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Show Them The Money

Uber, in-case you don’t know, is a taxi company that pretends not be a taxi company. Aside from being a taxi company pretending not to be a taxi company they are, demonstrably, a terrible organisation to work for. Their drivers are underpaid, the company is embroiled in a series of scandals involving sexual harassment and […]

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Game of Numbers

Just over a year ago we, here in TheLab™, wrote about Canvas, a YouTube project funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to the tune of £1.8Million that was supposed to help arts organisations, specifically NPOs, monetise their media content on the world’s most chaotic video website. Promises were made, numbers were touted and, as expected, […]

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Hagit Yakira Dance ‘Free Falling’

Let’s visit some brand new work from Israeli dance maker Hagit Yakira with her quartet of dancers and their two pieces ‘Air Hunger’ and ‘Free Falling’ based on the choreographer’s experiences working in dance therapy. For many years now I wanted to create a piece that somehow presents different anxieties I became familiar with while […]

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Hagit Yakira Dance ‘Air Hunger’

Let’s visit some brand new work from Israeli dance maker Hagit Yakira with her quartet of dancers and their two pieces ‘Air Hunger’ and ‘Free Falling’ based on the choreographer’s experiences working in dance therapy. For many years now I wanted to create a piece that somehow presents different anxieties I became familiar with while […]

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Company Chameleon ‘Witness’

Manchester based Company Chameleon are back on tour with a new work by company AD Kevin Turner ‘Witness’, a piece that explores Mr Turner’s own struggles with bi-polar disorder and how it affected not only him but all of those around him. “Witness the main piece in this double-bill, turns the spotlight on mental health […]

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Company Chameleon ‘Witness’ Interview

Manchester based Company Chameleon are back on tour with a new work by company AD Kevin Turner ‘Witness’, a piece that explores Mr Turner’s own struggles with bi-polar disorder and how it affected not only him but all of those around him. “Witness the main piece in this double-bill, turns the spotlight on mental health […]

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Company Chameleon ‘Words Unspoken’

Manchester based Company Chameleon are back on tour with a new work by company AD Kevin Turner ‘Witness’, a piece that explores Mr Turner’s own struggles with bi-polar disorder and how it affected not only him but all of those around him. “Witness the main piece in this double-bill, turns the spotlight on mental health […]

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Alleyne Dance Interview Feature

Kristina and Sadé Alleyne are two relatively unique professional dancers. Graduates of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance they have been working as professionals for many years with a wide range of dance companies, most recently Akram Khan Company. Now though they are branching out into their own choreographic work with ‘A Night’s Game’. We […]

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Alleyne Dance ‘A Night’s Game’

Kristina and Sadé Alleyne are two relatively unique professional dancers. Graduates of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance they have been working as professionals for many years with a wide range of dance companies, most recently Akram Khan Company. Now though they are branching out into their own choreographic work with ‘A Night’s Game’. We […]

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Atop The Mountain

The more astute among you, or those that can simply read a calendar, may have noticed that this column has not been updated since June of last year when, ironically, we spoke of the arts world and its reluctance to speak out on any subject at all. June was also the month of the catastrophic […]