Article19 V-XI : The News:

Ahead of the Curve Starting on March 2nd the National Dance Network, which used to be ANDA, will kick start a national tour of new dance companies called 'Dance 3'. Published Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 at 03:56
Diaghilev Booted from BDE If Javier Du Frutos was annoyed that his work was kicked from BBC4 for being universally offensive to all mankind then his partners in crime, Wayne McGregor, Russell Maliphant and the other guy or going to be spitting teeth because... Published Wednesday, 6 January, 2010 at 06:23
"The" Dance House The weekend of October 9th saw the opening of the latest in a long line of white elephants expensive new dance facilities with the ribbon cutting (and they really did cut a ribbon) on the £8.9million Jerwood Dance Centre in... Published Tuesday, 20 October, 2009 at 01:58
Dance City Adrift File this one under "making a drama out of a mundane non story". Dance City, one of the UK's National Dance Agencies (NDA), based in Newcastle upon Tyne is now sans one Artistic Director and CEO (Chief Executive Officer) following... Published Tuesday, 1 September, 2009 at 01:51
Old Fish New Fish How much sense this particular news bite makes will really depend on how old you are. DV8 Physical Theatre, the long running dance company helmed by Australian Lloyd Newson, will be going somewhere they have never gone before. Back in... Published Sunday, 16 August, 2009 at 12:42
BDE 2010: Confusion Clarified The programming process for the up and coming British Dance Edition 2010, hosted by DanceXchange in Birmingham, appears to be causing some confusion and/or consternation among applicants to the biennial festival. Unlike other dance festivals BDE serves as a promotional... Published Monday, 10 August, 2009 at 01:28
Merce Cunningham Dies at 90 The New York Times is reporting that dance maker Merce Cunningham died this past Sunday at 90 years of age at his home in Manhattan, New York. Mr Cunningham was probably one of the best known choreographers in the world... Published Monday, 27 July, 2009 at 04:10
PUSH Continuing our search for the bold and the new we find All Play, creators of last years 'It's Rude To Point', back with the even more ambitious 'Push'. The company's practical reasoning is one of portability. They create work... Published Monday, 6 July, 2009 at 03:17
Pina Bausch Dies at 68 The Guardian is reporting that German choreographer Pina Bausch has died today aged 68 news confirmed by Tanztheater Wuppertal's official website. Ms Bausch was diagnosed with cancer just 5 days ago. During a choreographic career spanning more than 40 years,... Published Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 at 04:00
News Round Up June 09 A few stories from the latest and greatest press releases that have hit our inbox over the last few days/weeks. Impulstanz. The festival that just will not quit is back again kicking off on July 19 for a month (runs... Published Wednesday, 10 June, 2009 at 03:27
Scattered Motionhouse Dance Theatre have been under the covers now for more than 18 months. Although the company have been creating and touring smaller works to various outdoor venues around the the UK and Europe. 2009 sees their return to... Published Tuesday, 9 June, 2009 at 02:42
Those Bloggers Article19's ranks in the blogs have now grown to five (count 'em) with the latest addition of Carlos Pons a dance student at the Conservatoire of Dance in Madrid, Spain. Ever since Catherine Bell blogged from the musty halls of... Published Friday, 15 May, 2009 at 02:16
ACE Loses £4 Million If they had lost it down the back of the sofa then that might have been funny but no. ACE lost £4 Million (GBP) following the release of the Government's annual budget yesterday in the House of Commons. The funding... Published Thursday, 23 April, 2009 at 02:06
Wanna See Something Crazy? No doubt about it Wiliam Forsythe, American dance maker extraordinaire, is a clever clogs. You hear him speak you'll either be massively inspired or your brain will melt. The choice is yours so either do some reading or prepare... Published Thursday, 2 April, 2009 at 02:24
BDE 2010 Birmingham We have to admit that we've known, here in TheLab™, that British Dance Edition 2010 would be hosted by DanceXchange in Birmingham for a while now but they have officially let the cat out of the bag with a... Published Tuesday, 17 March, 2009 at 02:24
ACE We Can Rebuild You! Arts Council England (ACE) has announced proposals to re-structure the organisation and, in the process, reduce their operating costs by approximately £6.5Million (GBP) per year, the savings, according to the proposals, will be put back into arts projects. A key... Published Wednesday, 4 March, 2009 at 01:15
Merce in Colour (not color!) In January last year the Imp kicked off at the New York Times about "Monday's with Merce" (a title that has not gotten better with age). They were acting like internet video was a new thing, yada yada. Well,... Published Thursday, 12 February, 2009 at 03:19
