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As an homage to our good friends at Dance UK (say what? Ed!) we have recreated one of their help sheets that reminds dancers to drink lots of water or else. However, we have decanted that information into a far more succinct approximation of what will happen if you don’t drink lots of water. Welcome […]
You know how Sadler’s Wells, that theatre in London, has the ridiculous tagline that proclaims the theatre “is dance”? Well, seeing as how it’s Monday and, as everybody knows, Monday is poster day here in TheLab™ we set to work utilising a full arsenal of malevolence, mischief, satire, and, of course our general evilness to […]
As always with Article19 the controversy seems to come from the things that you would least expect it come from. Step forward our four sentences on the New Adventures Choreography Award (NACA) pointing out that the main winner (and a runner up, although not mentioned in the piece) are both connected to New Adventures. 29 […]
Last week Dance UK, the dance advocacy organisation that specialises in not saying much of anything at all, got its knickers thoroughly in a knot after a government minister was quoted saying vaguely negative things about dance A-levels. David Willets, Minister for Universities and Science, suggested that certain A-levels should be considered less important when […]
‘One Man Walking’ is the latest foray into dance film making by the production company MJW comprised of producer Anne Beresford and director Helen Williams. This particular effort also has Jonzi D. (Breakin’ Convention) on-board as a writer. Here in TheLab™, we’ve had our issues with MJW before, none of them in the least bit […]
The furore that has erupted over the cancelling of a large scale community opera created by writer Lee Hall (of Billy Elliot fame apparently) by Opera North has led to most of the scrutiny being placed upon Opera North itself. This is despite the main villains of the piece being a primary school and an […]
We might as well get straight to the point here. The BBC show ‘The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance’ (MITACD) screened last night on BBC4 was contemptible, risible pish. MITACD was, apparently, a “personal journey” conducted (fnar fnar) by musician Charles Hazelwood through the wide and wacky world of contemporary dance. This is a […]
Starting on June 30th the BBC will be running a series of programs ostensibly about “contemporary dance”. The first of the programs is indeed called “Dance! The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance” (it’s a subtle joke that will be explained later). For an opening gambit the BBC told us this about the coming season […]
Last week we ran a story concerning the numbers issued by Big Dance for participation in their events in London over a nine day period. We said the numbers were made up, ACE issued a statement to try and clarify things, then just dug themselves and Big Dance into a slightly deeper hole. First of […]
Following the announcement by the Royal Opera House that Kevin “I’m so obscure even I don’t know who I am” O’Hare has been appointed to helm the Royal Ballet we, here in TheLab™, slipped an ROH insider some used £10 notes in a brown paper bag to get a hold of his “Aims and Objectives” […]