We first featured footage from Vincent Dance Theatre’s ‘Broken Chords’ over a year ago along with our second video interview with Charlotte Vincent. This coming January the work takes to the stage again to kick of the company’s winter tour of this heady mixture of dance, drama and comedy.
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Two kinetically named dance companies in as many weeks, what are we to do? Ricochet Dance Productions, the renamed Ricochet Dance Company, have been in the mix for for 17 years now commissioning works from old and new dance makers alike.
Normally, here in TheLab™ we are not big fans of kinetic names for dance companies but we can let ‘Collision’ go because we like the idea of smashing things together, just don’t judge us for it!
It is fitting that one of the final video features we will be carrying this year is also one of the best new works we have featured. Wired Aerial Theatre’s work ‘Handmade/Manmade’ is a stand out creation because not only is it very clever, superbly performed and crafted it’s actually entertaining.
Another overseas hidden gem reveals itself in the form of Dance Theatre Ireland, based in the Republic of Ireland, no more than a stones throw away from the English coast but isolated, sort of, by hefty touring costs. Although they have ventured into Europe during the company’s ten years the current tour is, for the […]
Loretta Yurick is the Irish-American co-director of Dance Theatre of Ireland with Robert Connor. The company based in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin is now in its 17th year of producing contemporary dance work.
Another overseas hidden gem reveals itself in the form of Dance Theatre Ireland, based in the Republic of Ireland, no more than a stones throw away from the English coast but isolated, sort of, by hefty touring costs. Although they have ventured into Europe during the company’s ten years the current tour is, for the […]
When we told one of our contemporaries that Article19 had been to Edinburgh to see Scottish Dance Theatre and the performance was rather good, said contemporary looked slightly bemused as to why these particular hardened foot soldiers had enjoyed lots of sword skipping and reels!
Rumours of Northern Youth Dance Company’s (NYDC) demise would seem to have been premature as the company is currently in the middle of a creative period before launching into a tour of venues far and wide. We feature one of their touring pieces ‘Flip Flopping Between Agony And Ecstasy’, a strong contender for the ‘Eh?’ […]
Contemporary dance is rife with new work from dance makers at the tail end of the funding scale, for now at least. A recent festival, New Vibes, hosted by DanceXchange in Birmingham was one such showcase of new work for the emerging talents and we’re going to bring three of them here to you, right […]