Sound and vision from the past, present and future
Over the last 30 years Stephen Petronio has established himself as one of the most influential names in American dance. His iconoclastic works fuse eclectic elements of pop culture to often explosive effect. He talked to Civilian about some of his landmark productions
"I was horrified that the audience for last year’s Sadlers Wells revival of Nelken seemed to find its portrayal of fascist brutality rollickingly hilarious"
"More so than ever in 2024, it seems to me to take courage – the against-all-odds kind – to publish anything"
Sandy Powell is currently the subject of a 40-year retrospective of her work at SCAD, Dressing the Part: Costume Design for Film
Photographer Fergus Greer's remarkable portfolio of work with the iconoclastic designer
"Approaching Dublin with Ulysses in mind, if not in hand, is like wearing a set of bifocals that fractures the city into complementary parallels: so much has changed a century later, and so much seems unchanged"
"I’ll contentedly consume any quantity of bodily grotesquerie, haunted houses and monstrous otherings, and Supplication delivers on all these"
"For some, going to festivals is all about parties, meetings, lunches, drinking, not getting that taxi you wanted speaking the local language wrong and losing your apartment keys"
Neil D.A. Stewart on the best books of 2023, and the one that really should have won
"I sat at Pasolini’s regular table, and it could have been 1975."
The Cannes Film Festival has several juries. This year, Karen Krizanovich was on one of them
