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Over the last few weeks the remaining dance elements of the Arts Council England/BBC online arts channel, The Space, have finally come online. ‘Come Dance With Me’ (stop laughing at the back) created by Dance East and ‘Spill’ created by DanceXchange, both National Dance Agencies, are now online for your viewing pleasure. The first video […]
After what seemed like 145 years of preparation and build up the Olympics kicked off this past Friday with the opening ceremony at the Olympic Park in East London. Debates will be had, probably for the next 145 years, about the relative artistic and creative merits of the show itself. Was it a “spectacular” illustration […]
During the summer months when dance, for the most part, is very quiet and not a whole lot is happening, we, here in TheLab™, like to exercise our imagination and recently we did some exercise about dance buildings. You all use them at some point or another during your working day whether it be for […]
For the most part it would appear that a politician’s job is to come up with crazy ideas and then let somebody else deal with the resulting mess. Whether it’s storing petrol in jerry cans or deciding that a colossally expensive “digital arts channel” should become a permanent fixture of the culture scene. During a […]
The new cross-produced “Space” project from Arts Council England and the BBC releases a new advertising poster detailing all the dance that’s on their new service. Click on the image for a full size version and welcome, to poster Wednesdays. [ Original Photo by Max Wolf ]
Akram Khan thinks that the arts have been “fed” too much money according to an interview he did with the Daily Telegraph back in February, an article lost in the murky depths of random arts coverage in the newspapers. The full quote is; “Khan says he has noticed, in his conversations with arts commissioners around […]
On March 29 Arts Council England (ACE) announced provisional approval for some grants for “capital development” to be awarded to organisations all over England to improve or modify their apparently ramshackle facilities. At the very top of the list,as you would expect, were the big organisations. The National Theatre with £17.5Million, The Southbank Centre at […]
At the moment Arts Council England, along with many others with a vested interest, are talking up all things “digital” in the search for mass popularity of the arts and culture. One programme, run by ACE in conjuction with the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and the Arts and Humanities Research […]
Throughout the day yesterday (Tuesday 20th March) Article19, as is our want, was commenting on the latest Digital Capacity building seminar hosted by The Big Bad (Arts Council England). As we’re not invited to such things (previous press access requests have been turned down) all we can do is comment from afar using Twitter alongside […]
A wise man once said you never really know an organisation until you know their numbers. We can’t remember who that was but we promise you, that is not something we just made up because we couldn’t think of an intro for this piece! With that in mind we took a stroll through the accounts […]