden has been wowing audiences in the UK and Europe – and this January it comes to The Lowry in Salford. The show, which brings together agility, acrobatics, dance, digital projection and a...
Lorraine Worsley-CarterManchester Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, began as a parish church in the 13th century, became a Collegiate Church in 1421 under Henry V, and was granted Cathedral status in 1847 with...
Murder at Midnight is Torben Betts’ follow-up to his highly successful Murder in the Dark. In the programme notes he tells how the idea emerged after producers at Original Theatre company asked him to write another that could form a series of...
The new tour of The Bodyguard explodes onto the stage at Manchester’s Palace Theatre, with a start that needs no phones-away announcement. The echo of a gunshot does that job – now everyone is paying attention. Seconds later flames rise from the...
Leslie James Kerwin“Victims are male homosexuals and drug users who use needles… any of them could have contracted the Aids virus, and any of them could pass it on.” A tinny radio blares across a dimly-lit haze of sweating bodies and tight leather trousers. Red...
Michael Keegan-Dolan’s dizzying gateway between modern dance and the ancient heartbeat of Ireland, MÁM, comes to Lowry, Salford By Diane Parkes When choreographer and dancer Michael Keegan-Dolan was creating his production MÁM, he turned to the...
When Sadiq Ali was diagnosed HIV+ during his circus training at NCCA, he witnessed the fear and ignorance that still surrounds the virus. He talks to Leslie Kerwin about his new work, ‘Tell Me’, created in consultation with HIV...
Alex PriceDavid Hockney is one of the most influential and renowned British artists of all time – ‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)’ is an immersive exhibit taking on the ambitious task of telling the story of his...
As a teenager I watched in awe as the Apollo Mission began, I remember thinking that the world as we knew it would never be the same again. As an animal lover I recall being delighted that there were astronauts and not animals on board and...