Tongue Tied 09 Whatever you look at it Zimbabwe, the country, is a mess, an enormous mess that's going to take several decades to fix, if it can be fixed at all. Amongst all the misery and depressing news it's easy to... Published Thursday, 5 February, 2009 at 04:50
Dance Awards Won, Who Cares? The Critics' Circle National Dance Awards were announced in the middle of the afternoon a few days ago, or it could have been weeks we're not really sure, and while we're on the subject the Critics Circle is nowhere... Published Thursday, 29 January, 2009 at 04:08
Comment Is Indeed Free! After a long hiatus from Article19 we have decided to bring commenting back to certain parts of the site so you, our dear readers, will have a much easier time telling us what you think. Commenting is available on all... Published Monday, 15 December, 2008 at 11:44
News Roundup Our latest roundup brings news from Sydney Dance Company, Random Dance (yikes!), Australian Dance Theatre and, of all places, Bournemouth! Rafael to Sydney Sydney Dance Theatre has appointed a new Artistic Director in the shape of Rafael Bonachela. The... Published Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 at 01:19
Another New Dance Building The Stage is reporting that Northern Ballet Theatre and Phoenix Dance Theatre have been given the go ahead to build a brand new "state of the art" (whatever that means!) dance facility in Leeds City Centre. Aside from the usual... Published Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 at 04:50
Dance East and the Women The Rural Retreats programme created by Dance East, one of the UK's National Dance Agencies (NDA), back in 2003 has been been looked upon with a certain amount of confusion by those in the contemporary dance world struggling to... Published Friday, 17 October, 2008 at 04:10
News Roundup Let's take a quick sojourn through the news snippets we have building up in the corner gathering a bit of dust shall we! Dance Theatre Ireland Goes Korean The company based in Dun Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland often suffer... Published Monday, 13 October, 2008 at 11:05
Forbidden Remembered Here in TheLab™ it is cold, very cold, even the giant rats are complaining about the lack of heat. Since it costs an arm and a leg, literally, to turn on the wood burning stove we shall warm ourselves with... Published Sunday, 5 October, 2008 at 08:19
Place Prize Pantomime It's the type of gaffe that, were this the political arena, would almost certainly spell doom for the candidate who said it. John Ashford, taking to the stage to announce the winner of the competition on Saturday night, called the... Published Monday, 29 September, 2008 at 04:25
Dance Video iPod Style Last week we, here in TheLab™, started to role out Article19's video library on an iTunes podcast channel so you can take our video features wherever you go. The videos carried via iTunes are the same ones you can... Published Monday, 29 September, 2008 at 03:51
De Frutos, Jump or Pushed? Phoenix Dance Theatre have announced that Artistic Director Javier De Frutos is leaving the company after just two years in the job. In a statement reminiscent of a fallen politician who is leaving public life to "spend more time with... Published Tuesday, 23 September, 2008 at 12:01
Mob Culture If you're looking for the ultimate contact improvisation/flash mob experience then the wacky world of dance might just have the answer for you. Assuming you are in London on October 11th at 1pm and can make your way to Tate... Published Wednesday, 17 September, 2008 at 02:26
Twitter SMS Backtrack Twitter, the service Article19 has been using to send SMS updates for auditions, have turned off that particular feature from their service. In explaining their decision Twitter stated that the cost of sending SMS messages to phone numbers in the... Published Wednesday, 27 August, 2008 at 05:52
Ashford Aerowaves Goodbye! John Ashford, the resident snowy haired AD of The Place in London, is moving on to pastures new after 20 years helming the "[place] for world class dance", if you believe the hype that is. Mr Ashford will be switching... Published Monday, 11 August, 2008 at 01:18
Jasmin Yesterday During the summer things are always a bit quiet for dance. Apart from the occasional outdoor festival and large scale outdoor performance the dance companies are usually hunkered down in their studios making up new stuff for the coming... Published Wednesday, 6 August, 2008 at 03:24
Verve Take A Bow Graduate Dance Company Verve, based at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) in Leeds, have picked up an award in Holland for "Best International Production" following their performance at the 'ITs' festival in Amsterdam. The famously prickly Gurmit Hukam,... Published Tuesday, 29 July, 2008 at 12:41
DanceUK Takes Steps DanceUK, the dance lobbying group, has taken a short step toward establishing 'The Dancers Health Pilot Scheme' with an £80,000 donation from the Jerwood Foundation in London. The pilot project will provide 100 dancers with comprehensive health insurance as well... Published Thursday, 17 July, 2008 at 02:57
