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Money Under The Bed

Arts Council England (ACE) continue their “good christ how bad a week are we having?” with the announcement of a £40Million (GBP) fund to help certain companies in the arts that may or may not be struggling during the current economic bun fight. Astute readers may have noticed the story earlier this week that mentioned […]

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Dateline Antwerp

Belgium is home to some of the most hard core creatives in the dance world and now they’re taking it to the people with the project below that had 200 participants dancing a very tightly choreographed piece of work in the middle of an active train station in Antwerp. You will notice the complete lack […]

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DOT 504 ‘Holdin Fast’

If you want your dance/physical theatre edgy then look no further than mainland Europe. There’s a lot of angst, a lot of pent up energy and they’ve got the skills to pull the whole thing off. Enter, stage-left, DOT504 from the Czech Republic. Formed in 2006 the company have created and toured several works. ‘Holdin’ […]

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Mass Casualties

There are unconfirmed reports that at least 30-40 people have expired while watching Arts Council England’s online videos of their recent “Great Art” series of seminars held at the Sage Gateshead in, erm… Gateshead in the North East of England. Emergency services declined to comment on just how many instances of fatal “catatonic shock” have […]

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Ancient

It would appear that the awards people have been at it again. This curmudgeonly group of tweed wearing, tea drinking, scone scoffing individuals, smelling every so slightly of urine, have once again put their loafer covered feet firmly into their denture laden mouths. This time it’s the Olivier Awards and the septic group of individuals […]

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Tavaziva Dance ‘Kenyan Athlete’

Zimbabwean dance maker Bawren Tavaziva and Tavaziva Dance come to Article19 with two works from their brand new touring production featuring four pieces of work. Three of them new and one of them, ‘Silent Steps’, created by Harriet Macauley for her own company Pair Dance. Tavaziva have been up running now for the last four […]

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Tavaziva Dance ‘Silent Steps’

Zimbabwean dance maker Bawren Tavaziva and Tavaziva Dance come to Article19 with two works from their brand new touring production featuring four pieces of work. Three of them new and one of them, ‘Silent Steps’, created by Harriet Macauley for her own company Pair Dance. Tavaziva have been up running now for the last four […]

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Tavaziva Dance ‘My Friend Robert’

Zimbabwean dance maker Bawren Tavaziva and Tavaziva Dance come to Article19 with two works from their brand new touring production featuring four pieces of work. Three of them new and one of them, ‘Silent Steps’, created by Harriet Macauley for her own company Pair Dance. Tavaziva have been up running now for the last four […]

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Institutionally Bone Idle

On reflection this has not been a good couple of weeks for dance on the internet. The Hofesh thing didn’t work, Dance Uploaded TV is no good and now we have Sadler’s Wells Theatre (SWT) in London losing the plot completely with their launch of a global dance competition. What’s a “global dance competition” we […]

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Ready For A Close Up?

What you are looking at above, and we know you’re wondering, is a dancer from Hofesh Shechter [Dance Company]. We’re not sure which one it is, it might be the man himself, but it’s hard, very hard, to tell. The image was captured during the live “web cast” from the Roundhouse Theatre in London this […]