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Lia Rodrigues’s Rose Prize-nominated dance work certainly brought the shock factor. But beyond that, what was the purpose of this hour-long gallivant through fabric?

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Wang Yeu-Kwn stuns with a captivating half-hour duet danced on a piece of rice paper. Nominated for the inaugural Bloom Prize for choreography.

The winners of the inaugural Rose Prize have been announced! Now its first year is out the way, our author muses on the prizes’ purpose and place in the awards circuit.

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Kyle Abraham’s Rose Prize-nominated contemporary dance piece on Black American life and love had a brilliant sit-com concept that lacked enough variety to get me through to the season finale.

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Stav Struz Boutrous’s half an hour work meditates mourns the tragedy of war through the medium of the Georgian military dance, Khorumi. Nominated for the inaugural Bloom Prize for choreography.