Forbidden Dance It would appear that, for now, festival season is over for dance and we can settle down and enjoy the coming summer which, thanks to global warming, should actually feel like summer, in the UK at least! So it would... Published Sunday, 8 June, 2008 at 10:47
Impulse Power OK, this is absolutely, and with no exceptions, the last festival that we are going to write about this year. Is that clear? Good, then let's move on because Impulstanz 2008 is on the horizon and those crazy kids... Published Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 at 11:19
On A Mission If you're planning a dance festival can we ask one thing of you? Please leave it until the end of the year to launch the thing because if any more dance festivals get under way in the next few... Published Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 at 05:06
Dancing Planet The UK is becoming increasingly full of dance festivals. Just this year we have had, Resolution, BDE 08, and Spring Loaded. Still to come is the International Dance Festival Birmingham, The Big Mission and Dance Umbrella. Not to mention to... Published Sunday, 6 April, 2008 at 06:05
Septic Frogs Twenty dance makers, count 'em, apparently with too much time on their hands, have been selected to take part in the dance competition that never ends, The Place Prize. The eventual winner of this particular competition has about as much... Published Friday, 4 April, 2008 at 12:48
Dangerous Dance The up and coming dance festival in Birmingham, suitably titled the International Dance Festival Birmingham, will feature a couple of performances where the creators appear to have taken leave of their senses. First up we have those crazy kids from... Published Wednesday, 26 March, 2008 at 02:06
ACE Litigation Arts Council England's troubles are beginning to multiply as another organisation prepares to take possible legal action over the funding monoliths decision to remove their annual subsidy. The Waterman's venue in London is claiming that ACE's funding decisions were "flawed... Published Wednesday, 26 March, 2008 at 01:31
What's Going On Here? The more astute among you, and even those half asleep, will have noticed that Article19 has changed somewhat over the last week or so into its new clothes. Our latest re-design is version number 9 in our short and somewhat... Published Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 at 03:50
ACE Investigated, Denies Being Useless! The Stage newspaper is reporting that Arts Council England (ACE) is to be formally investigated over the perceived bungling of their recent funding review. Baroness Genista McIntosh (stop laughing at the back), a member of the UK's House of Lords,... Published Friday, 14 March, 2008 at 02:19
The Bonnies As annual awards go the Bonnie Bird Awards are not up there with the Oscars or even the thoroughly pointless Critics Circle Awards but they do at least serve some practical purpose for the recipients. This time out the winners... Published Sunday, 17 February, 2008 at 11:00
Yawwwwwwwnnnnn............. The Critics Circle (don't call them the magic circle because they get really mad) have announced their latest slew of awards for this year and the results are full of surprises. You're not buying that are you? Didn't think... Published Wednesday, 23 January, 2008 at 10:59
Resolution Go For 08 If you're looking to kick off the new year with some dance making from the freshest dance makers the world has to offer then look no further than Resolution 08 which gets underway tomorrow in London. For the next two... Published Wednesday, 2 January, 2008 at 03:34
Three Named, Two Confirmed Article19 has confirmed that Chisenhale Dance Space in London and Anjali Dance Company based in Oxfordshire will lose their Arts Council England (ACE) funding next year if their respective appeals against the decision are unsuccessful. Chisenhale Dance Space have provided... Published Friday, 21 December, 2007 at 02:36
Top Secret No More! DanceXchange have revealed more details about their super secret dance festival taking place next year in Birmingham. Sadly it's not called 'Project Icarus' or 'The Prometheus Event', thereby losing some of its James Bond like cachet! Instead they have... Published Thursday, 29 November, 2007 at 01:11
Place Prize 08, No, Really! 2008 is shaping up to be the year of the big event. British Dance Edition 2008, Big Mission 2008, The Olympics, Euro 2008 (that's a football thing) and some top secret dance festival in Birmingham hosted by DanceXchange. Sneaking in... Published Tuesday, 27 November, 2007 at 01:40
BDE Participants Announced Merseyside Dance Initiative has announced the companies that will be taking part in British Dance Edition 2008 (BDE) in Liverpool. The festival will feature 36 companies, some new some old, from across the UK in the festival aimed at... Published Friday, 23 November, 2007 at 12:55
