Following on from our interview with the Artistic Director of Motionhouse, Kevin Finnan, we bring you an exclusive look at Volatile the company’s current work touring this winter to a theatre near you (or at least within driving distance). Volatile is a little bit different in that the dancers never once touch the actual stage. […]
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Brand New ACE
As of now the Arts Council of England and the Regional Arts Boards that provided funding and advice to artists from all art forms across the country have ceased to exist. Arts Council, England and 9 regional offices have replaced them; essentially they have become one big organisation. So what do the changes really mean […]
There are times when you start to forget why you liked dance to begin with. Too many performances seem to sap all the enthusiasm you ever had for the art form. Then there are those pieces of work that bring it all rushing back and you remember just why you love this art form so […]
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Name The Dancer
by Deborah Barnard DanceUK recently published a document to encourage all aspects of the dance profession and the arts media to give dancers the respect they deserve by providing full credit for the part they play in this profession. All to often it seems dancers are regarded as mere tools for choreographers and dance companies […]
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Show Me The Money
Every so often Arts Council England (ACE) releases a document that tells you exactly what you want and need to know without any of the usual spin we have all become accustomed to from our bureaucratic organisations. One such document is the “Spending Plan for Regularly Funded Organisations” which will tell you exactly what it […]
Our first visit to Vienna for the ImPulsTanz festival was a week long experience of good shows and good workshops with Mona McCarthy at the helm for the video diaries this was a very different experience to the following year. The piece is still wrapped in our old design for the sake of convenience and […]
RASA was created by S4one Dance Company (now consigned to a very small part of the history of contemporary dance) in 2001. It was created specifically to be presented online at a time when the availability of dance on the Internet was pretty much non-existent. Well here we are a couple of years later and […]
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ANDA In A Spin
by Ira Schiff The UK has been enthralled, (or is it bored stupid?), by the ongoing scuffle between the BBC and the government over “dodgy dossiers”, spin, creative writing and outright lies. If nothing else this little scuffle has highlighted how writing and the documents presented to the people can paint a very rosy picture […]
The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance is the youngest of the four dance schools in the UK training dancers specifically for contemporary dance. Here we bring you three excerpts from the students excellent end of year performance held in the schools own theatre. We have featured three short sections from 3 of the works shown […]
In our first new video feature for a while we bring you The Flex, an integrated dance company (professional dancers working with dancers who aren’t trained professionals in case you were wondering) based in County Durham in the North of England. This impressive duet features Kate Lauridsen (pictured above left) and Jacqueline Davies performing a […]