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Fifth Wall and Dot Dot Dot use the screen as an interactive performance space. Fifth Wall is a quiet, looping piece featuring solo dancer Jonah Bokaer within layers of black frames. Interaction comes through turning, tapping or pinching the screen, allowing the viewer to manipulate the individual frames to achieve different effects.

Dot Dot Dot opens with an aerial view of nine black dots – that are later revealed to be the tops of nine solid columns – and dancer-choreographer Tom Gold. The app is structured like a four-storey building with several rooms on each floor that are navigated through tapping dots and swiping left, right, up and down.

Czech digital agency Comtech worked with the current Tanec Praha (6-20 June 2019) to design the dance festival’s advertising campaign; the slogan for the 31st annual event is ‘Curiosity is the gateway to experience’.

Pentagram partner Marina Willer has rebranded Belgian ballet and opera house Opera Ballet Vlaanderen with an energetic identity that both embodies motion and feels like peering through textured glass into the performance space.

Willer’s identity is paired with photography that departs from perfectly composed imagery in favour of abstraction, which reflects the house’s contemporary programming.

Flamenco magazine El Canon, designed by Emilio Gil’s Madrid studio Tau Diseño, released its fifth issue in January of this year. The occasional publication (founded in 2007) focuses on new flamenco masters. Contributors include musicians, singers, dancers, photographers, illustrators and flamencologists.

El Canon: revista del arte flamenco no. 5 is split into two sections, one dedicated to Spanish singer Rocío Márquez and the other, ‘Flamenco visto y leído’ (Flamenco seen and read), features the work of photographer Carlos Rodríguez as well as an article about illustrated children’s book El Ruiseñor Sin Ojos (The Nightingale Without Eyes), among others.

Estonian illustrator Olga Skomorokhova has illustrated the poster campaign for Texas Ballet Theater’s 2019-20 season giving the company’s programme – which includes Sleeping Beauty, Firebird and A Midsummer Night’s Dream – an decadent and otherworldly aesthetic.

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