Imagine for a second that you are a female dance student at any dance school across this country, throughout Europe or anywhere else in the world. The chances are what you would see on any given morning was a studio where the majority of your peers are the same gender as you. Within the school […]
Tis the season and as such the newspapers, online or otherwise, have been making their picks for the top ten of this or the top five of that with many a dance company lapping up the attention and confirmation of their work they so unnecessarily desire. As is always the case the dance media, such […]
Whenever contemporary dance ends up on television it is never going to end well for all involved. Whether it’s a long form documentary or the showing of a piece of work (the rarest of things on network television) the only thing you can do is hold on for dear life and hope the art-form comes […]
Within the wide world of dance there is a persistent debate about the role of women in the profession and the astonishing lack of opportunities available to the gender that outnumbers men by a considerable margin. One reason, often cited by those “in the know”, is that women have children and little ones scampering about […]
For young dancers looking to make the transition from having some fun in dance classes during the week to having some fun in dance classes with the added bonus of studious technique training, health monitoring, summer intensives and regular performances then the establishment of the Centre For Advanced Training programme more than 10 years ago […]
When speaking to Janet Smith, the former Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre and current principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance, about Natalie Trewinnard, the dancer she invited into that company’s apprenticeship programme several years ago, she says; “I realised that we had invited in a Tigress on stage and a mouse into the […]
It is not too often that we revisit a contemporary dance work for re-featuring but there is a trend, sort of, with contemporary dance companies bringing older works back for a second round of touring in the wider world of dance. ‘Park’ from Jasmin Vardimon is one such work having previously bowed in 2005 the […]
We’re not sure when it started, maybe it’s always been like this and we just didn’t notice, but everything in the world, including the arts and especially dance, is subject to being graded on a curve. Concentrate, because things are about to get weird. Choreographer A is better than Choreographer B because Choreographer A is […]
New dance company on the block time with Rutherford Dance Company and their new piece ‘Never Going Home Again’ created by the titular artistic director Adam Rutherford a long time professional dancer and rehearsal director with 2Faced Dance Company among others. ‘Never Going Home Again’ takes a look at the increasingly anarchic situation in Russia […]
Sometimes, here in TheLab™, things can get a little bit delayed and this particular video feature has been delayed since June of last year when we filmed the graduating class of 2015 of Northern School of Contemporary Dance. All of these dancers are now in the wild, so to speak, finding their way in the […]