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Emily Brown
Emily Brown
Emily is a freelance dancer based in Brighton. She performed with Mapdance Company 2012, and has recently created and performed solo work. As a dancer and musician, Emily enjoys innovative work that combines the two art forms. She is a keen dance writer, her blog can be found here.
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Bath

Lost Dog's Paradise Lost: a glorious mess of heaven and humanity

By Emily Brown, 15 October 2015
Ben Duke takes on the role of a lifetime, playing God in his stunning one-man reimagining of Milton's Paradise Lost. 
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Bath
16 Oct 2015
Ben Duke's excellent Paradise Lost
By Emily Brown
Swindon

Dance me to the end of love: James Cousins double bill

By Emily Brown, 02 October 2015
James Cousins Company presents a double bill depicting the break down of a fragile relationship, that shows inventive and detailed choreography, but leaves little space to breathe.
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Swindon
04 Oct 2015
Dance me to the end of love
By Emily Brown
Brighton

Claire Cunningham: Give Me a Reason To Live

By Emily Brown, 19 May 2015
Inspired by the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Claire Cunningham holds nothing back in baring her soul and her body, in this solo full of honesty and emotion.
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Brighton
20 May 2015
Claire Cunningham : Simply powerful
By Emily Brown
London

Rambert: Dark Arteries with Tredegar Town Band

By Emily Brown, 12 May 2015
Brass bands and balletic phrases formed part of Rambert's new mixed bill at Sadler's Wells, which also including the world premiere of Mark Baldwin's big and bold celebration of Welsh mining tradition.
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London
14 May 2015
Rambert: Dark Arteries with Tredegar Town Band
By Emily Brown
London

Louise Lecavalier's So Blue fulfils and confounds expectations

By Emily Brown, 02 July 2014
The dancer famous for athletics and strength embarks on a new and altogether enthralling direction in her first self-choreographed work.
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London
03 Jul 2014
Louise Lecavalier's So Blue fulfils and confounds expectations
By Emily Brown
London

Fabulous Beast: Rian

By Emily Brown, 21 June 2014
Rian celebrates the Irish tradition of dance and music with a gorgeous ceilidh, but something seems lost in the translation from village pub to theatre stage. A part of Sadlers Sampled at Sadler's Wells.
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London
23 Jun 2014
Fabulous Beast's Rian
By Emily Brown
Brighton

Opening Night by Les SlovaKs: A glorious celebration

By Emily Brown, 25 May 2014
Les SlovaKs dance collective close Brighton Festival, expertly delivering riotous improvisation with humour and humility, their fantastic performance deserves every moment of the standing ovation it received.
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Brighton
26 May 2014
Les SlovaKs' Opening Night
By Emily Brown
Brighton

Lost Dog and Lucy Kirkwood: Like Rabbits

By Emily Brown, 15 May 2014
A world première at Brighton Festival: Based on Virginia Woolf's Lappin and Lapinova, new dance theatre work Like Rabbits is a simple, comic and achingly sad tale of falling out of love.
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Brighton
17 May 2014
Lost Dog's Like Rabbits
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Brighton

Talk to the Demon by Wim Vandekeybus: darkly comic and dangerously honest

By Emily Brown, 13 May 2014
Brighton Festival hosts the UK premiere of Talk to the Demon, a work full of uncomfortable questions, powerful performances and breathtaking dancing. Choreographed on Ultima Vez by Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus.
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Brighton
14 May 2014
Ultima Vez's Talk to the Demon at Brighton Festival
By Emily Brown
Hove

Probe: Running on Empty at Brighton Festival

By Emily Brown, 06 May 2014
Gorgeous performances from Antonia Grove and Greig Cooke lead us through the big topics of love and loss, but rather than running at them head on, this new work skirts round the edges.
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Hove
08 May 2014
Probe: Running on Empty at Brighton Festival
By Emily Brown
London

Triptych by Bikes and Rabbits: a weird and wonderful ride

By Emily Brown, 10 April 2014
A solo circus piece exploring delusions and fantasies, that despite the occasional wobble left me convinced and seduced by performer Alice Allart’s wonderland.
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London
12 Apr 2014
Circusfest 2014: Bikes and Rabbits' Triptych
By Emily Brown

Growing old gracefully: Three Score Dance Company deliver high quality dance by the over sixties

By Emily Brown, 09 April 2014
It is rare to see a dancer performing very far past the age of about forty, so what happens when an older person still wants to be involved in dance performance? Three Score Dance creates high quality performance work for dancers aged over sixty. 
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09 Apr 2014
Growing Old Gracefully: Three Score Dance Company
By Emily Brown
Brighton

Not Roaring But Purring: Saffy Setohy's Unexpected Animal and Kindling

By Emily Brown, 21 March 2014
Saffy Setohy's duet, Unexpected Animal, and film, Kindling, choreographed for a mother and son offer a glimpse of a tender relationship, but could do with a few teenage kicks.
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Brighton
23 Mar 2014
Saffy Setohy's Unexpected Animal and Kindling
By Emily Brown
Brighton

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion: Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece

By Emily Brown, 11 March 2014
Choreographer and composer duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion perform a pair of beautifully bizarre duets involving cows, chaos and Cage. At The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
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Brighton
12 Mar 2014
Burrows and Fargion's Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece
By Emily Brown