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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · 10d

Well this was a fascinating and somewhat hopeful listen, especially on the day that Badenoch again gets it wrong about cheap vs clean energies.

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 10d

The clean energy revolution – a reason to be hopeful – podcast

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of solar energy? With Bill McKibben

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · 11d

Looking back at the Lyon Biennale de Danse 2025

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‘Undertainment’, the new-look lambada and a grungy chorus line: bold dance at Lyon Biennale

The festival delivers a fantastic new work by William Forsythe, pure class from François Chaignaud and a Jan Martens revival that exasperates and enlivens

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · 17d

Here’s me on returning to classes at The Place London, only about 40 yrs after I first went to the evening school there. www.instagram.com/reel/DO_ZdLs...

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jul 4

Like many others, I had lots of mixed feelings about Jonathan Watkins’ A Single Man.
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A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic

Riven in two by grief – with musician John Grant playing the mind and former Royal Ballet principal Ed Watson the body – lead character George takes a finely danced journey back toward life’s flow in ...

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jun 28

Note from the editor: the series is Critical Distances, not Crossing Currents. 😉

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jun 27

And the last one will be by the 1 n only Kaliane Bradley… coming soon

Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jun 27

And the second is by Dom Czapski, on writing about a field in which you also work (love this cover image btw): www.mobiusindustries.com/news/critica...

| Mobius Industries

Dance performer, writer and improviser Dom Czapski discusses writing about and critiquing an industry you perform in

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jun 27

The first in the series is by me, on navigating cross currents between editorial and finance: www.mobiusindustries.com/news/critica...

| Mobius Industries

Dance writer and magazine editor Sanjoy Roy talks press relations

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jun 27

East is East, West is West? The question runs through Europe too. Here is the third in the Critical Distance series, copublished with @mobiustheatre.bsky.social , and Springback Magazine writers. 👇🏽

Mobius @mobiustheatre.bsky.social · Jun 27

Hot off the press 🔥📰 We've got another new blog post for you this week!

The third instalment of @sanjoyroy.net 's Critical Distance series is from dance writer Lena Megyeri.

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · May 19

On cultural performance and natural death.

Circumstances meant I had to write in a different and much more personal way than usual.

Dedicated to Hilary Ann Roy (1940-2025).

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Tree forest river sea - Springback Magazine

I’ve been advised to sit at the back, near an exit, with tissues, for Solène Weinachter’s dance-theatre show AFTER ALL. In the event, it turns out that I don’t need the exit, though I do need the back...

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Mar 7

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And here is a more biographical text about #MauriceRavel's two operas, seen in relation to his father (L'Heure espagnole) and his mother (L'Enfant et les sortilèges). www.theguardian.com/music/2012/a...

Getting to the heart of Ravel's opera double bill

L'Heure espagnole and l'Enfant et les Sortilèges are poles apart, but, writes Sanjoy Roy, what Ravel's operas both have at their heart is a lost parent

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Mar 7

Usually write on dance but am fan of #MauriceRavel. On 150th anniversary of his birth am reposting 2 texts I was superproud to have written. 1)on "small is beautiful" idea of exquisitely composed pieces that are bigger on the inside than on the outside. www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...

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Ravel: small is beautiful

On Friday 7 March Radio 3 are dedicating the entire day to music by the French composer. Sanjoy Roy explains why, for him, Ravel is a truly great artist, and, below, picks his five favourite works of ...

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 27

A video interview I did with Sadler’s Wells director Alistair Spalding about their buildings, part of the Places for Dance series at French CND Magazine. (In English! with French subtitles)
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États de lieux : Sadler’s Wells

États de lieux Sadler’s Wells

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 26

The background idea came from a wonderful BBC Four science/philosophy doc from 2011 called The Secret Life of Waves.

Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 25

Also in French! magazine.cnd.fr/fr/posts/159...

Vagues, flux, ricochets, l’héritage ondoyant de Trisha Brown

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 25

The "ripple-effect" of a life's work in dance: on the living legacy of Trisha Brown. Was wonderful to speak with Carolyn Lucas of Trisha Brown Dance Company about past, present and future of Brown's choreographic legacy. magazine.cnd.fr/en/posts/159...

Trisha Brown’s Choreographic Legacy Ripples On

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 15

“starchy”

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 8

First Rose choreography award (£40,000)goes to Christos Papadopoulos. First Bloom choreography award (£15,000) to Stav Boutros. @sadlerswells.bsky.social

Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Feb 5

Mysteries, the unknown, death, extinction. I was REALLY privileged to be able to talk with Simon McBurney & Crystal Pite about the Complicité/Nederlands Dans Theater Figures in Extinction trilogy.

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‘The unknowable is not nothing’: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in Extinction

Death looms large in the pair’s dance trilogy but, as Complicité’s artistic director says, confronting it is ‘integral to and essential for life’

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jan 30

Dimanche @mimelondon.bsky.social is funny, clever, disarming and devastating - holding a mirror to our dithering, carry-on-as-normal attitude while climactic climatic catastrophes overtake us all around.

Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Jan 2

A real highlight of my year (2024) was being haunted by three deep & dark puppet theatre shows by Yngvild Aspeli of Plexus Polaire. Catch their Moby Dick 22-25 Jan @mimelondon.bsky.social
Here we talk puppetry, life/death, hunting and of course haunting…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 2

‘The ungraspable phantom of life’: why puppetry is perfect for plumbing the deep mysteries of Moby-Dick

Yngvild Aspeli, whose staging of the Melville novel forms the centrepiece of this year’s MimeLondon festival, explains the eerie magic of her craft It is unnerving to be taken backstage after a show only to find yourself stepping over the inert,…

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Dec 21

It’s from when the production studio and promoters realised that the biggest draw would be the Capra name. I remember speaking to some non dancegoers who said they’d like to see something “like Matthew Bourne”. Heck, my own dad said the same. The name had the recognition and distinctiveness.

Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Dec 20

The original “name above the title” was film director Frank Capra, who got higher billing than the film itself. In dance, Matthew Bourne has name-above-title status and this is the work that did most to make that happen.
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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake review – a mythic modern classic flies again

Back for a 30th anniversary tour, the star choreographer’s signature wit and tenderness shine in this perennially haunting fantasy

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Dec 16

RIP Caroline Miller. Such a shock and a loss. A real (and very human) force of life in the dance world, warmly regarded by so many. Also very funny! Was (among other things) press officer at Southbank Centre and Sadler’s Wells, director of Dance UK, and most recently CEO of Birmingham Royal Ballet

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Sanjoy Roy @sanjoyroy.net · Dec 7

From 1-week trip to Finland, 24 yrs ago, I noticed this: 3 curtain calls for every single show, but never cheers or vocal sound of any kind. If you really wanted to show appreciation, you stamped your feet. So: hands, yes. Feet if you want. Voice, no. Three times. Then you’re done.