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Last modified on Fri 12 Feb 2021 06.31 EST How to describe the joy of watching people dancing in unison? Anthropologists talk about synchronous activities leading to a sense of “collective effervescence”; that lightness we feel when we’re all moving together in time – doing the macarena, maybe, or the YMCA – and trace it back to the need to bond members of a family or a tribe to one another, to reinforce the sense of unity that would have once been essential for survival. The first thing I knew about Figs in Wigs was that they liked to dance in unison. A quintet of identically dress...

The livestreams that won us round to online theatre in 2020 Exeunt’s writers look back on a year of livestreams, and the journey from despondency to hope. Normally, getting to grips with a new medium and a new artform is something you do by choice; “this winter I’ll get really into Twine”, you say to yourself, with no special urgency attached. But 2020 was the year when anyone interested in theatre and performance was ushered (or dragged, vigorously protesting that “it’s not the same!”) into the world of livestreaming. There was sometimes a sense of accompanying responsibility ...