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The Telegraph newspaper, seemingly unable to write actual news stories anymore, about anything, brought us a process story about Morris Dancing, apparently it’s making a comeback! For the benefit of our non UK readers Morris Dancing is the only dance form that is more ridiculous than Line Dancing and the choreography of Matts Ek! Practiced […]

OK, the title is not nice, that much I acknowledge and if any of you are upset by it I offer you, by way of compensation for the emotional harm suffered, a hot chocolate and some buttered crumpets, what more can I do? It seems the sniveling wretches in question, the ACE funded pander squad […]

Why is it that a band making a video in their back yard with a $400 video camera because they don’t have the money to do it any other way looks way better and a damn sight more entertaining than the dance films we are all forced to watch that cost tens of thousands? OK […]

Every year LD.com (you should know who they are by now, wake up at the back), tries its very best to hawk the world’s worst christmas gifts, still featured on the site, onto their unsuspecting ‘readers’. This years calamity of yuletide foibles includes the ‘ballet’ themed wellington boots pictured left. All yours for just £9.95. […]

The Guardian yesterday seemed to be reaching for something new to talk about with dance so they ran a section in their G2 magazine about dancers who are all from various era’s. Nothing wrong with that except you have to ask why it’s interesting getting a silly group picture and all the information that you […]

A recent entry in the comedy section got me thinking that Akram Khan not only speaks like him but he also bears more than a passing resemblance to the philosophizing, little green, light saber twirler (surely the best part of those movies). You can make up your own mind with a cleverly constructed side by […]