With the farcical nonsense surrounding Simone Clarke and her membership of the BNP getting more and more out of control it is perhaps time to pause for thought. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day in the United States in memory of the greatest civil rights campaigner that ever was and the wonder of technology […]
The press flacks at the English National Ballet (ENB) will be wishing they didn’t have to get out of bed this morning after they found out a group of ‘anti-fascists’ will be picketing the London Coliseum in protest at principal dancer Simone Clarke’s membership of the BNP. At present the best they can come up […]
News reaches us that Malcolm Fraser, he’s an architect (allegedly), will be in charge of building the Scottish Ballet’s new home at the Tramway in Glasgow. Normally such things wouldn’t concern us since SB is a ballet company, obviously, and the less said about architects the better. However, a quick glance at the images of […]
Simone Clarke’s recent ‘outing’ as a member of the far right political party the BNP (British National Party) is nothing short of a public relation disaster for her employers, the English National Ballet, Arts Council England and the company’s sponsors. The inevitable calls for Ms Clark to be sacked were predictable and perhaps understandable considering […]
Article19 rolls into its sixth year online with our traditional end of year review. Unlike other publications we actually write ours after the year is over, not like the clowns in the national press who do theirs in July while on holiday in Tenerife! Why else do you think they never mention something that happens […]
As we roll up to Christmas and all that goes with it the ‘arts team’ at The Guardian, completely stumped for anything approaching an original idea to write about, came up with asking ‘artists’ about their ‘perfect christmas tree’. I swear I’m not making this up! The resulting image gallery makes you glad you’re not […]
We first featured footage from Vincent Dance Theatre’s ‘Broken Chords’ over a year ago along with our second video interview with Charlotte Vincent. This coming January the work takes to the stage again to kick of the company’s winter tour of this heady mixture of dance, drama and comedy.
Apparently we are all now ‘Times Person of the Year’ the annual accolade usually dispensed to one influential individual for good reasons and bad has come to the masses and it’s about time too! (no pun intended). This year Time magazine decided that thanks to the massive influence of the internet we, that means you […]
Opera star Roberto Alagna took to the stage for a performance of ‘Aida’ at the La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy this past Sunday and promptly walked right off again after he was booed by the audience during the show. The comic turn of events continued when his understudy, Antonello Palombi, came on stage […]
by Susan Cunningham Therapy is one of those words in the English language that is often misused. People talk light-heartedly of going for “retail therapy” and at the other end of the scale we often hear of people going in to therapy to treat drug or alcohol addiction. The actual definition of therapy lies somewhere […]