For most of my life, belonging was something I tried to earn. It lived in the approval of mentors, the trust of colleagues, the rhythm of a show running well. I thought belonging meant being needed, being the calm one in the storm, the one who made everyone else’s chaos feel contained. But lately, that

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

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,

JW3 celebrates its 13th anniversary in 2026, marking its Bar Mitzvah year as the building comes  of age. This milestone season is a joyous and ambitious celebration of growth, identity and  creativity, reflecting both the centre’s past achievements and its bold vision for the future. As  the only Jewish community centre of its kind in

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,