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If you thought there was no money in the publicly subsidised arts sector then spare a thought for Jonathan Ross, the BBC One, Radio 2 presenter. Such is the publicly financed, national broadcasters desire to hang onto the ‘talents’ of Mr Ross they are prepared to shell out £12.5 Million to him, over the next […]
Filed under ‘bad timing shame about the publicity image’ Newcastle sees the launch of the Vamos Festival – or !Vamos! with the first ! inverted but we can’t do that with html – a celebration of ‘Spanish and Portuguese speaking global cultures.’ This, just one week after Portugal dumped good old England out of the […]
Ballet.Co, the ballet equivalent to Article19, sort of, has a rather curious request on its link pages which we feel merits a mention. The site compiles a daily list to various ballet related stories around the internet from newspapers, magazines and whomever else happens to write anything on contemporary dance’s slightly high strung, classical counterpart; […]
Filed firmly under the category of ‘you must be bloody joking’ a television company called, wait for it, ‘Just Fabulous TV’ (stop giggling at the back!!), is launching yet another television show to revel in the abject humiliation of the masses via the medium of dance. The show, for that is what it is, states […]
The World Cup is well underway in Germany and if you have never had the mis-fortune to experience this particular sporting event from the viewpoint of the UK media then you are missing a treat. Never has one country’s assembled journalists and presenters – and the public – so expertly managed to make a mockery […]
We have published many audition notices here on Article19 but not one of them has ever included the paragraph, or anything approaching it, like the the one quoted below taken from an email notification for an audition with Stan Won’t Dance; “The audition process is physically and mentally demanding and we are auditioning you on […]
Should you ever be unfortunate enough to be invited around to Mark Baldwin’s house for movie night then we strongly advise you to say ‘thanks, but no thanks!’ In a recent ‘interview’ (we use that word in the loosest possible terms) on LondonTrance.com the Artistic Director of Rambert told a willing readership about his favourites […]
Once again the ramshackle excuse for choreography on the cheap rolls into view with the re-emergence of the worlds most painfully dull marketing exercise. Like a creature lurking from the murky depths of a poisoned lagoon; it rears its ugly head on a suspecting public for another round of Pop Idol, contemporary dance style. We […]
The ruling Labour government here in the UK has responded to the ongoing apathy toward the arts in much the same way it responds to most things, they have released a ‘pamphlet’ (stop giggling at the back) Actually the pamphlet was released by Demos, a progressive think tank often in step with the government, and […]
Making money in the arts is a puzzle few are able to solve and often times it seems impossible. The trick to making money it would appear is to not be an artist or posses any kind of actual talent rather, just tell people how to fund raise and you can make a packet! (or […]