Ravel Reviews

R A V E L

An online publication for choreographic reviews.

Initiated by Amalia Kasakove

Access Ravel's website here.

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Ravel began from a wish to gather within the field of dance and choreography around writing with and alongside works—as ways of accompanying them and their makers. The project reflects on the fixity that traditions of (e)valuation in review writing can impose, and in turn proposes review writing as an artistic or choreographic format in itself. Ravel traces, tails, and inches closer to the processes of languaging that unfold alongside dance. It dives into thinking what the gesture of writing with dance might convey or make present, and how the act of writing can extend the thinking that the work is already doing.

The word ravel is a contronym, holding two opposing meanings at once: to knit together or to unknit, to entangle or to untangle—to unravel, involve, puzzle out, confuse, complicate, cluster, or knot. I see this as a starting point for Ravel, a platform that accompanies, follows, thinks through, and engages with a work and/or its process. The publication is an ode to how we are alongside and with choreographic work.

The choreographic reviews, or reviews on choreography, could take the form of letters, poems, recipes, fan fiction, short stories, scores, fantasy, fables, footnotes, epilogues, essays, toasts, maps, voice memos and beyond.

Ravel is initiated by Amalia Kasakove, a Sweden based artist working in the gutter between animation and choreography, with works that bend into the forms of performances, stop-motion animation, comics and curatorial proposals. Ravel has collaborated with sites such as MDT, Weld, Within Practice, Köttinspektionen and Stockholm University of the Arts.

The project is supported by MDT in 2025.