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 […]
Professional dancers taking part in the audition process over the last few years will be very aware of the increasing demands from companies and choreographers to provide video material of their abilities in advance of being selected for attendance. Some notices go so far as to request solo material or material that clearly shows the […]
The Guardian newspaper published a by the numbers puff-piece last week based on a press release from the BBC proclaiming that the publicly funded broadcaster was going to champion the arts or, you know, whatever. Said press release, loosely translated by John Plunkett (totally made up name or what? Ed!), proclaimed that; “Nearly £3m extra […]
Out in the wild for their second tour is the post graduate company with a difference created by Jasmin Vardimon, JV2. This time out the company is showing works by Ms Vardimon ‘Tomorrow’, Paul Blackman and Christine Gouzelis ‘Vohlfs’ and ‘Purgatory: Nothing 2 Say’ by David Lloyd. JV2 was created to broaden the base skills […]
Out in the wild for their second tour is the post graduate company with a difference created by Jasmin Vardimon, JV2. This time out the company is showing works by Ms Vardimon ‘Tomorrow’, Paul Blackman and Christine Gouzelis ‘Vohlfs’ and ‘Purgatory: Nothing 2 Say’ by David Lloyd. JV2 was created to broaden the base skills […]
Welcome dear readers for what is our 7th year of covering the exploits of the post-graduate company from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, that company being Verve. This time out the group of 12 dancers are tackling work by Lea Anderson ‘Re-Wind’, Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard ‘Mute’, Ben Duke ‘You, Me, The Door and […]
Welcome dear readers for what is our 7th year of covering the exploits of the post-graduate company from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, that company being Verve. This time out the group of 12 dancers are tackling work by Lea Anderson ‘Re-Wind’, Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard ‘Mute’, Ben Duke ‘You, Me, The Door and […]
Welcome dear readers for what is our 7th year of covering the exploits of the post-graduate company from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, that company being Verve. This time out the group of 12 dancers are tackling work by Lea Anderson ‘Re-Wind’, Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard ‘Mute’, Ben Duke ‘You, Me, The Door and […]
The budget delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is often a snooze for arts folk unless they are expecting arts cuts, the norm for the last few years. However, this time out there was, allegedly, some good news for the creatives when George Osbourne announced some tax breaks for both touring and non-touring theatrical […]
The Probe Project are a company that have been moving around the touring scene for several years now. Helmed by Antonia Grove the company makes work that mixes several mediums to come up with a whole that is strikingly different from a lot of contemporary dance work out there. ‘Running on Empty’ is no different. […]