We return from our extended hiatus to find the wide world of dance in turmoil thanks to a pandemic and an established dance company reduced to ashes by a spectacular “self-own” worthy of only the very worst super villains. Rosie Kay Dance Company (RKDC), an Arts Council England “National Portfolio Organisation” (NPO) in receipt of […]
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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 […]
Religion, now there’s a subject folks can have a level headed discussion about over tea and biscuits no matter where you are or who you happen to be talking to. Right? With ‘There is Hope” Rosie Kay, dance maker, has taken the subject by the throat and given it a good shake with a new […]
Something a little unusual here in that we first filmed ‘Double Points K’ back in 2008 but at the time we didn’t do any interviews. So we thought let’s go back and do some profiles on the company this time out. The double bill itself also features the work ‘Asylum’ which has also been re-cast […]
Now we could start of this feature with a withering reference to Edwin Starr’s song “War [What Is It Good For?]” but since pretty much nobody will know what we’re on about let’s move on shall we! ‘Five Soldiers’ is the latest work from Rosie Kay Dance Company. The piece takes a long hard look […]
For those of you that don’t know a ‘Supernova’ occurs when stars (the planetary objects not those losers from American Idol) explode as they collapse in on themselves because they’ve used up all their fuel and there’s nothing left but to go BANG! What has that got to do with this piece of dance making […]
Hear this, because we’re bringing you our first video feature from the recently completed International Dance Festival Birmingham which folded up its collective tents over the weekend. Rosie Kay Dance Company have followed a slightly unusual path to creating this work. ‘Double Points: K’ takes it’s inspiration from another piece of work by Dutch dance […]