Please forgive us for just a moment, because we are about to indulge our inner child and present you with a unique opportunity to spread the good word about your favourite dance magazine. What you see above is Article19’s very own race car, well, one of several of our race cars but we chose the […]
After a long hiatus the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance return to Article19 with their latest end of year performance, a showcase of choreography new and old from all three years of the schools students.
Those of you who follow US politics will be familiar with the mantra of the Bush administration when any of the President’s advisers are asked to testify before Congress about what bare faced lie or illegal act they have been responsible for lately. “Revealing what was said between the President and his advisors would restrict […]
As the rest of the arts in the UK struggle to come to grips with the massive cuts to Grants For The Arts (GFA) made by Arts Council England (ACE) the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London has decided to splash out on its very own DVD distribution company. ROH has bought Opus Arte UK […]
A few days back some members of TheLab™ went to a showcase dance performance. You know the sort of thing, several works, different dance makers, all a bit of a mixed bag between creative professionals and first timers. In the mix was a hip hop company (or break-dance posse, krew (sic) or whatever) that appeared […]
Following on from the sand and slings tale that was ‘Perfect’, Motionhouse Dance Theatre return to the touring world with their latest work ‘Driven’. No sand this time but we do have lots of flying about, stools, projections, magic walls and a whole lot more, we think their going to need a bigger touring truck! […]
Most ridiculous quote of the year, so far, has to go to Karole Armitage a veteran choreographer who presented the premiere of her new piece, ‘Gran Partita’, with Rambert at Sadler’s Wells yesterday. When discussing the work in an “interview” with LondonDance.com she said, no kidding; “I hope to show a post-quantum theory, democratic, multi-dimensional […]
In our second Royal Opera House story of the day we focus on the selective facts coming out of ROH about the recent donation from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation of £10Million (GBP). With regards to the donation itself there is nothing to report, it’s all ship-shape, above board and any other ridiculous cliche you can […]
News came through last week that the Paul Hamlyn Foundation has given our old friends at the Royal Opera House a rather hefty donation of £10Million (GBP). The money will be placed into an endowment to provide year on year funds for what the Opera House calls “education and access activities”. A further portion of […]
Whilst most people in the arts are infuriated about the huge cuts being made to funding by ACE there are some that have expressed sympathy for the funding giant because the cuts are really being made by the Government so the ire of the masses should be focused on them. Indeed the Government, specifically the […]