Performance

The artist and critic reflects on the challenges of roles heavy with symbolic meaning and the careful shaping of her Performa 2025 commission

The writer and theorist explores how acts of performance can confront, unsettle and rethink enduring structures

The East Williamsburg space hosts work that probes how contemporary artists navigate the challenges of a media-saturated world

With a recursive, transmedia lens, the artist imagines the world of ‘delivery dancers’, now brought to life in a live, motion-capture theatre performance

A four-hour immersive experience at Manchester’s Aviva Studios explores sex, death and ritual, collapsing personal and collective memory

As museums embrace performance by queer artists, performers and curators debate the trade-offs of recognition

In Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens, the artist collaborates with choreographer Holly Blakey, designer Ashish Gupta and musician Maxwell Sterling to present a dreamlike, melancholic dance

In an endless stream of disposable content, why the art you remember is more significant than the art you enjoy

The new play compellingly explores the irreconcilability of queerness and monarchy though falls flat while dealing with the dichotomy’s thornier implications

At The Round Chapel, London, the former world champion confronts the constraints placed on queer bodies in competitive sport

The radical troupe takes to the floor in Tokyo, where performers toy with the tension between intimacy and ecstatic rapture

At Gropius Bau, Berlin, the artist’s performance, loosely based on a 1939 Christopher Isherwood novel, interrogates the city's shifting political landscape

Featuring performers who vape, text and perch on luxury cars, the immersive work overtaking Park Avenue Armory, New York, demands we surrender to its shifting rhythms

Amidst yet another pendulum swing toward the right, this timely retrospective at Tate Modern should act as an inspiration

The avant-garde New York art-fashion collective as seen through the lens of Hong Kong-born, London-based photographer Joyce NG

Other highlights include a dance piece based on a cannibalistic tribal community and a novel coming-of-age story

A tribute to the dancer’s acclaimed return to choreography following years of ground-breaking artistic innovation

At Bold Tendencies in London, Jacob Samuel and Courtney Deyn’s latest ballet, ‘WHO HURT YOU?’, vividly portrays queer performers reaching their breaking point

What are the questions that you should ask yourself and your curator before sharing your artwork?

The artist fluctuates between meditation and masochistic intensity at London’s Whitechapel Gallery