The last few weeks for dance and the arts in general have been one long list of stupid. From the outside looking in, the whole arts profession, from top to bottom, has the appearance of a clown car driving through a living manifestation of a Salvador Dali painting and driving that car are the alleged […]
Thanks to our inability, here in TheLab™, to read a calendar we missed Verve 2017 but we’re back with the latest year for the post-graduate company from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. This time out the company of 14 dancers are touring works by company AD Matthew Robinson with ‘Neversink’, Lenka Vagnerova with […]
Thanks to our inability, here in TheLab™, to read a calendar we missed Verve 2017 but we’re back with the latest year for the post-graduate company from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. This time out the company of 14 dancers are touring works by company AD Mathew Robinson with ‘Neversink’, Lenka Vagnerova with […]
Thanks to our inability, here in TheLab™, to read a calendar we missed Verve 2017 but we’re back with the latest year for the post-graduate company from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. This time out the company of 14 dancers are touring works by company AD Mathew Robinson with ‘Neversink’, Lenka Vagnerova with […]
Late last year (2017) Article19 was commisioned by Panta Rei Danseteater in Norway to make a behind the scenes video of their latest touring work ‘Make Me Dance’. Performed as part of the company’s Tilt project the work was performed 140 times to a collective audience of 10,000 people and featured a completely portable stage […]
Dance companies do not make an appearance in the national press news pages that often. If they do it’s because the company is doing something stupid or the paper is running a fawning profile to fill up space in the culture section. Step forward English National Ballet, the company’s director Tamara Rojo and dance writer […]
Last time out we brought you the eccentric ‘Plan B For Utopia’, the opening bow from Dundee based dance maker Joan Clevillé and his self-titled company and now they are back with a new work that is equally eclectic as the first; ‘The North’. The company say this much about the piece; It’s a place […]
Dance is a sexist profession. It is gender biased towards men, this is demonstrable and undeniable. Women don’t get hired to top jobs as much as men and they don’t get commissioned as often as men despite outnumbering those men by a wide margin. It is simply not believable that when considering candidates for the […]
In a much-delayed feature, we bring you Vanessa Cook Dance and their work ‘Creature’ performed for over a month at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a feat that requires nerves of steel from even the most hardened of performers. ‘Creature’ is a mix of aerial and more traditional contemporary dance and was adapted from a […]
Motionhouse are a company of more than 30 years standing and for 2017 they are delivering a massive electric shock to the system with their brand new work ‘Charge’ (I see what you did there! Ed!) For this video we went behind the scenes for the day to film some rehearsals and speak with Kevin […]