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 […]
We first featured ‘5 Soldiers’ from Rosie Kay Dance Company almost five years ago during its inaugural tour in 2010. Unusually for a contemporary dance work it’s still touring, with an all new cast, and making people think about all the wars we keep fighting. The piece itself tells the story of a group of […]
It’s EDge time again as the post graduate company from the London Contemporary Dance School take to the road with four new works from dance makers Siobhan Davies, Eleesha Drennan, Robert Clark and Itamar Serussi. Combine those four with the 12 superb dancers from the company and you have a rich mix of creative work […]
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EDge 2015 ‘Interview Feature’
It’s EDge time again as the post graduate company from the London Contemporary Dance School take to the road with four new works from dance makers Siobhan Davies, Eleesha Drennan, Robert Clark and Itamar Serussi. Combine those four with the 12 superb dancers from the company and you have a rich mix of creative work […]
It’s EDge time again as the post graduate company from the London Contemporary Dance School take to the road with four new works from dance makers Siobhan Davies, Eleesha Drennan, Robert Clark and Itamar Serussi. Combine those four with the 12 superb dancers from the company and you have a rich mix of creative work […]
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One Of Those Times
By Neil Nisbet A few weeks ago I interviewed Hannah Rotchell (pictured above) a dancer with JV2, the post graduate company set up by Jasmin Vardimon Company to provide additional training and work experience for dancers. Ms Rotchell, a graduate of LCDS in London, is perhaps everything you would want in a professional dancer; Prodigiously […]
2Faced Dance Company are once again touring in the wide world of dance with a new double bill featuring work from the company AD Tamsin Fitzgerald ‘Lucid Grounds’ and ‘Milk Night’ created by Frantic Assembly’s Eddie Kay. The works tour under the banner ‘Dreaming in Code’. Each work is streakily different. ‘Milk Night’ is a […]
In 2013 Article19 spent a day at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds filming and speaking with a number of students and faculty about the work they do at the school preparing for a life in the wide world of dance. This time out we returned to spend a day with the first […]
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The Three Mouseketeers
As any good Yorkshireman would say at a time of heightened crises or distress; “There’s trouble at T’mill”. Profuse apologies to none Yorkshire folk and overseas readers if you have no frame of reference for that particular metaphor. Three greats of the wide world of dance (no, seriously); Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter and Lloyd Newson […]
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Will Work For Space
The story of newly constructed dance buildings in the UK is not a good one. Often constructed at massive expense and demonstrating minimal public or professional benefit the obsession with “new builds” continues almost unabated, even with massive cuts to the arts. Our recent piece on Rambert Dance Company and their massively expensive new facility […]