National Dance Company Wales, the national dance company in Wales (just in case that wasn’t clear, Ed!) are back on the road with a new series of works both old and new. The repertoire will change from venue to venue but when we, here in TheLab™, caught up with them the company were performing ‘Mythology’ […]
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The Gagging Clause!
Arts Council England has denied that a so called “gagging” clause will be included in the new contracts being prepared for the National Portfolio Organisations for the funding period running from 2015 until 2018. Arts Professional magazine published a story on September 19th that suggested the clause in the contract would restrict the ability of […]
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Anatomy of a Failed Fundraiser
by Neil Nisbet 30 Days ago Article19 started something that Article19 has never done before, we tried to raise funding from the people who visit this website every month. 30 days later and that fundraiser has ended its run in failure. You pay your money and you take your chances, that’s how it goes. The […]
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The Student Body
September is the time for dance students to return to their training or, in the case of the first years, begin a three year journey on the road that leads deep inside the wacky world of professional dance. Once those students graduate into that world it can be frustrating, it can be debilitating, it can […]
Twenty one year old Hannah Rotchell is a ready and eager to admit that her mother probably sent her to her first dance lessons at the age of three in Tunbridge, Kent for a very straight forward reason. To get the hyperactive youngster out of the house and into a place where she could expend […]
When discussing 32 year old professional dancer Chris Pavia with his colleagues and friends at Stopgap Dance Company they tell you about a jovial, committed, diligent dancer, choreographer and teacher who’s abilities in all there fields have progressed steadily over the last 18 years he has spent with the company. Chris is also imbued with […]
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Staged Stupidity
In the arts some folk may be a little too interested in what others think of them. All you need to do is look at the incessant praise re-tweeting, pull quotes from reviews and caring too much about being reviewed in the first place. The Stage is reporting (stop laughing at the back) on a […]
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Reductio ad Absurdum
In 2012 protesters interrupted numerous performances by Israeli dance company Batsheva in the UK for the simple reason that they are publicly funded by their own country’s arts ministry. The “pro-Palestinian” protestors have come up with the fantastically convoluted reasoning that anything from Israel is little more than Israeli government propaganda and should be shouted […]
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Shredding Money
In our ongoing tussle with Arts Council England to obtain information concerning the much maligned “Space” project the funding monolith made the following comment in response to questions about spending over £8Million on a website vs cutting the companies in the NPO portfolio. “With regards to the national portfolio; turnover in the portfolio is healthy.” […]
And now for something a little bit different. Compagnie T-d’U is not a dance company but a theatre company comprised of four actors and their work ‘All the things you said you never said before you thought you could ever say’ (that’s the full title) is more physical theatre than a dance show. Adding to […]