64 people have been taken to hospital this past Monday suffering from a variety of maladies ranging from catatonia to severe stroke following a mass reading of the latest press release from The Place concerning The Place Prize®™. Those in attendance who escaped uninjured told disturbing tales of self harm, wailing, gnashing of teeth and […]
It occurs to us, here in TheLab™, that despite the information overload in todays world of super cell phones, laptops, iJesus devices and so much other nonsense that dance companies don’t talk about each other very much. Glancing through Twitter feeds, Facebook updates, websites, mail shots, emails and so on we notice a lot of […]
For a slight change of pace we bring you some images from this past April of Candoco Dance Company’s premiere of their new touring production ‘Renditions’. Renditions, featuring work from Emanual Gat, Wendy Houstoun and Sarah Michelson will be back on the road in September, check their website for complete details. Full captions and credits […]
Social Media, depending on your point of view, is either marketing heaven, free and easy to use, or a hellish wasteland of crap that is free and easy to annoy the hell out of people with. If companies play the game properly you can get some useful tidbits of information, perhaps even engage in a […]
Regular readers of Article19 will know that we, here in TheLab™, have little time for the AD of Sadler’s Wells Theatre Alistair Spalding. We have our reasons, do some digging to find out why. That said the man came good when confronted with some journalistic jackassery from Gavin Esler on the BBC news programme Newsnight […]
A letter sent by Arts Council England (ACE) to their client list of Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) tells those organisations to make preparation for cuts to their annual budgets of 10%. The letter, signed by ACE’s Chief Exec Alan Davey, is keen to point out that no numbers have yet been confirmed but states; “Given […]
It’s time to put the horseshoes in the boxing gloves and start swinging because the politicians are coming after the arts and pretty much everything else in christendom. In our editorial ‘Get Off the Floor’ we pointed out that should the worst come to the worst then you will have to fight back and there […]
On the funding ladder of life, just one rung above Arts Council England (ACE), is yet another acronym. the DCMS, The Department for Culture Media and Sport. Although they recently added the Olympics in there somewhere the civil service appears not to have gotten the memo because they still call it the DCMS. But we […]
Normally when an arts organisation is putting out press releases about their revolutionary new thing they really do love it when you get in touch and ask them for an interview. It gives them a chance to answer a lot of soft soap questions in a vain attempt to convince an unimpressed world that they’re […]
Arts Council England CEO Alan “Wavey” Davey has been sounding off in the papers, well, The Stage, but still, about the new UK coalition government and their saber rattling about cuts to the arts, “sharing the pain”, and so much other nonsense. Wavey has called for people to make “rational” arguments about why funding the […]