Jasmin Vardimon Company are back on the road after a long break with their brand new work ‘Justitia’ which brings court room drama to the stage along with some acting and a lot of high quality dance.
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Push Back
If you’ve been following the news, which is a struggle sometimes I know, then you will of course have heard about the cuts to the Grant for the Arts programme made by ACE a couple of weeks ago. Well to say they announced it is a bit of a stretch. Just did it then cowered […]
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Vomit Mustard Yellow
We must apologise for the picture above. We had nothing to do with creating it but publish it we must for, after all, how can we mock the inept and the stupid if we don’t illustrate why we are mocking them and calling them stupid? That image was mailed to Article19 by Arts Council England […]
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Ave atque vale
The non announcement by Arts Council England that Grants for the Arts will be cut by a staggering 35% (£29million) is further evidence, if any were needed, that ACE are poor stewards of this country’s artistic well being. It is ironic that just last week Jo Saucek, the online editor of Arts Debate, ACE’s latest […]
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Submarine Car
In the second part of our series looking at rich people doing stupid things we focus on a young lady known only as ‘Hayley’ who is under the slightly misguided impression the Merecedes Benz sports cars have underwater capabilities. It seems ‘Hayley’, being a few brain cells short of having an actual brain, decided to […]
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Begging For More
by Neil Nisbet “Through a wide reaching programme of research and consultation the Arts Council will explore how people value the arts and, by gaining a deeper understanding of what is important to them, become more accountable to the public it serves.” Thus begins Arts Council England’s latest attempt to get the public on board […]
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State of the Obvious
It’s been an interesting week in dance. We’ve seen some excellent dancers performing some excellent work and when you really get down to it that’s what this art form is all about. But then the politicians and the bureaucrats stick their oar into the creative waters and reality comes crashing through the calm surface like […]
Verve follow EDge and Transitions onto Article19 and complete the trio of graduate dance companies from the major dance schools in England. As soon as SSCD sort out their graduate company our collection will be complete. This particular company, for the moment at least, call the Northern School of Contemporary Dance their home and Verve […]
If you get a certain amount of deja vue while watching this video feature of Ultima Vez then fret not because not only is Spiegel a retrospective on some of the company’s work from the last two decades but a lot of the movement style you see here has found its way into hundreds of […]
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Stop The Madness
Olympics Update 2: News reaches TheLab™ that the cost of staging the 2012 Olympics in London has now ballooned to a staggering £9billion GBP ($17.5billion USD) up from the previously forecast total of “only” £2.8billion GBP ($5.4billion USD). Over £2billion is reserved for contingency funding just in case the whole thing blows up the faces […]