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Dance City, one of the UK’s National Dance Agencies, is running a new project to try and get ‘young people’ (were not allowed to call them kids anymore) aged between 11-18 years old involved in the running of their facility for a year. We will bypass the obvious jokes about Dance City being run by […]
Remember back in the day when Flash Mobs were a thing? People would gather in a given place, do something weird and then bugger off before anybody could figure out what was happening? Apparently they didn’t vanish off the face of the Earth, far from it. They have simply evolved into ever more inventive/lame (delete […]
For once the Guardian is doing an actual reporting job with their coverage of dance and the political scene with a piece by John O’Mahony. Leading off with a look at William Forsythe’s ‘Three Atmospheric Studies’, a piece about the war in Iraq, Mr O’Mahoney takes a look at whether or not dance should be […]
The Place Prize moves ever closer to its conclusion in London this week as the five finalist slug it out for the £25,000 first prize in the worlds only contemporary dance competition where the prize is cash. The audience for the opening shows have spoken and they have chosen Jonathan Lunn, Freddie Opoku Addaie, Nina […]
It’s Autumn so it must be time for the Guardian’s annual puff piece on dance to make all of their readers think that the paper is smart and reports on things that smart people like, such as the arts. This years march into idiotic reporting, written by Emma John, explores that most troubling of dilemmas, […]
It took two years and many trips on planes for TheLab™ to figure out how to transport one multi-part video camera, digital SLR, several lenses, a laptop computer and other sensitive equipment without having to rely on the troglodytes that always get hired to load planes with luggage. It is a thing of beauty to […]
Amid the usual hysterics and hyperbole from the media and those who should know better regarding yesterdays complete over reaction security problems at UK airports it’s nice to read a well thought out editorial opinion from the press. The New York Times offers some solid perspective on the situation. [ NY Times Editorial ]
We reported on OK GO’s last music video, made in their back garden with no money, and the boys from the worst dressed band in the world have made another stunning piece of choreography with little more than a cheap DV camera, a few treadmills and some ok-ish music. They really do need to sort […]
Impulstanz in their fervour of post modernist celebration are running a little tidbit from the Jonathan Burrows piece ‘Both Sitting Duet’ where the two protagonists – Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion – are literally just sitting down and flapping their arms about! Ok so they do a little bit more than just flap their arms […]
You may or may not have noticed that the past week from 15th July to the 23rd of July was Big Dance Week or whatever Arts Council England were calling this colossal PR exercise that was almost certainly a waste of time “week-long, England-wide celebration of dance. Everyone is invited to take part in a […]