The world’s most acerbic dance commentary
No, we’re not talking about the things that hold electric cables out of reach from the curious hands of small children. We’re talking about “piling on” when things are bad but you just need to keep kicking! So, a couple of weeks ago we berated DanceUK, the ACE funded dance advocacy group, a little for […]
Yesterday Arts Council England (ACE) announced that all of its regularly funded organisations (RFO) will be taking a cut in funding from them of 6.9% based on their budgets for the current financial year. If you check below you can see a detailed list of all dance related RFOs using numbers supplied by ACE. Our […]
DanceUK, the UK dance advocacy group, is relaunching its Dance Vote website or re-tasking it, whichever you prefer. It first appeared pre-election to get prospective candidates to voice their support for dance. On this occasion the aim is to get elected muppets MPs to, once again, voice their support for dance which faces possible cuts […]
Now, we wanted to be a bit more blunt with the headline by way of an expletive orientated intensifier to make it “Jeremy Hunt is a F****** Idiot”. Alas, editorial guidelines don’t allow it so onward and upward. The Stage is reporting, sort of, the latest rant from the permanently smug Minister for Culture that […]
Now the title of this campaign might be a little on the melodramatic side but the intention is a least honourable. Organised by the Turning Point Network in London the idea is to get some high profile artists (whatever that means) to create work advocating the arts to politicians and joe public before they get […]
Update: 11/09/10 – The BBC has repeated the inaccurate assertions made in another news story regarding funding cuts [here]. Did anything good ever come out of a survey? Politics, shopping, film, television, etc are all surveyed to oblivion but can a series of questions directed at a random number of people ever truly reflect a […]
64 people have been taken to hospital this past Monday suffering from a variety of maladies ranging from catatonia to severe stroke following a mass reading of the latest press release from The Place concerning The Place Prize®™. Those in attendance who escaped uninjured told disturbing tales of self harm, wailing, gnashing of teeth and […]
It occurs to us, here in TheLab™, that despite the information overload in todays world of super cell phones, laptops, iJesus devices and so much other nonsense that dance companies don’t talk about each other very much. Glancing through Twitter feeds, Facebook updates, websites, mail shots, emails and so on we notice a lot of […]
For a slight change of pace we bring you some images from this past April of Candoco Dance Company’s premiere of their new touring production ‘Renditions’. Renditions, featuring work from Emanual Gat, Wendy Houstoun and Sarah Michelson will be back on the road in September, check their website for complete details. Full captions and credits […]
Social Media, depending on your point of view, is either marketing heaven, free and easy to use, or a hellish wasteland of crap that is free and easy to annoy the hell out of people with. If companies play the game properly you can get some useful tidbits of information, perhaps even engage in a […]