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Bare Bones 2 ‘Misconception’

They’re called Bare Bones because they dance on a bare stage and well………… the dancers do have bones in their body! (not sure that’s the real reason for the name but get on with it! Ed!) Our video feature brings you three exclusive clips from the company’s recent tour. BareBones is a 5 dancer company […]

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Bare Bones 2 ‘Improper’

They’re called Bare Bones because they dance on a bare stage and well………… the dancers do have bones in their body! (not sure that’s the real reason for the name but get on with it! Ed!) Our video feature brings you three exclusive clips from the company’s recent tour. BareBones is a 5 dancer company […]

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Phoenix ‘Planted Seeds’

This work was originally created in 1998 by Darshan Singh Bhuller on his own company Singh Productions. Planted Seeds returns in 2003 with the larger Phoenix Dance Theatre under the direction of Bhuller for a winter tour. Based on events during the Yugoslavian war, Planted Seeds is an often disturbing look at the very human […]

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Motionhouse ‘Volatile’

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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Erna Omarsdottir ‘IBM 401’

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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Impulstanz 2003

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 […]

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S4[one] RASA

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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SSCD 2003

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 […]

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The Flex

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 […]

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Making Statements ‘Debut’

Following on from out interview with the group of 5 girls we now bring you exclusive video footage from their first performance in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. The company are; Josie Lucas, Tertia Underhill, Imogen Bostock, Kellie Wilson and Sarah Morgan. The Making Statements company is the second outing for an experimental company […]