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 […]
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Bankrupt Thinking
For the last few years working in the arts has been a more unpredictable and stressful endeavour than usual. Cuts to funding at the national and local level are causing massive headaches and losses to local arts provision, touring and a whole lot more. It was surprising then when George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer […]
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48 Hours
For anybody working in a freelance capacity, no matter what the trade, the biggest challenge is not necessarily finding work to begin with but getting paid for doing that work. Simply put, freelancers have to wait far too long in many instances to get paid for the work they do. In our own experience, here […]
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 […]