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Retina Dance Company 'Layers of Skin'

2012-02-06T13:28:45Z

Back in November we brought you a preview of the new Retina work 'Layers of Skin' sans live music, costumes and proper lighting. On a cold January day we ventured south to catch the show as it was intended to be seen.

Company Chameleon 'Gameshow'

2012-01-30T17:00:32Z

Manchester based Company Chameleon have been working and touring for years now but just recently they became one of three newly anointed "National Portfolio Organisations" for dance by the big bad ACE.

bgroup 'The Lessening of Difference'

2011-12-14T14:09:15Z

Choreographer Ben Wright's company bgroup have been quietly moving their way around the dance world for a few years now, creating and touring intricately crafted pieces of dance theatre for all the world to see.

Retina Dance Company 'Layers of Skin' [Preview]

2011-11-23T12:57:32Z

Retina Dance Company are back on tour in the wide and wacky world of dance with six dancers, a live band (sometimes) and and ever changing ensemble of community and local professional dancers in their brand new work 'Layers of Skin'

Parlor Dance 'Step Forward'

2011-11-23T12:56:49Z

Almost a year to the day since we brought you another site specific work from the stable of dance maker Helen Parlor. Now she's back along with three dancers this time with a work inspired by the science of movement.

Coda Oslo International Dance Festival

2011-10-27T10:50:28Z

Video highlights from the 2011 festival held every two years in the Norwegian capital. We have interviews and performance footage from Bathseva, CarteBlanche, Ballet Preljocaj, Ervi Siren and many more. All in HD, all for you, our dear readers.

Peggy Jarrall Kaplan

2011-10-21T14:55:40Z

Peggy Jarrell Kapplan, a New York based photographer, has been taking portraits of dance makers since the 1970's. From Trish Brown to William Forsythe there is barely a choreographer she has not captured on her (film based) camera.

Carte Blanche 'Corps De Walk'

2011-10-21T11:39:10Z

The national dance company of Norway was once again in attendance att eh Coda dance festival in Oslo for 2011. This year brings a very unusual work from the stable of Israeli dance maker Sharon Eyal.

Ervi Siren 'Viita'

2011-10-20T11:40:09Z

At the last Coda festival in 2009 one of the stand out performances was from the Finnish dance maker and dancer Terro Saarinen and this year this is no different. Mr Saarinen isn't back but Ervi Sirén is along with her all female company with the work 'VIITA'. This is a pure dance piece with just a hint of backstory.

Batsheva 'Horra'

2011-10-17T14:52:03Z

Back in the day Ohad Naharin was responsible for creating one of our favourite pieces of dance, that piece of dance being 'Axioma 7' performed by Rambert when Christopher Bruce was in charge.

Ballet Preljocaj 'Empty Moves [Parts I&II]'

2011-10-12T11:41:20Z

Some, if not most of you, may never have been subjected to an hour long piece by infamous composer John Cage, he of the Merce Cunningham collaboration.

Ace Dance and Music 'ICE'

2011-10-03T21:35:48Z

Ace Dance and Music are back on tour with their bran 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.

2Faced Dance Company 'In The Dust'

2011-09-08T14:16:02Z

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.

Scottish Dance Theatre 'Matters of the Heart'

2011-08-30T14:45:09Z

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.

Balbir Singh Dance Company 'Decreasing Infinity'

2011-08-22T12:08:01Z

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.