Without doubt YouTube, the online video site, is swamped with footage that is an absolute waste of storage space. But if you look very hard you can find some excellent examples of the good folks in this cynical world spreading the joy. One man in Sydney, Australia is spreading the love by spending one day […]
Two kinetically named dance companies in as many weeks, what are we to do? Ricochet Dance Productions, the renamed Ricochet Dance Company, have been in the mix for for 17 years now commissioning works from old and new dance makers alike.
OK, not really but the man who famously blew a gasket when Ballet Frankfurt were sponsored front of house by Cartier is now putting his face to Rolex watches (not literally though). The high brow ads, running in newspapers and posh magazines, describe Wild Bill as the ‘Darwin of Dance’, which presumably means he spent […]
When it comes to ‘sticking it to the man’ spreading graffiti all over the shop is usually one way to get yourself into a whole lot of trouble for very little in the way of a return. The Graffiti Research Lab – yes you read that correctly – have come up with a rather innovative, […]
Normally, here in TheLab™ we are not big fans of kinetic names for dance companies but we can let ‘Collision’ go because we like the idea of smashing things together, just don’t judge us for it!
So it begins! The estimated costs of putting on the London Olympics in 2012 have already started to get completely out of control. An announcement yesterday informed us all that the estimated cost of £2.4billion GBP ($4.5billion USD) to construct the Olympic Village – not stage the games themselves – will have to increase by […]
It is fitting that one of the final video features we will be carrying this year is also one of the best new works we have featured. Wired Aerial Theatre’s work ‘Handmade/Manmade’ is a stand out creation because not only is it very clever, superbly performed and crafted it’s actually entertaining.
Another overseas hidden gem reveals itself in the form of Dance Theatre Ireland, based in the Republic of Ireland, no more than a stones throw away from the English coast but isolated, sort of, by hefty touring costs. Although they have ventured into Europe during the company’s ten years the current tour is, for the […]
Another overseas hidden gem reveals itself in the form of Dance Theatre Ireland, based in the Republic of Ireland, no more than a stones throw away from the English coast but isolated, sort of, by hefty touring costs. Although they have ventured into Europe during the company’s ten years the current tour is, for the […]
Loretta Yurick is the Irish-American co-director of Dance Theatre of Ireland with Robert Connor. The company based in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin is now in its 17th year of producing contemporary dance work.