Sometimes when you go to the theatre to see some new work all you’re really looking for is the opportunity to see someone enjoying their craft. We often use the term “dance maker” on Article19. We like it because it suggests to us, here in TheLab™, people diligently working to piece together movement, phrase by […]
Sometimes when you go to the theatre to see some new work all you’re really looking for is the opportunity to see someone enjoying their craft. We often use the term “dance maker” on Article19. We like it because it suggests to us, here in TheLab™, people diligently working to piece together movement, phrase by […]
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DanceTV Uploaded! Why Bother?
With their latest attempt to provide an online experience for dance built, so very obviously, by committee we have Chisenhale Dance Space, East London Dance, Greenwich Dance Agency and Laban getting egg all over their collective face with danceuploaded.tv. The usual suspects are all in evidence. You can upload video, you can embed video, you […]
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Don’t Be Good!
With Christopher Frayling’s whining voice ringing in our ears from the days old story of ACE not getting enough credit for being almost completely useless let’s take a look at a scenario from the recent past, shall we! Let’s take two dance companies, we’ll call them Company A and Company B, just for the sake […]
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It’s Not About You.
The outgoing Chairman of Arts Council England and all around idiot savant Christopher Frayling (who has a Knighthood that we regard as irrelevant so it will not be used here we say) has used his final speech to prove how completely out of touch he really is. The Stage is quoting him, and we’re not […]
With a name like Mad Dogs Dance Theatre you can throw out any expectations of demure, wafty dance making. ‘Beast’ is a good old fashion throw-back to the days of Euro Crash, when choreography was, to be blunt, just a little bit brutal. It’s hardly surprising considering the theme of the work which is all […]
Candoco Dance Company kick off 2009 with their new works by Hofesh Shechter and Nigel Charnock. An interesting mix of the new and old, a bit of calming chaos versus the slightly unhinged! We all know about Mr Shechter, if you don’t then where have you been for the last 12 months? With Candoco he’s […]
Candoco Dance Company kick off 2009 with their new works by Hofesh Shechter and Nigel Charnock. An interesting mix of the new and old, a bit of calming chaos versus the slightly unhinged! We all know about Mr Shechter, if you don’t then where have you been for the last 12 months? With Candoco he’s […]
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Polish Your Noggin
It’s silly season again in the arts with a slew of awards shows handing out gongs to the same people they always hand them out to. We’ve written about this before, and we’re getting tired of it!! The latest calamity is the South Bank Show Awards which, in a fit of peek, has given Wayne […]
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Hofesh of the Dance
Is Hofesh Shechter in danger of becoming the contemporary dance equivalent of Michael Flatley? If you don’t know who Mr Flatley is then all we shall say is ‘Lord of the Dance’ and “one trick pony” and leave it at that! How could we say such thing about the new darling of the contemporary dance […]