James Wilton Dance are, relatively speaking, fairly new in the wide world of dance having existed for just four short years. ‘Last Man Standing’ is a work based on the book ‘The Last Hero’ by Terry Pratchett an author not often cited as an inspiration for dance makers. Lest you be unfamiliar with the work […]
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Giving Evidence
If this was an American TV show then we could write about how the “Feds” were coming for ACE replete with pictures of burly folk in blue wind-breakers hauling in suspicious looking employees for “questioning”. Sadly, for us at least, that is not what’s going on here. Instead we have the Select Committee of the […]
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We Will Never Know
by Neil Nisbet Like many individuals and a lot of established groups working in the arts today Article19 has to do as much as possible with the limited resources at our disposal. You can’t always do everything you want to do and you can’t always do everything as well as you want to do it. […]
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Yesterday, here in TheLab™, we published our 200th video feature on Article19, a comprehensive look at the Cloud Dance Festival in London and some of the dance makers involved. The oldest video feature on Article19 has been online for over 11 years and this particular website (in all of its various forms) has not been […]
Cloud Dance Festival started life as a simple meeting place for dancers and choreographers to show their work and try to get some attention for what they were doing. For 2013 it has grown to a whole new level with funding, lots of great new works from new dance makers and offering something positive for […]
John Ross is an experienced dancer and the recent winner of the New Adventures Choreography Award. ‘Wolfpack’ debuted in a simpler form some years ago but makes an appearance at the Cloud Dance Festival in a longer and more refined version as the dance maker seeks to expand his career. Dancers: Tim Clark, Jack Humphrey, […]
Italian duo Francesco Conquista and Simone Donati created a previous version of this work while training at Rambert Dance School. Extended for the festival the two dancers take their first steps (geddit? Ed!) into the wacky world of dance making. publish on Monday December 2nd, 2013
South African performer Mbulelo Ndabeni is currently a dancer with Rambert Dance Company but has been creating work for many years. Here he teams up with dancer and fellow South African Simone Muller-Lotz for a short duet, a prelude to a longer work in the making. publish on Monday December 2nd, 2013
In Red One Arouni explores the concept “the obvious centre of attention”. Who is it that attracts attention – the individual or the group? What is it like to observe from the sidelines? Arouni’s long dance career in Norway began at Carte Blanche and as a choreographer he has won acclaim for his unique and […]
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The Long Con
The mighty guardians of the arts in the United Kingdom – Arts Council England – have been, of late, making a big push into what they would probably describe as the digital realm. For ACE it’s all digital all the time. It’s like the internet has just been invented. Step forward the funding monolith’s new […]