South East Dance Festival Dance Festivals, you don't see one for ages then, for reasons past understanding, two come along at once and run on exactly the same dates! The dates are not just close, they are exactly the same. The South East Dance... Published Monday, 19 November, 2007 at 03:13
London Dance Film Festival Brace yourselves because somebody, somewhere thinks it's a good idea to run another dance film festival and ask you to pay money for the privilege of seeing said films. It is with much trepidation that we announce the arrival... Published Monday, 19 November, 2007 at 02:36
Dance Awards Are Cool! The National Dance Awards (NDA), run by The Critics Circle (as always, not to be confused with the Magic Circle), are back for another year of predictable gift giving in the name of.......... well, we're not really sure what the... Published Tuesday, 13 November, 2007 at 02:56
Dance Theatre Ireland 'Slow Down' Not literally of course but the creative's of Dun Laoghaire in Ireland have put together a new piece and the premiere of that work is on November 7th in the only country in the world that matches Scotland for charm!... Published Monday, 5 November, 2007 at 03:24
ACE Plots The Timeline Arts Council England (ACE) has revealed its plans for moving forward following the recent announcement by Central Government that funding for the arts quango will receive a modest increase following months of speculation that funds would be cut. As... Published Wednesday, 17 October, 2007 at 11:25
No Spending Cuts The Treasury has confirmed that there will be no cuts made to funding of the Department for Culture Media and Sport, the government department that provides funding to Arts Council England, for the next few years at least. Instead there... Published Wednesday, 10 October, 2007 at 04:09
Moving Image Prizes Do you work in dance? Are you looking to win some money? Are those lottery numbers just not working out for you? Do you want to meet like minded single people in your area? (I think that's from your own... Published Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 at 12:25
Dance Umbrella 07 In todays wide world of dance it appears that not a month goes by without yet another festival hitting the streets attempting to wow us with its wares. Because it's winter it must be time for Dance Umbrella again and... Published Sunday, 16 September, 2007 at 07:58
Wired New Studio Rehearsal spaces are hard to come by, affordable ones are even harder to come by so it's always good news when a new one is open for business. Wired Aerial Theatre, based in Liverpool, will be showcasing their new facility... Published Sunday, 16 September, 2007 at 07:50
Petition Hits 25,000 The petition started a few months ago to try and persuade the government that spending billions on the Olympics in London might not be a good idea after all has hit the 25,000 signature mark. With just a few days... Published Monday, 10 September, 2007 at 01:52
Winter Warming Summer, such as it is, is almost over, if in fact it ever got started. What this means is; dance companies will be stirring from their slumber and begin touring once again and give us all, here in TheLab™... Published Thursday, 30 August, 2007 at 03:03
Tanja Liedtke Dies Following A Traffic Accident Dancer, choreographer and the newly appointed Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company, Tanja Liedtke (30) was killed this past Friday in Sydney Australia after she was hit by a truck in the early hours of the morning. 'The Australian' newspaper... Published Sunday, 19 August, 2007 at 08:10
Dance Films Wanted South East Dance, one of England's National Dance Agencies, is looking for new dance films for their 'Dance For Camera' Festival in Brighton from 30th November until December 2nd. There are only two restrictions being placed on the films you... Published Sunday, 5 August, 2007 at 01:38
Tees Valley Blood Lust For the longest time we have yearned for a contemporary dance company to create a dance piece about Vampires and finally, finally a company has made our collective dreams come true. Tees Valley Dance (TVD) have created 'Vampires' over... Published Saturday, 4 August, 2007 at 01:10
On The Fringe of Madness The world's largest arts festival is once again ready for kick off in the wonderful city of Edinburgh (our editor is Scottish so excuse the rhetoric) from August 5th -27th for 22 days of non stop "art". The Fringe... Published Thursday, 2 August, 2007 at 04:37
Google Kicked To The Kerb Following a recent Panorama programme on the BBC concerning the uploading of violent video material to YouTube, owned by Google, Article19 has removed all Google advertising from this website. The show focused on video material featuring violent attacks on... Published Tuesday, 31 July, 2007 at 12:48
Making Resolutions If you're a dance maker and have £333 + VAT (17.5%) laying around the place then it may be a good idea to make an application to Resolution, The Place's annual dance jamboree held once a year in January. Applications... Published Monday, 23 July, 2007 at 10:03
