Almost during the last breath of 2008 we, here in TheLab™ caught our final show of 2008, the end of year show from the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance featuring the 3rd year and degree level students from the Dundee based school.
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Alan Yentob is a Plank!
Those of you who don’t live in the UK and don’t indulge in soporific BBC documentaries on the arts may have little or no clue at all about who Alan Yentob is. So read on dear reader and let us enlighten you! Mr Yentob has spent his entire life working for the BBC in one […]
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Being Fired For Effect?
There are a couple of tricks in the film business that are recommended for all of those new to the game. If you’re the director then always print the very first shot you take so the rest of the crew have confidence in you and the second one is hire someone just so you can […]
Almost two years ago to the day we last featured Dance Theatre of Ireland (DTI) with in house works from the company directors Loretta Yurick and Robert Connor, Charles Linehan bringing up the rear with his outside influence. This time out DTI have hooked up with Now Dance from South Korea for a new double […]
Almost two years ago to the day we last featured Dance Theatre of Ireland (DTI) with in house works from the company directors Loretta Yurick and Robert Connor, Charles Linehan bringing up the rear with his outside influence. This time out DTI have hooked up with Now Dance from South Korea for a new double […]
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The Sad Kitchen
If you have been paying attention you will remember the story we told you a few weeks ago about Sadler’s Wells/londondance.com “launching” a “new” video player on their respective websites. Both sites are run by the London theatre. It turns out that this “new player” was nothing more than a video hosting platform called Brightcove, […]
Last time we featured Diversions Dance Company was back in 2006 with a feature from British Dance Edition in Leeds. This time out we caught up with them in Liverpool performing ‘Peeled’ created by Israeli (based in Holland) dance maker Itzik Galili. The work is best described, we think, as a relentless piece of choreography […]
Our second feature from Galili Dance of Holland features the work ‘Six’. As you might expect there are six dancers in the work but also, as you would not expect at all, 5 dancers pushing large black boards around. The boards have the effect of breaking the space up into smaller segments so the dancers […]
First time feature alert here on Article19 as Galili Dance from Holland, run by Israeli dance maker Itzik Galili, bring not one, or two, or even three pieces of work for us here in TheLab™. You can catch ‘Peeled’ (the fourth work) performed by Diversions Dance Company, created by Mr Galili, over there on the […]
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The Politics of Women
by Neil Nisbet “We did ask a lot of women to apply but there aren’t that many who want to take on that job and I think that because it is such a male dominated world. Women are insecure about doing it because we [women] have always been led by men. So there you go!” […]