The struggle of the Luddites against mechanisation fuelling the Industrial Revolution is often used to teach us, change is inevitable and resistance to it is futile. Both statements have their truths. But is there another truth we still often...
I feel lucky to have been at the debut performance of Wolf Hours, Minute Taker, aka Manchester-based Ben McGarvey, superb soundtrack to a series of short-film clips, made by a variety of film makers. The show is designed to give a depiction of the...
Manchester’s claim to Nico comes towards the end of her short life, when during the 1980s she made the city her home. Like her earlier, almost nomadic existence, Nico’s time in the city was a chaotic one of sofa-surfing and heroin addiction...
Life is a Dream is a departure from the Rambert’s usual touring programme of three pieces, often including at the Lowry a premiered work. This season the contemporary dance company brings its first full-length narrative dance work in almost 40 years...