Sunday Feature: A Movement Beyond Dance

Dance critic Judith Mackrell explores how dance today is exploding with possibilities and merging with other art forms. And is it - despite the genre's diversity - still about the poweR and Beauty of the moving human body? Mackrell believes dance is now going through one of the most exciting periods of its history - exploding with possibilities and merging with many other art forms. She examines why so many are turning to new forms of dance and considers the dangers of the range and speed of change. She travels to the Venice Contemporary Dance Festival to see the most experimental and diverse work being created today and meets choreographers, audiences and dance programmers such as Alistair Spalding, artistic director at the Sadler's Wells theatre