Manchester international festival 2021
The Patience of Trees review – nature cries out from a concert cocoon
Notes on Grief; Cloud Studies; The Long Waited, Weighted, Gathering – review
Arlo Parks review – impassioned live show creates heady sense of joy
Notes on Grief review – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie essay sketched on stage
‘Life is never what you expect!’ Deborah Warner on theatre, nature and new parenthood
Lockdown culture
The Global Playground review – silliness at full throttle as cameras roll on dance movesAll of This Unreal Time review – Cillian Murphy confesses all in pounding sound and blinding light
Hundreds of dancers perform living flipbook to open Manchester international festival
Poet Slash Artist review – if this show is art’s future, it looks good to me
Lucinda Childs: ‘In the US, my work wasn’t something people could deal with’
From being taught by Merce Cunningham to collaborating with Philip Glass, the choreographer who helped shape the New York dance scene – now ‘81 on paper’ – looks back
Manchester international festival 2021: the best community art, from Cephas Williams to Kemang Wa Lehulere
A portrait project on an epic scale, and a poetic, funny and deeply personal celebration of intimacy and connection
Manchester international festival 2021: the best poetry, from Arcadia to Poet Slash Artist
Lemn Sissay and Hans Ulrich Obrist combine art and poetry to sublime effect, and an installation explores our place within nature
Manchester international festival 2021: the best art, from dance delights to a sideways Big Ben
Manchester international festival 2021: the best music, from Damon Albarn to Arlo Parks
‘A pained love letter to boyhood’: Cillian Murphy and Max Porter on their new film
‘I hope people remember it all their lives’: Why Marta Minujín wants to reinvent Big Ben
She partied with Warhol, rollerskated with Rauschenberg and fed Argentinians a giant panettone phallus. Now Marta Minujín is set to dismantle a replica of Britain’s big bonger – in Manchester
Manchester international festival 2021 to feature work reflecting on pandemic
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay on grief adapted for theatre among lineup for mostly outdoor event
