Dance is often described, usually in a whimsical tone of voice with folk music as accompaniment, as a “universal language”. Dance is a form of expression that transcends the spoken word, different cultures, religions, even continents are no obstacle to its communicative powers. You don’t need to speak French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, […]
It’s unusual for members of the dance fraternity to engage in open warfare, through the media, but that is what’s happening between Terry Dean Bartlett and Elizabeth Streb, the AD of Streb Extreme Action (yes, that’s really what the company is called!) Our European readers may be in the dark a little about just what […]
by Neil Nisbet “If a professional dancer makes just one wrong move in class, in rehearsal or on stage it could, literally, be the end of their career.” That was the opening line to a feature piece written back in April within this very tome. Just last week this became all too real as our […]
The latest dance “media” project causing a fuss in the wide world of dance is the ‘Slow Dances’ project by David Michalek, an artist of sorts who has chosen to point high speed film cameras at dancers, and little else! Essentially, a dancer does a five second piece of movement filmed at approximately 1000 frames […]
Summer is usually not a good time for dance, the theater’s are all closed and most of the good company’s are on holiday or filling out 400 pages of funding applications. However, it’s also the time for the new companies to come to the fore and show what they’re made of. The summer months are […]
The new Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in England, James Purnell, has promised to put an end to the mantra of achieving targets that have made the arts into little more than a process of arithmetic deduction for several years now. He made these promises during a speech at the National Portrait Gallery in […]
Fauston Carpet of the Amsterdam Research and Science Enterprise guest blogs on the Evil Imp to decipher the recently released job description for the new Artistic Director of Dance City in Newcastle upon Tyne. The National Dance Agency is sans leadership at the moment because the last one, Janet Archer, now works for ACE in […]
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Staring into the inky murk on stage, shapes shift unnoticed from side to side, front to back, duets come together, intertwine, move on and repeat with effortless grace. A trio slides onto the stage from the left at the rear, three highly skilled dancers execute rapid flashes of movement, perfectly in synch, their musicality is […]
A couple of strange things have popped up today in some audition notices, well, one is curious and the other one unintentionally prompted us, here in TheLab™, to almost throw up. An audition notice for a television show on LivingTV states thus; “We’re looking for talented, great-looking male dancers for a dance competition show which […]