Retina Dance Company return to Article19 for the third time with their new show ‘Antipode’ . The company is also celebrating their 15th anniversary this year which is a really long time in this business that we call show (who calls it that? Ed!) ‘Antipode’ itself is performed by 5 male dancers and explores the […]
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Teach Creativity
The above video features author Ken Robinson making a presentation at TED (Technology, Education, Design) discussing the importance of children being taught to be creative rather than purely academically. Quite a bit of the presentation is concerned with dance. It’s insightful and incredibly funny and reminds this writer of the time when an art teacher […]
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Cheerleading
by Neil Nisbet A comment we, here in TheLabâ„¢ and you, our dear readers, probably hear or read quite often is “we encourage healthy debate on (insert you’re own topic here)”. The comment is usually made by the individual/group/organisation that is being debated but more often than not they would, if it’s all right with […]
Article19’s second feature from the October dance festival that was Coda in Norway features dance maker Cristina Caprioli and company (ccap) with ‘Cicadaremix’, a word that is surprisingly difficult to remember how to spell! The Swedish dance company (a first on Article19) brings us a deliberate and relentless display of neo-classical shenanigans. Mixing together contemporary […]
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Javier Booted from BBC
BBC News is reporting that the BBC (it’s always a bit weird when they do that!) is shelving plans to run all four acts of ‘In The Spirit of Diaghilev’ from its Christmas schedule. The four acts of the performance, all created by different dance makers, run as one show but the segment created by […]
It has been more than 3 years since we last featured the goings on at one of Norway’s brightest dance companies. With their latest touring efforts we have ‘Private Rite’ from Canadian dancesmith Hélène Blackburn and ‘WeFiction’ created by the company. With Panta Rei we have a company that’s all about the movement and custom […]
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Stop Laughing At The Back!
Sadler’s Wells Theatre makes it back into the headlines, well here at least, after it was discovered they have the “best dance video on the web”! Seriously? Our editor laughed so hard he fell of his chair and broke a hip! The London theatre is apparently not content with declaring that it “is dance” (whatever […]
French Canadian dance maker José Navas comes to Article19 with a new work called ‘S’ along with his company Compagnie Flak. We caught the show at the Coda Dance Festival in Norway back in October. For those of you that like your dance making and performance pure then this is as pure as it gets. […]
Pair Dance, helmed by dancer/choreographer Harriet Macauley and soundsmith Richard Leonard, last appeared on Article19 about eighteen months ago with the superbly crafted ‘Silent Steps’ one of the highlights of the Big Mission festival. That particular work is soon to be retired but the company have two new pieces in the pipeline for future touring. […]
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Still Here?
As the world gets metaphorically smaller thanks to the wonder/curse of the internet, online video, free communication systems and the PDF document making print material almost redundant British Dance Edition (BDE), in the eyes of some, is struggling to remain relevant. Next years event, hosted by DanceXchange (DX) in Birmingham from the 3rd to the […]