Social networking, on the internet at least, is a phenomenon (or irritation) that’s very hard to ignore and depending on who you talk to it is either the saviour of mankind or an unrelenting scourge that will be the end of us all. (the Imp appears to be in Drama Queen overdrive today! Ed!) For […]
People on the “inside” of the business that we call show are well aware of the dubious practice of selective quoting that goes on for publicity materials. A word removed here and there, a little bit of context obscured, that sort of thing. It’s well known that when it comes to dance film we, here […]
Arts Council England (ACE) has a mantra which states; “never say anything with 100 words when it can be said in a 10,000 word summary that no one will ever read”. With that in mind they have released the results of a year long “Public Value” study, the point of which was to keep someone […]
Scottish Dance Theatre’s second appearance on Article19 follows a very different path from their last work. ‘Tenderhook’ by Liv Lorent is not an example of flashy choreography, rather, a more thoughtful study of complex issues. This is dance making for the thinker.
The procedure for Article19 securing permission to film a performance is pretty straight forward. We call or email the company, explain what we want to do, the company, almost always, say yes. The company then let the venue know that a camera operator will be there and that’s pretty much all there is to it. […]
Last weeks announcement that arts funding will not be cut back to pay for the Olympics, in fact funding is going up in line with inflation plus 1.1%, have brought the great and not so good out of the wood work to wax lyrical. Arts funding for ACE will increase by £28million over the next […]
The petition to try and persuade the Government to not spend huge sums of money (£9.5Billion at the last count) on the London Olympics in 2012 has, as expected, fallen on deaf ears. The Prime Minister’s office has responded to the petition, as they are required to do, and Fauston Carpet, our resident language expert, […]
As one Article19’s readers can be heard yelling “YES” at the top of their collective voice but hear the man out first and then answer. It appears that one of Mr Hirst’s famous, or infamous, pieces of art is leaking and needs to be repaired, or something like that. The man responsible for sticking cows […]
This coming November the Government will announce their, so-called, comprehensive spending review. This review will determine just how much money goes where from the national budget of approximately £500Billion. Arts Council England has been fretting about this review to such an extent they have been slashing budgets and sounding the death throes of the arts […]
If you’re looking for good ideas from the dance administration machine they are, like the mythical Scottish Haggis, hard to find. They do exist however and often times they are based on well worn ideas of old. Dance Umbrella, the annual dance festival based in London, has dusted off one such idea for their up […]