Sanjoy Roy

London

Dance Writer, Guardian Stage at The Guardian

Dance writer @GuardianStage. Editor @springbackmag. Winner 2019 @OneDanceUK Writing Award. BOOK: work/world (2022): https://t.co/UTqPiTYctY…

Articles

Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in Extinction

2 months ago | msn.com | Sanjoy Roy

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Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in Extinction

2 months ago | msn.com | Sanjoy Roy

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

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Sanjoy Roy

To one side of this light-filled studio at Nederlands Dans Theater in the Hague are director Simon McBurney and choreographer Crystal Pite. McBurney is as still and reflective as a lake, though you sense the currents of contemplation moving behind his eyes. Next to him, Pite can barely stay on her chair and her arms keep rising up in urgency and encouragement.
‘The ungraspable phantom of life’: why puppetry is perfect for plumbing the deep mysteries of Moby-Dick

Jan 2, 2025 | theguardian.com | Sanjoy Roy

It is unnerving to be taken backstage after a show only to find yourself stepping over the inert, dismembered bodies of characters you’ve just seen in action. But this is Plexus Polaire, a French-Norwegian company that specialises in puppet theatre, and these players are just wood, foam and papier-mache.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake review - a mythic modern classic flies again

Dec 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sanjoy Roy

‘Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.” Think about how that sounds. Only a handful of film directors have been distinctive and famous enough to become “the name above the title”, and here is Bourne, surely the only choreographer-director whose name naturally precedes the title not only of most of his works, but of the world’s best-known ballet. Premiered in 1995, this Swan Lake is now back for a 30th anniversary tour. Bourne’s signature style is much in evidence.
By Their Fruits review – couples therapy meets multidimensional movement

Nov 19, 2024 | msn.com | Sanjoy Roy

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By Their Fruits review - couples therapy meets multidimensional movement

Nov 19, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sanjoy Roy

It doesn’t look like much: the stage is tiny, the set is a single room, spare and compact, and there are only two characters, Him and Her. Yet writer-director dkfash makes By Their Fruits feel deep and dense, and wide and open – as if reaching into the ground beneath and the sky above that central relationship.
Michael Keegan-Dolan’s house of dance: ‘I was so caught up with where I’m from - not any more’

Nov 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sanjoy Roy

‘I keep making pieces that I think maybe no one outside of Ireland will like,” says Michael Keegan-Dolan. “And so far, I’ve been wrong.”Indeed: his work comes from a particular place, but Keegan-Dolan’s company Teaċ Daṁsa plays successfully all over the world. The choreographer and director is speaking to me not far from where he was born, in north Dublin, where his new piece Nobodaddy has been playing to sold-out houses at the Dublin theatre festival.
Blood Show review – splattering violence becomes gross-out comedy

Nov 14, 2024 | msn.com | Sanjoy Roy

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Blood Show review - splattering violence becomes gross-out comedy

Nov 14, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sanjoy Roy

This much we know from the title: there will be blood. We’re given plastic ponchos to wear, if we want, in case of splatter (washable). The small performance area, lined with seats, houses a white armchair, a metal coffee urn and a forlornly potted tree. On the chair sprawls the bloody corpse of Ocean Chillingworth, hair, face, body, arms, hands, legs, feet all glistening deep red. On the carpet hovers a ghost – that is, someone draped in a white sheet with cut-out holes for eyes.