Touring for dance companies over the last few years has an increasingly difficult practice thanks to non sensical funding cuts and certain venues being less than cooperative when it comes to programming touring companies. The opportunity to watch dance live north of Manchester would be almost non-existent but for a small venue located inside one […]
Category: Video
Dance Video Features
Many people on the outside of the arts think it’s a world of cushy jobs, nice salaries at the tax payers expense and day long meetings in posh arts buildings. For some that is probably true but for most it most certainly isn’t The reality is better illustrated by independent dance maker Joss Carter. It’s […]
Eleesha Drennan, for many years a dancer and choreographer with National Dance Company Wales, is setting out on the long road to forging her career as a dance maker with ‘Channel Rose’ the first work created and performed under her own company name. This full evening piece features three dancers and live music, not a […]
Eleesha Drennan, for many years a dancer and choreographer with National Dance Company Wales, is setting out on the long road to forging her career as a dance maker with ‘Channel Rose’ the first work created and performed under her own company name. This full evening piece features three dancers and live music, not a […]
Candoco are back with two new(ish) pieces of work that illustrate that rep companies have the advantage when it comes to creative variety in pieces. ‘Let’s Talk about Dis’ from visual artist Hetain Patel and ‘Notturnino’ by little known, to these shores, Swiss dance maker Thomas Hauert make up the evening. While ‘Notturnino’ concerns itself […]
Candoco are back with two new(ish) pieces of work that illustrate that rep companies have the advantage when it comes to creative variety in pieces. ‘Let’s Talk about Dis’ from visual artist Hetain Patel and ‘Notturnino’ by little known, to these shores, Swiss dance maker Thomas Hauert make up the evening. While ‘Notturnino’ concerns itself […]
Candoco are back with two new(ish) pieces of work that illustrate that rep companies have the advantage when it comes to creative variety in pieces. ‘Let’s Talk about Dis’ from visual artist Hetain Patel and ‘Notturnino’ by little known, to these shores, Swiss dance maker Thomas Hauert make up the evening. While ‘Notturnino’ concerns itself […]
Following on from last years work ‘Pictures we Make’ the Manchester based dance company return to the stage with the company’s first full evening piece created solo by joint AD Anthony Missen. ‘Beauty of the Beast’ is an all male piece taking a long hard look at men, how they behave and why they behave […]
Following on from last years work ‘Pictures we Make’ the Manchester based dance company return to the stage with the company’s first full evening piece created solo by joint AD Anthony Missen. ‘Beauty of the Beast’ is an all male piece taking a long hard look at men, how they behave and why they behave […]
New dance makers are the lifeblood of the profession. If they don’t step up and make work then the wide world of dance is going to get pretty thin creatively over the coming years. One such dance maker is Johnny Autin, formerly of 2Faced Dance Company among others, and his new work ‘Taksim Square’ is […]