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We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

Do you remember Richard Alston Dance Company? For those not in the know the company existed for 25 years under the leadership of its titular director Richard Alston, a dance maker of note, according to some, and crafter of 50 dance works that toured the world, dazzling audiences with a great deal of Wafting About™. […]

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There is no Spoon!

On December 22nd 2014, we, here in TheLab™ published a piece detailing the “monstrous” cost of a newly announced arts building that was allocated funding to the tune of £78Million (with a total projected budget of £110Million) by the UK’s central government. The chaos, confusion, incompetence, and general lack of professionalism in that announcement from […]

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Northern Connections 2022

It has been a long time since our last full video feature but we return triumphantly with three new dance makers looking to make their mark on the wide world of dance. John-William Watson, Chandenie Gobardhan and Jake Evans presented three works in progress for Northern Connections a launch platform, if you will allow us, […]

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The Curious Incident of the Choreographer in the Night

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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Websites are Hard

Now, when we say that “websites are hard” we don’t mean they go out looking for trouble at the local pub and engage in some bare knuckle brawling in a conveniently atmospheric alleyway in downtown wherever. What we, here in TheLab™, do mean is that having spent a considerable amount of time porting Article19 over […]