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
"Does her close observation of the everyday often tip into the purely mundane?"
"If I were to create a hotel it would be based on the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz"
"Beats falling like gigantic footsteps, noise seems to have overflowed from some subterranean otherwhere, surging up like black water" - Neil Stewart reviews The Haxan Cloak at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Todd Lynn on the new Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Neil Stewart enjoys Meg Wolitzer’s novel of youthful comings of age, and the trials and consolations of maturity, among a group of creative types
"It all felt as flimsy, pretty and ephemeral as the low-key, romantic score by Michael Nyman that settled over the top of it like a spritz of eau de toilette"
"The quieter sadness of some stories made me wonder whether the collection should perhaps have been named after its first story: 'debarking', it turns out, is the process by which a dog’s voice is softened to make it less startling to the human ear"
Corinna Tomrley on the two voices of Canada's Joni Mitchell
"The baby steps that we take towards intimacy, the perennial insecurities, the pitfalls of love... people not quite managing to say what they mean, or mean what they say"
Iconoclastic, ecletic and often explosive - Stephen Petronio talks us through 30 years of his company's dance
