Yesterdays announcements by Arts Council England of their decisions concerning National Portfolio Organisations came as some relief to the wide world of dance. Most established companies and organisations survived along with a few new companies being added to the mix. Of the 3 NPOs that failed to get renewed we know that at least two […]
It’s one thing fighting off the right wing absolutists when they spew their ridiculous rhetoric regarding arts funding it’s another thing altogether when you are crossing swords with people who are supposed to understand the arts. Step forward Harriet Harman, Shadow Culture Secretary, and Simon Mellor from Arts Council England. In a speech to some […]
For the most recent Coda Dance Festival in Oslo Ballet de Lorraine from Nancy in France brought a new work from Norwegian dance maker Ingun Bjórnsgaard. The work was part of a curated season of pieces made by female choreographers from company director Petter Jacobsson. For that season of work Mr Jacobsson wanted to question […]
For the most recent Coda Dance Festival in Oslo Ballet de Lorraine from Nancy in France brought a new work from Norwegian dance maker Ingun Bjórnsgaard. The work was part of a curated season of pieces made by female choreographers from company director Petter Jacobsson. For that season of work Mr Jacobsson wanted to question […]
by Chantal Guevara Theatres attract such diverse audiences, and yet there is one thing which all audience members have in common: a universal loathing for those people who cannot put their phone away long enough to watch a full act of a show. It’s not as though theatres leave any room for ambiguity, normally: their […]
Here in TheLab™ we imagine that it all started with a conference somewhere, probably from the Arts Marketing Association. A well dressed hipster takes to that stage and proclaims, using forced confidence while holding an iGadget™, that if a Twitter follower sends you a message containing feint praise then immediately re-tweet it to your own […]
For fourteen years now the post graduate company EDge from London Contemporary Dance School have been roaming these lands plying their trade and teaching graduates the finer points of being professional dancers. Now under the watchful eye of AD Jeanne Yasko the company is presenting works by Trisha Brown ‘Canto/Pianto’, Yael Flexer ‘The Living Room’, […]
For fourteen years now the post graduate company EDge from London Contemporary Dance School have been roaming these lands plying their trade and teaching graduates the finer points of being professional dancers. Now under the watchful eye of AD Jeanne Yasko the company is presenting works by Trisha Brown ‘Canto/Pianto’, Yael Flexer ‘The Living Room’, […]
It was suitably ironic that following our feature piece last week concerning the problems with professional dancers trying to find properly paid, full-time jobs an audition landed in our inbox from The Royal Opera House in London. This particular audition, seeking 6 female dancers for the staging of an opera called ‘Anna Nicole’, was offering […]
We last featured Danish Dance Theatre in 2011 with their UK tour of ‘CaDance’ featuring three works from company director Tim Rushton. This time out the company was on a more limited UK tour with some specially revised works for half of the company’s dancers. ‘End of Loneliness’ (featured here) and ‘Riverside’ were also created […]