Dancer Arrested for Drug Possesion Nilas Martins a 40 year old principal dancer with New York City Ballet was arrested on Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, New York for possession of cocaine. The company are in Saratoga Springs to present their brand new production of Romeo... Published Saturday, 7 July, 2007 at 06:36
New Culture Minister, Same Story? Following the Coup d'état resignation of Tony Blair as the Prime Minister and his subsequent replacement by Gordon Brown there was a litle bit of reshuffling going with ministers for various departments coming and going. Out on her ear is... Published Wednesday, 4 July, 2007 at 02:01
Petition Shoots for 25,000 The online petition demanding the UK Government not redirect money from the arts, heritage and grass roots sport to fund the London Olympics is heading toward 25,000 signatures at the time of writing. According to the online petition website it... Published Wednesday, 27 June, 2007 at 03:07
Can ACE Count? Arts Council England's press release justifying the cuts to Grants For The Arts by 35% (or £29million) contains an interesting mix of apparent contradictions brought about by figures released by Arts Council England themselves. The press release states that part... Published Wednesday, 13 June, 2007 at 01:12
ACE Oversight Following Arts Council England's (ACE) refusal to supply information requested under the Freedom of Information Act, the information concerned evaluation reports of National Dance Agencies in England, Article19 had a rather curious back and forth with the funding giant concerning... Published Friday, 8 June, 2007 at 10:50
ACE Blocks NDA Information Request Arts Council England (ACE) has denied all requests made by Article19 under the Freedom of Information Act for yearly assessment reports of all National Dance Agencies in England (NDA's). In particulcar Article19 was requesting the final evaluation by ACE... Published Tuesday, 5 June, 2007 at 11:11
Moves 07 Film Festival If you're feeling a bit lacking in inspiration and support with your dance film making then Moves07 would like to help you out with a festival of events starting next week in Manchester. Running from June 12 to June 17... Published Monday, 4 June, 2007 at 01:47
Impulstanz 2007 Summer is fast approaching, dance companies are going to sleep for the duration and most theatre's will usually shut down for a bit to shoo the bats out of the belfry (come again? Ed!) and give the carpets a... Published Sunday, 3 June, 2007 at 11:18
Low Light Taking photographs of dance is hard, really hard, especially if you want to do it well. You can't use flash, you're working in low light most of the time and you're forever bumping into things in the dark. Gérard Uféras,... Published Thursday, 24 May, 2007 at 12:14
Jumble Sale, Ballet Style Scottish Ballet has decided that instead of trying to sell their dancers they will instead sell lot's of old costumes from past productions. The national ballet company of Scotland became embroiled in a minor controversy a few months back when... Published Thursday, 17 May, 2007 at 12:47
Sign the Petition Save the Arts? You may well be aware of the cuts being made to arts funding across the country (in England thus far) made by Arts Council England and further cuts are on the way all in the name of the Olympics in... Published Friday, 4 May, 2007 at 10:56
Transitions on Tour If you're looking for some new dance performed by some of the UK's newest contemporary dance professionals then look no further than the premiere of Transitions Dance Company at Laban in London on Thursday, May 2nd. Transitions is the... Published Thursday, 19 April, 2007 at 02:37
ACE Cuts Funding by 35% The Stage is reporting that Arts Council England has announced a 35% cut in Grants for the Arts funding for the current financial year dropping the amount available from £83million GBP to £54million GBP for 2007/2008. Grants for the Arts... Published Wednesday, 4 April, 2007 at 09:16
Making a Movie, Again! Channel 4 Television have announced a partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the Australian Council for the Arts and MJW Productions, a UK based television production company to commission some new dance films. Applying could not be easier, well... Published Wednesday, 28 March, 2007 at 03:14
The Making Of Normally when you are watching a documentary on the television everything has already happened and the conclusion is probably already known to the masses. New York City Ballet is having a crack at avoiding that by running an online... Published Monday, 26 March, 2007 at 04:47
Film Night in Brighton South East Dance, the National Dance Agency for the South East of England, will be hosting what they describe as a Screen Dance Artists’ Forum on March 22nd to give you a chance to chat with some dance film makers... Published Tuesday, 13 March, 2007 at 12:08
The Film Room Opens Article19 has launched The Film Room today a long term pilot project to host dance related video material in its own special place on this very website. You may have noticed the lack of new writing over the last... Published Monday, 26 February, 2007 at 10:18
