The latest work for seven dancers by choreographer Stephanie Thiersch and media artist Angela Melitopoulos focuses on mimicry: imitating, adapting to a structure, disguising, becoming invisible, turning up and stepping out of line. Dancers: Viviana Escalé, Inés Hernandez, Mu-Yi Kuo, I-Fen Lin, Victor Launay, Nicolas Robillard, Valenti Rocamora-Tora. This performance was recorded at the Coda […]
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Trio A consists of a 5-minute sequence of movement that was initially presented as The Mind is a Muscle, Part I (1966) at Judson Church. There it was performed by Yvonne Rainer, David Gordon and Steve Paxton simultaneously but not in unison. Since then the dance has taken on myriad forms, from execution by a […]
Ace Dance and Music are back on tour with their brand new, co-created work ‘ICE’, performed for the very first time this past Saturday in a very sunny Leeds. For this season the company have brought in Japanese dance maker Akiko Kitamura to collaborate with the company’s AD Gail Parmell. What emerges is an eclectic […]
At no point in this intro will we use the phrases “high octane”, “high powered”, “visceral” or “Keyser Söze”…… not that we would use the last one anyway but still. We, here in the TheLab™ and, probably, 2Faced Dance Company are a bit tired of such phrases. So, the Hereford based company took to the […]
At no point in this intro will we use the phrases “high octane”, “high powered”, “visceral” or “Keyser Söze”…… not that we would use the last one anyway but still. We, here in the TheLab™ and, probably, 2Faced Dance Company are a bit tired of such phrases. So, the Hereford based company took to the […]
OK kids, Scottish Dance Theatre made their regular pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with an eclectic triple bill of work wrapped in the title ‘Matters of the Heart. What you may not know about the company from the land of tartan, haggis and the Loch Ness Monster (it’s real you know! Ed!) […]
Time for a strange mix of styles both dance and music wise with Balbir Singh Dance Company and their work ‘Decreasing Infinity’. We caught up with them at the Fringe in Edinburgh. The mix of styles we have on show are contemporary dance and kathak for the movement and the music comes from the tabla […]
Although Jack Webb may be new to Article19 in terms of video features he’s certainly not new to Article19 itself, having been a blogger here for quite some time. No writing this time however just dance making and performing in Mr Webb’s new solo ‘Beta Wave Transport’ specially commissioned by DanceBase in Edinburgh and Dance […]
Thomas Small has been creating dance work now for more than a decade with his company Smallpetitklein based in Dundee in the North of Scotland. ‘Falling Man’ marks their first excursion into the crowded world of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and draws its inspiration from an infamous photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew […]
Coming to Article19 for the first time with the rather oddly titled ‘Bagofti’ (the reason for the name is explained in the interview) is dance maker Gary Clarke. Having performed with many dance companies across the UK and Europe as well as choreographing work for a diverse range of groups Mr Clarke comes to the […]