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Why The Hate?

Why do they do it? Why do they hate dancers so? What have they done to deserve it? Why, why why? What the hell are we talking about you ask? Among their many crimes in the online space The Place and Londondance.com’s most egregious sin is wasting the time of professional dancers looking for work. […]

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Dance Umbrella Goes Global!

Here in the UK you may not be too familiar with the US cable news channel MSNBC, a 24 hour operation operated by NBC and, oddly enough, Microsoft. With that in mind you may be startled to learn that they ran a quick segment on Dance Umbrella. Before folks get too excited about this global […]

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Rosie Kay Dance Company ‘Supernova’

For those of you that don’t know a ‘Supernova’ occurs when stars (the planetary objects not those losers from American Idol) explode as they collapse in on themselves because they’ve used up all their fuel and there’s nothing left but to go BANG! What has that got to do with this piece of dance making […]

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Jasmin Vardimon Co. ‘Yesterday’

Jasmin Vardimon Company takes the record for the most video features on Article19 (five if you’re keeping count). The company’s latest work keeps up a strong track record of outstanding dance making and the best collection of dancers currently in the wild.

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Epic Fail?

It’s no secret at all that Arts Council England (ACE) doesn’t know its technological arse from its elbow. Only ACE could spend millions on a computer system that doesn’t speed up funding applications, doesn’t allow you to make funding applications online and doesn’t actually do anything at all an industrious individual with an iPhone couldn’t […]

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No Prize for Old Rope

The Place Prize has been lurching around in London for a while now, they have made it to the semi-finals stage, but unless you live in London and actually attend one of the performances you would probably never know it existed. The Place themselves will probably give you several reasons, most of which are completely […]

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MK Raw 2008 ‘Contemporary’

It’s that time of year again as MKT Raw 2008 comes back into view, just as summer slips over the horizon! MKT is short for Milton Keynes Theatre but that’s about as catchy as something that’s not really very catchy at all so you can understand the initials. Lest you be unfamiliar with the annual […]

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MK Raw 2008 ‘Jazz’

It’s that time of year again as MKT Raw 2008 comes back into view, just as summer slips over the horizon! MKT is short for Milton Keynes Theatre but that’s about as catchy as something that’s not really very catchy at all so you can understand the initials. Lest you be unfamiliar with the annual […]

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MK Raw 2008 ‘Street’

It’s that time of year again as MKT Raw 2008 comes back into view, just as summer slips over the horizon! MKT is short for Milton Keynes Theatre but that’s about as catchy as something that’s not really very catchy at all so you can understand the initials. Lest you be unfamiliar with the annual […]

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Blogging ACE

When it comes to openness and transparency Arts Council England (ACE) bears more than a passing resemblance to a very large brick wall. That is to say, they are the very antithesis of being transparent. If you’re still reading after that most tortured of metaphors then we shall proffer a simple apology and continue. With […]