Retina Launch New Website Retina Dance Company have gotten with the program and launched a superb new website loaded with high quality video material, useful information and they even have RSS feeds (our editor has just passed out!) The site utilises a 'blog' style... Published Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 at 10:49
ACE and Public Value Arts Council England (ACE) has launched what it describes as a "public value enquiry" to help shape the future of how the funding organisation works and, presumably, to shape future funding policy. Launched on November the 7th last year, the... Published Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 at 01:47
Scottish Ballet Defends Dancer Auctions Scottish Ballet have defended their decision to offer a "dinner date" with two of the company's dancers as part of a fund raising scheme. The auction, currently live on eBay, offers dinner for two with either female soloist, Joon... Published Monday, 12 February, 2007 at 02:32
BDE08 Open For Applications British Dance Edition, the bi-annual dance festival aimed at promoters, is now accepting applications from dance companies who may wish to take part and show their wares to an international group of promoters. Although not due to take place until... Published Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 at 01:04
Glen Tetley Dies at 80 Glen Tetley one of the first dance makers to bring modern work to traditional ballet companies in the 70's and 80's has died in Palm Beach, Florida this past Friday from melanoma (a form of skin cancer). Following training in... Published Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 at 06:38
National Dance Awards Announced The National Dance Awards (NDA) were announced today and unless you were from the Royal Ballet or your name is Wayne then you didn't stand much chance of winning anything. The only award that offers up any surprises is the... Published Thursday, 25 January, 2007 at 10:56
Vardimon, Phoenix Tread Boards First of all let us apologise for the dreadful cliche in the headline. We're sure it makes reference to woodworm infested theatres of old but it's early and we couldn't think of anything better. Anyway, Jasmin Vardimon Company will... Published Thursday, 18 January, 2007 at 08:32
On The Road The new year is kicking off with a lot of touring from companies old and new, well mostly old but there must be some new companies touring out there so if you're one of them let us know and... Published Tuesday, 9 January, 2007 at 12:47
ENB vs BNP Controversy continues to surround English National Ballet (ENB) dancer Simone Clarke and her membership of the far right political party the BNP (British National Party). Ms Clarke, a principal dancer with the ENB, has been a member of the party... Published Saturday, 6 January, 2007 at 01:50
Article19 is Five Aside from the fairly obvious jokes about Article19 being five years old - so what else is new (har, har) - we have reached an important milestone in our short but colourful history. The exact date we were born... Published Saturday, 9 December, 2006 at 04:58
Contemporary Fairy Story The fairytale world is not one that comes to contemporary dance very often but BalletLorent is looking the up the fantasy quota with 'Angelmoth' premiering on the 13th of December in Newcastle upon Tyne. Telling the story of 'Pippanouska'... Published Saturday, 9 December, 2006 at 01:23
HRH Wayne The Royal Ballet have announced that Wayne McGregor, the AD of Random Dance Company, will become a resident choreographer for the company based at the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London. Mr McGregor said in a press release from ROH:... Published Friday, 1 December, 2006 at 03:29
National Dance Awards The National Dance Awards are once again up for grabs and the only category that really matters is the one where you get to choose the winner. The Audience Award, won last year by Motionhouse, is voted for via text... Published Monday, 27 November, 2006 at 03:13
Get Your Vox On!! Recently launched 'social networking' web site Vox is the latest competitor in a crowded space dominated by the unrelentingly awful MySpace. Vox is a little bit different in that it is focused less on racking up large numbers of... Published Sunday, 26 November, 2006 at 12:38
Bonne Bird Winners Laban have announced the winners of the Bonnie Bird Choreography Awards for 2006 of which there is very little we can tell you that is of any practical use. The awards, which are very modest in nature, provide money to... Published Monday, 13 November, 2006 at 03:53
Anjali Youth on the TeeVee Next week Channel4 will broadcast four short - very short actually at only 3 minutes each - dance films as part of a series entitled '3 Minute Wonders'. This particular part of the series is for youth dance and one... Published Friday, 10 November, 2006 at 10:07
Big Sale of Protein Protein Dance Company are bringing their excellent and slightly chaotic show 'Big Sale' to the Robin Howard Dance Theatre in London starting tonight for a two week run. Such a long stint in one place is a little unusual,... Published Tuesday, 7 November, 2006 at 11:42
