It’s not at all clear what was going through the collective mind of the creative team behind Phoenix Dance Theatre’s new show ‘Cattle Call’, if anything at all, but from our perspective, here in TheLab™, somebody, somewhere is making a very big mistake. The main problem, although there are many with this show, is that […]
Hear this, because we’re bringing you our first video feature from the recently completed International Dance Festival Birmingham which folded up its collective tents over the weekend. Rosie Kay Dance Company have followed a slightly unusual path to creating this work. ‘Double Points: K’ takes it’s inspiration from another piece of work by Dutch dance […]
One of the UK’s best known dance makers comes to Article19 with ‘Bahok’ a show created in collaboration with the National Ballet of China, and it’s not often you get to work with those guys. The show follows the theme of a group of travellers trapped in an airport where the mix of cultures and […]
Nobody who works in this business on a regular basis would deny that some dance makers can be (say it quietly) a little bit pretentious! Or hugely pretentious come to think of it. All too often they will spend more time waxing lyrical about their work than actually working on their work. (the language is […]
The last time we featured Gravity and Levity was a good few years ago, way back during BDE 2006 as it happens, and on that occasion giant hamster wheels were the order of the day. This time out with their new work ‘Shift’ the company bring us one of the most complicated set designs we […]
Our second feature from The Big Mission festival, more to follow next week, shows ACE Dance and Music in full flight performing one their works from the ‘Skin’ tour. ‘Letlalo’, choreographed by Vincent Mantsoe, features about 5 minutes of gentle adage work and 30 minutes of hard core dancing performed at full speed by the […]
The recent Big Mission Festival that took place in Swindon last week is living proof that the festival circuit is the best place to look for new hidden gems from dance makers. Harriet Macauley’s Pair Dance brought ‘Silent Steps’ to the table and provided the morning audience (the festival started in the morning and kept […]
The question that has often been asked is; “can dance be the main event?” Meaning, is this much maligned art-form capable of catching the public’s attention in the same way as feature films and rock concerts and can it do so on a large scale? Often times the answer is; “no it can’t!” Dance performances […]
Some of you may well have noticed, and most you will not care one bit, that Arts Council England (ACE) has a new boss in the shape of Alan Davey their new Chief Executive. When there’s a change of leadership the hope is that things are going to be better than they were before. Considering […]
File this one under “don’t we make fun of you enough already?” because Wayne McGregor has become the all new, the one and only, wait for it……. “Youth Dance Champion” (seriously, stop giggling at the back!) That’s right boys and girls; Just like Hercules, Perseus and Doogal from the Magic Roundabout the young folks of […]