Contemporary dance is rife with new work from dance makers at the tail end of the funding scale, for now at least. A recent festival, New Vibes, hosted by DanceXchange in Birmingham was one such showcase of new work for the emerging talents and we’re going to bring three of them here to you, right […]
Rumours of Northern Youth Dance Company’s (NYDC) demise would seem to have been premature as the company is currently in the middle of a creative period before launching into a tour of venues far and wide. We feature one of their touring pieces ‘Flip Flopping Between Agony And Ecstasy’, a strong contender for the ‘Eh?’ […]
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Where Are The Dancers?
During a second round World Cup match this summer between Italy and Australia in Germany an Italian player, Fabio Grosso, collapsed in a heap on top of Australian player Lucas Neill. The Italians were awarded a penalty, scored it, end of game, end of tournament for Australia. The only problem is that several high definition, […]
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OK GO Do It Again
We reported on OK GO’s last music video, made in their back garden with no money, and the boys from the worst dressed band in the world have made another stunning piece of choreography with little more than a cheap DV camera, a few treadmills and some ok-ish music. They really do need to sort […]
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Taking the P*ss?
Impulstanz in their fervour of post modernist celebration are running a little tidbit from the Jonathan Burrows piece ‘Both Sitting Duet’ where the two protagonists – Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion – are literally just sitting down and flapping their arms about! Ok so they do a little bit more than just flap their arms […]
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Big Dance Low Key
You may or may not have noticed that the past week from 15th July to the 23rd of July was Big Dance Week or whatever Arts Council England were calling this colossal PR exercise that was almost certainly a waste of time “week-long, England-wide celebration of dance. Everyone is invited to take part in a […]
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Ross’s Rich Pickings
If you thought there was no money in the publicly subsidised arts sector then spare a thought for Jonathan Ross, the BBC One, Radio 2 presenter. Such is the publicly financed, national broadcasters desire to hang onto the ‘talents’ of Mr Ross they are prepared to shell out £12.5 Million to him, over the next […]
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Timing is Everything
Filed under ‘bad timing shame about the publicity image’ Newcastle sees the launch of the Vamos Festival – or !Vamos! with the first ! inverted but we can’t do that with html – a celebration of ‘Spanish and Portuguese speaking global cultures.’ This, just one week after Portugal dumped good old England out of the […]
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Silly Webby
Ballet.Co, the ballet equivalent to Article19, sort of, has a rather curious request on its link pages which we feel merits a mention. The site compiles a daily list to various ballet related stories around the internet from newspapers, magazines and whomever else happens to write anything on contemporary dance’s slightly high strung, classical counterpart; […]