It is not too often that we revisit a contemporary dance work for re-featuring but there is a trend, sort of, with contemporary dance companies bringing older works back for a second round of touring in the wider world of dance. ‘Park’ from Jasmin Vardimon is one such work having previously bowed in 2005 the […]
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New dance company on the block time with Rutherford Dance Company and their new piece ‘Never Going Home Again’ created by the titular artistic director Adam Rutherford a long time professional dancer and rehearsal director with 2Faced Dance Company among others. ‘Never Going Home Again’ takes a look at the increasingly anarchic situation in Russia […]
We first featured ‘5 Soldiers’ from Rosie Kay Dance Company almost five years ago during its inaugural tour in 2010. Unusually for a contemporary dance work it’s still touring, with an all new cast, and making people think about all the wars we keep fighting. The piece itself tells the story of a group of […]
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EDge 2015 ‘Interview Feature’
It’s EDge time again as the post graduate company from the London Contemporary Dance School take to the road with four new works from dance makers Siobhan Davies, Eleesha Drennan, Robert Clark and Itamar Serussi. Combine those four with the 12 superb dancers from the company and you have a rich mix of creative work […]
In 2013 Article19 spent a day at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds filming and speaking with a number of students and faculty about the work they do at the school preparing for a life in the wide world of dance. This time out we returned to spend a day with the first […]
Israeli dance maker Hagit Yakira has been creating work with her company since 2007. Based in the UK she has created seven works for the company along with numerous commissions for other companies and youth groups in this country and overseas. The current touring work is ‘In The Middle With You’ a piece for five […]
Here in TheLab™ we have been covering the exploits of Verve, the post graduate company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, since 2007. Over the years they have consistently produced a high standard of dancer and creative work. For the 2015 season there are 4 new works from Kerry Nicholls ‘Entwined’, Theo Clikard ‘We […]
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Verve 2015 Interview Feature
Here in TheLab™ we have been covering the exploits of Verve, the post graduate company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, since 2007. Over the years they have consistently produced a high standard of dancer and creative work. For the 2015 season there are 4 new works from Kerry Nicholls ‘Entwined’, Theo Clikard ‘We […]
Renaud Wiser, a prolific dancer who has performed with Geneva Ballet, the Ballet National de Marseille, The Gothenburg Ballet and Rambert Dance Company to name just a few, is now turning his hand to the wide world of choreography with ‘Who Killed Bambi?’, his second full length work. The work takes its inspiration from the […]
Touring for dance companies over the last few years has an increasingly difficult practice thanks to non sensical funding cuts and certain venues being less than cooperative when it comes to programming touring companies. The opportunity to watch dance live north of Manchester would be almost non-existent but for a small venue located inside one […]