Tees Valley Dance
Heros and Zeroes || Thursday, 19 May, 2005
Tees Valley Dance: The dance/education company based in the North of England who not only managed to post their own audition information to our board but had the common sense and the ambition to have 4 (count ‘em) separate auditions across the UK and Europe to open themselves up to as wide a range of dancers as possible. Such ambition from a small-scale ‘regional’ company is worthy of mention.
Ascendance: For also posting their own audition information to our message board. Now its not that we mind posting audition information for our ever-loyal readers but it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy when the good folks in dance do it for themselves. Power to the people and all that!
Jasmin Vardimon: For speaking out against the complete lack of progressive thinking in the dance film making industry (such as it is) in the UK which pointedly refuses to fund the filming of ‘adaptations’ of stage work to screen work. Thanks to this, mostly ACE fuelled policy, we can look forward to an ever increasing number of banal ‘’dance film’ productions over the coming year, allegedly!
DV8: For having the courage to cancel their premiere of the new work ‘Just for Show’ when one of their dancers became sick. The UK premiere may well be delayed but it’s good to see a dance company looking out for its dancers and not treating them like robots who can simply be replaced or edited out of the show if need be!
Akram Khan Company: For holding their one and only audition in Brussels for no particular reason and then completely making up the reasons for doing so. Nobody was convinced by the “cheaper to travel to Belgium” argument, not even for a minute which was reported in our news story late last week.
Farooq Chaudhry: The aforementioned company’s ‘producer’ who wrote a very long email to our Communications bod (Michelle) demanding that the news story mentioned above be removed immediately. Stating what we had written could be considered ‘libel in some circles’ Mr. Chaudhry was presumably talking about the Magic Circle™ and I for one would pay money to see him pull a rabbit out of a hat!
George Galloway: For two of his song and dance numbers in front of the cameras. First of all with Jeremy Paxman on election night where he behaved like a complete moron and refused to answer even the most basic of questions and then in front of the US Senate where once again he acted like an imbecile. Mr Galloway is nothing more than an opportunistic attention seeker who, lest we forget, has met with Sadam Hussein twice for no apparent reason! Just what you want in your lawmakers!
Strictly Dance Fever and the BBC: Not only did they parade one of the injured ‘dancers’ in front of the cameras last Saturday for nothing more than soporific entertainment value they also made him put on his costume as if to emphasise the point that he longed to be on the stage where he could be making a complete arse of himself!
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