Innovation often involves taking something apart and putting it back together in a different form. The young German artist Fenja Barteldres has taken this quite literally. With her Cyr wheel, which she disassembles on stage and “plays” with in a variety of ways, she has become one of the current rising stars of the contemporary

I recently came across something in my morning reading that I really found powerful and I wanted to share with you. The book is called Creativity Inc., and it’s about overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration. It’s by Ed Catmull, who’s co-founder of Pixar Animation. It’s, um, it’s a

In this episode of the StageLync Podcast, I had the absolute privilege of sitting down with Abramz Tekya. To the world, he’s a veteran hip-hop artist and b-boy, but to his community in Uganda, he is a lifeline. Abramz’s story is one of the most powerful I’ve heard—from losing both parents to HIV/AIDS at a

In this preview of next week’s StageLync Podcast, Anna Robb sits down with Dr. Dorita Hannah—design scholar, practitioner, and consultant working at the intersection of architecture, performance, and space. Their conversation moves from a simple but powerful starting point (“What is the space?”) into a bigger question: how do we design experiences where environments, audiences,

Following their tour in 2025, Yorkshire-based dance-theatre company Northern Rascals return  for their final tour of Sunny Side, tackling the UK’s male mental health crisis head on. At the  heart of the company’s ethos is understanding and sharing the everyday realities of struggling  with mental health with audiences through raw storytelling that merges contemporary dance, 

Summer is nearly here, and Pleasance Theatre Trust is delighted to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe following a record-breaking year of award wins. Now entering its 42nd year at the heart of the world’s largest arts festival, the Pleasance will once again present a standout programme of comedy, theatre and dance across its iconic