Here in TheLab™ we have absolutely nothing against rich people. If we were burdened with massive wealth we would be doing the same thing as we are now but in a place with heating, running water and a few less giant rodents gnawing on the power cables! With that in mind we turn to Philip […]
Press releases are funny things, if for no other reason than they are usually terminally boring or patently ridiculous. The latest from Rambert Dance Company (the best dance company in the world if you believe their hype) is one such example. Sue Wyatt, a lady we have never met, has resigned as Chief Executive of […]
by Ira Schiff We’ve all been there. A dancer is on the stage bellowing his or her life story into a microphone whilst executing some random movement. From nowhere, and for no apparent reason, another dancer rushes across the stage wearing a crash helmet and runs straight into an adjacent wall. All the while, a […]
It would now appear that apart from asking the usual questions about your name, address, and telephone number on their funding application, Arts Council England would very much like to know, if it’s no bother, your sexual orientation! ACE, when asked, were a little unsure when the questions were added to the form but they […]
It seems our little piece slapping Scottish Ballet around has ruffled a few feathers, including those of one of the dancers involved, with the good folks in dance coming down on both sides of the argument for and against using your dancers as stooges to raise useless sums of money. CriticalDance.com, a website that should […]
In a sign of the increasing desperation marketing savvy of the dance world Scottish Ballet has decided to put two of its dancers on the meat open market. An online auction on eBay offers up dinner for two with either Soon Ja Lee or Jarrko Lehmus, both soloists with the company. The auction entry describes […]
By Neil Nisbet Several years ago a documentary on William Forsythe showed the American dance maker creating a solo with one of his dancers from Ballet Frankfurt. The two were engaged in a one on one creative battle to squeeze every ounce of precision out of a sequence of movement, the position of a hand, […]
Article19 reported in January last year on the formation of the Department for Culture Media and Sport’s (DCMS) ‘Dance Forum’ a group of administrators that would gather several times per year and discuss issues pertinent to dance so their conclusions could be relayed to central government for action. The Forum is administrated by DanceUK the […]
Wayne McGregor has been nominated for roughly 345,673 awards in the slew of prize giving ceremonies that are slated to be announced in the coming weeks, months and years. Among the nominations are: Acme™ GrowHairFast™ ‘Most Gullible Customer’ Award Time Magazine ‘Man of the Year’ Award Horticulture Society Best ‘bastard toadflax’ Award Time Magazine ‘Woman […]