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 […]
Lizzy Aggis Watch and Learn
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 […]
Think of the Children
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. […]
Dancing Through The Ages
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 […]
Khan is Yoda, Yoda is Khan?
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 […]
Review of 2005
Welcome dear readers to our end of year review as we start the new year with a brand new layout and lots of new content to come. Was it a good year? Was it a bad year? Does anybody really care? We expect not but we ‘ll plough ahead in any case and see what […]