Philipa Rothfield

works in dance and philosophy.

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Culture August 09, 2025

Thinking in motion

Dance becomes a way of thinking and opening new possibility in Jo Lloyd’s Agitato and Rhiannon Newton’s Long Sentences.

Culture September 09, 2023

Sydney Dance Company’s Ascent

Sydney Dance Company’s thrilling triptych Ascent showcases three very different approaches to choreography.

Culture September 07, 2024

Alisdair Macindoe’s Plagiary

Alisdair Macindoe’s new dance work, Plagiary, investigates the artistic possibilities of a collaboration between artificial intelligence and the human body.

Culture April 08, 2023

NEWRETRO

Lucy Guerin Inc’s body of dance work is movingly elaborated in the retrospective exhibition/performance NEWRETRO.

Culture June 18, 2022

Manifesto

Stephanie Lake’s tour-de-force dance work is a full-blooded celebration of rhythm.

Culture May 14, 2022

Buried Tea Bowl – Okuni 2022

Yumi Umiumare’s Buried Tea Bowl – Okuni 2022 gives the traditional Japanese tea ceremony a 21st-century feminist spin.

Culture March 26, 2022

Flux Job

Lucy Guerin Inc’s Flux Job is an existential evocation of lockdown, played out on the field of dance.