Editorial opinion from Article19 and other writers, those who choose to speak their truth, or something.
By Neil Nisbet On the day that the results were announced for the outcome of the UK’s referendum on being a part of the EU I encountered an individual who told me they didn’t vote because they didn’t want the responsibility for the decision on their shoulders, or words to that effect. If that doesn’t […]
By Neil Nisbet A few weeks ago I interviewed Hannah Rotchell (pictured above) a dancer with JV2, the post graduate company set up by Jasmin Vardimon Company to provide additional training and work experience for dancers. Ms Rotchell, a graduate of LCDS in London, is perhaps everything you would want in a professional dancer; Prodigiously […]
For the last few years working in the arts has been a more unpredictable and stressful endeavour than usual. Cuts to funding at the national and local level are causing massive headaches and losses to local arts provision, touring and a whole lot more. It was surprising then when George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Choreographer Ben Wright was invited to be part of a government initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation to launch a special arts program to develop and support contemporary culture in smaller Russian cities. In light of recent violent suppression of the rights of the LGBT community and the passing of an […]
by Neil Nisbet Over the last couple of years the talk in the wide world of culture has almost incessantly been about funding cuts. Alongside that has been some fairly muted counterpoint from a few, some would say, privileged members of the arts community. Every time we read about the case for arts funding it’s […]
On January 17th Equity, the performing arts union, will be holding an open meeting for actors and dancers so they can discuss the issues that are important to them. Writer and Editor Francis Richard sent a letter to that organisation, we have copied it below, in full, with the author’s permission, outlining issues that need […]
by Neil Nisbet More than five years ago we published a piece entitled “10 Things That Need To Happen in 2008”. As the dance profession, en masse, moves into another new year what better time to take a look back and see if any of the things we discussed actually happened. “ACE needs to support […]