The New York Times if often the place to turn for sober news coverage, informed editorials and a progressive voice or two. Unfortunately they get as slack as any other major paper when it comes to fawning coverage of the arts. The grandfather of dance, Merce Cunningham, one of New York’s perennial dance personalities, is […]
One of the often missed services that Arts Council England provides is something called the Arts Jobs List. It’s basically an old school email bulletin. Subscribers to the list get an email when somebody, somewhere posts information to the list and it is, remarkably, free of spam. What it is not free of is a […]
Our first video feature of the new year brings an experienced dancer to the stage with a solo performance of his own making. ‘Riff’ by Matthias Sperling is, in its own way, the dance equivalent of a music remix. The work takes its lead from samples of three established works by some of Europe’s top […]
Hard as this may be to believe the arts, as a whole, is working itself up into an enormous lather over the recent cuts announced to regularly funded organisations by Arts Council England. Such is the outrage that artists took to the streets this past Tuesday wearing masks and wielding banners, (stop giggling at the […]
The reviews section of Article19 lurks at the top of the page like a street urchin few people want to go near. We’ve never been a big fan of reviews here in TheLab™ so there it sits, looking nervous, waiting for the hammer to fall. Perhaps one day it will! With Resolution, the annual dance […]
You know you’re watching a high definition (HD) television channel because all the station ident logos, like the one above, have lots of wispy clouds of colour floating around to emphasise the fact there is more detail in the picture. They also add the “HD” tag onto absolutely everything lest the poor viewer becomes confused […]
The end of the year is always a jarring moment for us, here in TheLabâ„¢, because we realise that in spite of all the practical, financial and logistical data saying we shouldn’t still exist here we are, lurking around like a black hole looking for a galaxy to swallow. As we approach year nine of […]
On October 16th this year Arts Council England (ACE) told Article19 that the “vast majority” of regularly funded arts organisations (RFO) in England would be receiving “good news” about their ongoing commitment to provide support. It would appear, following some recent revelations, that ACE has an interesting interpretation of the phrases “vast majority” and “good […]
When they close the book on dance blogging, history will note that it was here, and here alone, that Panda bears and cocaine were mentioned in the same piece of writing. It is those two most disparate elements that highlight at least one of the shortcomings when professional dancers take to the blogosphere. Pandas come […]
It’s one thing when we, here in TheLab™ have to get on the metaphorical soap box and decry ACE for wasting huge sums of money on things that were, on reflection, not worth the price of a carton of milk. It’s another thing altogether to ask, if they were really serious about something, why didn’t […]