A welcome return to Article19 for Norwegian dance company Panta Rei Danseteater and a new double bill featuring works from the company AD’s Pia Holden and Anne Ekenes along with Swedish dance maker Camilla Ekelöf. The works focus on the relations between the two countries, Norway and Sweden with Panta Rei’s own work ‘Ja, vi […]
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A welcome return to Article19 for Norwegian dance company Panta Rei Danseteater and a new double bill featuring works from the company AD’s Pia Holden and Anne Ekenes along with Swedish dance maker Camilla Ekelöf. The works focus on the relations between the two countries, Norway and Sweden with Panta Rei’s own work ‘Ja, vi […]
A welcome return to Article19 for Norwegian dance company Panta Rei Danseteater and a new double bill featuring works from the company AD’s Pia Holden and Anne Ekenes along with Swedish dance maker Camilla Ekelöf. The works focus on the relations between the two countries, Norway and Sweden with Panta Rei’s own work ‘Ja, vi […]
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Talk Is Not Cheap
Last week saw the return of the much maligned ‘State of the Arts’ conference rebranded as ‘No Boundaries’. The website and the logo might look bit cooler but it’s really just another conference. For 2014 the talking shop to end all talking shops took place in two separate cities in England; Bristol and York, connected […]
Welcome dear readers to a first time feature on Article19 with the Leeds based dance company Slanjayvah Danza and a work several years in the making ‘Minor Tears’. Jenni Wren, the choreographer behind ‘Minor Tears’ has recently started a blog on this very website chronicling the very subject matter of this piece, dancers and their […]
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Night is Day
For reasons past understanding the Guardian newspaper decided to give Arts Council England Chairman Peter Balzagette a nice long promo for a book he has written called “Is The BBC In Crisis?”. The quick answer to that particular question is YES! One of the reasons being that the best the BBC can come up with […]
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Aches and Pains
Last week the Royal Ballet announced that they were cancelling a performance of ‘Tetractys – The Art of Fugue’ (seriously? Ed!) crafted by Wayne McGregor because one of the dancers, Natalia Osipova, had received a concussion during a matinee show and another dancer, Thiago Soares, had become ill. Such was the shortage of time there […]
It has been almost 4 years to the day since we last featured a work by Warwick based Motionhouse Dance Theatre. Why so long you ask? Times are changing and dance companies are keeping their works alive for a lot longer than in previous years. ‘Scattered’, the company’s previous production, is still touring internationally. This […]
It has been almost 4 years to the day since we last featured a work by Warwick based Motionhouse Dance Theatre. Why so long you ask? Times are changing and dance companies are keeping their works alive for a lot longer than in previous years. ‘Scattered’, the company’s previous production, is still touring internationally. This […]
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Dark Money
Last Friday Arts Professional magazine released a brief story reporting that the, so-called, “strategic funding” budget used by Arts Council England had risen by 67% from the previous financial year. What’s unusual about this particular fund is the fact that neither arts organisations nor individuals can apply for this money; “‘Strategic funding’ grants being paid […]