CRITIC’S PICKS 2025
Recently landed: Critic’s Picks 2025
Gracia’s written response to Sandra Parker’s Consequence, as part of Critic’s Picks 2025, especially for Fjord Review.
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Throughout the year, our critics attend hundreds of dance performances, whether onsite, outdoors, or on the proscenium stage, around the world. To cap the year that was, we asked each writer to highlight their most outstanding performance of 2025. What follows are our critics' highlights of the year, in no particular order.
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Sandra Parker’s Consequence
In a world where the certainty of a future is not a given, for my ‘best’ performance of 2025, I am rolling with a work-in-progress showing of Sandra Parker’s Consequence. Shown in still-forming, unfixed state, the dancers — Jazmyn Carter, Benjamin Hurley, Rachel Mackie, and Oliver Savariego — held sculptural poses. Consequence sprang from the root of the upward movement, and in the stillness, there was living, breathing humanness. In the quartet, though all moved as one, there was individuality, from a shoulder rolled further forward or a head tilted upward. Connectivity allows a line to be drawn to Ian McEwan’s novel, What We Can Know, as Parker discussed with Jo Lloyd in the Q&A session that followed. There in the room, the same sense of looking back, from the submerged vantage of 2199, in the full face of the climate emergency, to 2014 and the choices knowingly made by the few at the top for the many below. A world of system responsiveness, of consequences.
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18th of December, 2025
