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A few days back some members of TheLab™ went to a showcase dance performance. You know the sort of thing, several works, different dance makers, all a bit of a mixed bag between creative professionals and first timers. In the mix was a hip hop company (or break-dance posse, krew (sic) or whatever) that appeared […]
Most ridiculous quote of the year, so far, has to go to Karole Armitage a veteran choreographer who presented the premiere of her new piece, ‘Gran Partita’, with Rambert at Sadler’s Wells yesterday. When discussing the work in an “interview” with LondonDance.com she said, no kidding; “I hope to show a post-quantum theory, democratic, multi-dimensional […]
News came through last week that the Paul Hamlyn Foundation has given our old friends at the Royal Opera House a rather hefty donation of £10Million (GBP). The money will be placed into an endowment to provide year on year funds for what the Opera House calls “education and access activities”. A further portion of […]
In our second Royal Opera House story of the day we focus on the selective facts coming out of ROH about the recent donation from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation of £10Million (GBP). With regards to the donation itself there is nothing to report, it’s all ship-shape, above board and any other ridiculous cliche you can […]
Whilst most people in the arts are infuriated about the huge cuts being made to funding by ACE there are some that have expressed sympathy for the funding giant because the cuts are really being made by the Government so the ire of the masses should be focused on them. Indeed the Government, specifically the […]
If you’ve been following the news, which is a struggle sometimes I know, then you will of course have heard about the cuts to the Grant for the Arts programme made by ACE a couple of weeks ago. Well to say they announced it is a bit of a stretch. Just did it then cowered […]
We must apologise for the picture above. We had nothing to do with creating it but publish it we must for, after all, how can we mock the inept and the stupid if we don’t illustrate why we are mocking them and calling them stupid? That image was mailed to Article19 by Arts Council England […]
The non announcement by Arts Council England that Grants for the Arts will be cut by a staggering 35% (£29million) is further evidence, if any were needed, that ACE are poor stewards of this country’s artistic well being. It is ironic that just last week Jo Saucek, the online editor of Arts Debate, ACE’s latest […]
In the second part of our series looking at rich people doing stupid things we focus on a young lady known only as ‘Hayley’ who is under the slightly misguided impression the Merecedes Benz sports cars have underwater capabilities. It seems ‘Hayley’, being a few brain cells short of having an actual brain, decided to […]
It’s been an interesting week in dance. We’ve seen some excellent dancers performing some excellent work and when you really get down to it that’s what this art form is all about. But then the politicians and the bureaucrats stick their oar into the creative waters and reality comes crashing through the calm surface like […]