Do you remember Richard Alston Dance Company? For those not in the know the company existed for 25 years under the leadership of its titular director Richard Alston, a dance maker of note, according to some, and crafter of 50 dance works that toured the world, dazzling audiences with a great deal of Wafting About™. […]
On December 22nd 2014, we, here in TheLab™ published a piece detailing the “monstrous” cost of a newly announced arts building that was allocated funding to the tune of £78Million (with a total projected budget of £110Million) by the UK’s central government. The chaos, confusion, incompetence, and general lack of professionalism in that announcement from […]
It has been a long time since our last full video feature but we return triumphantly with three new dance makers looking to make their mark on the wide world of dance. John-William Watson, Chandenie Gobardhan and Jake Evans presented three works in progress for Northern Connections a launch platform, if you will allow us, […]
We return from our extended hiatus to find the wide world of dance in turmoil thanks to a pandemic and an established dance company reduced to ashes by a spectacular “self-own” worthy of only the very worst super villains. Rosie Kay Dance Company (RKDC), an Arts Council England “National Portfolio Organisation” (NPO) in receipt of […]
Now, when we say that “websites are hard” we don’t mean they go out looking for trouble at the local pub and engage in some bare knuckle brawling in a conveniently atmospheric alleyway in downtown wherever. What we, here in TheLab™, do mean is that having spent a considerable amount of time porting Article19 over […]
Our latest feature comes from the Coda Oslo International Dance Festival of 2019 with Norwegian dance smiths Nagelhus Schia Productions based in Bærum, just outside of Oslo. We know you probably don’t know where that is but it’s very pretty, trust us. The company tell us this much about ‘Orbo Novo’ Invited by artistic director […]
Another video from our pre-chaos days, ESC Company, a youth company based out of Bergen in Norway performed ‘Dream on, baby’ at the 2019 Coda Oslo International Dance Festival created by Alan Lucien Øyen and Daniel Proietto. The company say this much about the work; When do we become adults? When we let go of […]
A new feature filmed at Coda Oslo International Dance festival in October 2019, right before all the really crazy stuff started happening in the world. The company say this much about the work; “Having finished her highly acclaimed ‘triptych of the ecstatic body’ – comprising It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend, AH/HA and We’re […]
Article19 has been quiet for a long time and there are reasons for that but during that time we have still been making videos and shooting lots of dance and we will be publishing a lot of that material in the coming weeks. Our latest video is from Panta Rei Danseteater is a short feature […]
We have been covering Verve, the post graduate company from Northern School for Contemporary Dance, for 12 years now and they always manage to pull off some very impressive work, this year is no exception. Featuring choreography from Ben Wright, Maxine Doyle, Noa Zuk and Joan Cleville performed by 12 dancers. The company are on […]