This work was originally created in 1998 by Darshan Singh Bhuller on his own company Singh Productions. Planted Seeds returns in 2003 with the larger Phoenix Dance Theatre under the direction of Bhuller for a winter tour. Based on events during the Yugoslavian war, Planted Seeds is an often disturbing look at the very human […]
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Following on from our interview with the Artistic Director of Motionhouse, Kevin Finnan, we bring you an exclusive look at Volatile the company’s current work touring this winter to a theatre near you (or at least within driving distance). Volatile is a little bit different in that the dancers never once touch the actual stage. […]
There are times when you start to forget why you liked dance to begin with. Too many performances seem to sap all the enthusiasm you ever had for the art form. Then there are those pieces of work that bring it all rushing back and you remember just why you love this art form so […]
Our first visit to Vienna for the ImPulsTanz festival was a week long experience of good shows and good workshops with Mona McCarthy at the helm for the video diaries this was a very different experience to the following year. The piece is still wrapped in our old design for the sake of convenience and […]
RASA was created by S4one Dance Company (now consigned to a very small part of the history of contemporary dance) in 2001. It was created specifically to be presented online at a time when the availability of dance on the Internet was pretty much non-existent. Well here we are a couple of years later and […]
The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance is the youngest of the four dance schools in the UK training dancers specifically for contemporary dance. Here we bring you three excerpts from the students excellent end of year performance held in the schools own theatre. We have featured three short sections from 3 of the works shown […]
In our first new video feature for a while we bring you The Flex, an integrated dance company (professional dancers working with dancers who aren’t trained professionals in case you were wondering) based in County Durham in the North of England. This impressive duet features Kate Lauridsen (pictured above left) and Jacqueline Davies performing a […]
Following on from out interview with the group of 5 girls we now bring you exclusive video footage from their first performance in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. The company are; Josie Lucas, Tertia Underhill, Imogen Bostock, Kellie Wilson and Sarah Morgan. The Making Statements company is the second outing for an experimental company […]
Last year the Lab featured several stages of the rehearsal period for this work. Now we bring you Moznayium live (almost, Ed) and on tour and it may well be coming to a theatre near you if there is any justice in the world. Choreographed by Noa Wertheim of Vertigo the Israel based contemporary dance […]
In our end of year review we speculated that this performance may be the most unique thing this year and we were not disappointed. In fact is was difficult to know where the performance ended and the party started for the audience and dancers alike. The Ball avoids the usual barriers between dancer and audience […]