Almost There! The new design is rolling out nicely but it's just taking a little bit longer to get all the various bits and pieces converted. Article19 is fully operational, well mostly, and the remainder of the pages will be updated to... Published Monday, 6 November, 2006 at 03:11
Capture Comes Back The much maligned and often ignored Capture project is back for its fifth iteration and is accepting applications for awards up £20,000. The project provides funding for the creation of dance films (or dance on camera as they prefer to... Published Monday, 30 October, 2006 at 03:29
Exodus in Ireland Dance Theatre of Ireland are kicking off their new tour in County Dublin next month with a couple of new works by Robert Connor & Loretta Yurick - the company directors - and Charles Linehan. The company, now in... Published Wednesday, 18 October, 2006 at 12:50
Spreading the Wealth It would appear that the Place Prize is not the road to modest riches that some would imagine it to be. Nina Rajarani, this years winner who walked off with £29,000 in prize money, will just about 'break even'... Published Friday, 13 October, 2006 at 01:13
ACE Wants You, Again! Arts Council England North East is collaborating with the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative to find out more about where artists in the UK live and work. The online study is being launched to; "inform future discussions and work to support you... Published Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 at 04:17
Random To The USA Random Dance Company, everybody's favourite head twitchers, are making their way to the USA and Mexico throughout this month. The company will be performing 'Polar Sequences' and 'Ataxia' at various venues starting in New York on October 5-6 at... Published Monday, 2 October, 2006 at 03:40
Place Prize Victor Announced The Place Prize finally came to an end this past Saturday when Nina Rajarani was announced as the winner by the panel of judges. Ms Rajarani takes the £25,000 prize, which she can spend on anything she likes. Her company... Published Monday, 2 October, 2006 at 03:06
ACE Cannot Recommend Pay Levels Arts Council England (ACE) has clarified its position with regard to recommending pay levels for artists when companies apply for funding, they have no legal basis to do so. In a succinct statement from ACE’s press office they told... Published Friday, 29 September, 2006 at 03:22
Stan Will Dance in October If you like your dance mixed with abusive language, sex, violence and a hefty dose of social commentary then Siobhan Davies Dance Company is probably not your kind of thing! Stan Won't Dance however is probably right up your shady... Published Saturday, 16 September, 2006 at 09:19
New Phone Number As of today Article19's old phone number will no longer work and we have a nice shiny new number which is listed below so you can update your contacts; +44 (131) 208 1845 If you have Skype on your computer,... Published Friday, 1 September, 2006 at 01:36
Bonnie Bird Awards As indicated by the headline these annual cash awards are up for grabs again via application to the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund. Applying is easy, just fill in a form you can download from the BBCF website, make sure you... Published Tuesday, 22 August, 2006 at 02:42
ACE Evades Capture Arts Council England in London has declined Article19's request for an audio interview to discuss the new Capture organisation being funded by the Council to the tune of £200,000 per year, starting this year. The funding bodies reluctance to be... Published Thursday, 17 August, 2006 at 02:26
'Strung' Up! If like us you wince every time you hear about a dance piece that will be 'utilising technology' and visualise a work strewn with video screens, computers, wires and all manner of nonsense then fear not because 'Strung', the debut... Published Wednesday, 2 August, 2006 at 11:49
Contribute From The Wings The Winger weblog, based in the United States, is looking for a few contemporary dancers to join the mix of contributors to their dance blog about the behind the scenes goings on in this most troubled of professions. The blog... Published Tuesday, 18 July, 2006 at 10:27
Dance UK, Dance Manifesto Yesterday saw DanceUK, accompanied by several dance 'celebrities', handing over the Dance Manifesto to Minister for Culture; David Lammy on behalf of the dance profession at large. The 24 page glossy brochure outlines, although not in great detail, certain aims... Published Tuesday, 11 July, 2006 at 01:27
Ludus Live and Online Ludus are currently in the process of creating a new project called 'Trapped'. The difference between this project and others is the fact that they are attempting complete online documentation of the process using video and podcasting! It is fairly... Published Monday, 3 July, 2006 at 10:42
Charts June 2006 The Norwegians have conquered this month taking the top spot after a strong debut last month with Panta Rei Dance Theatre. They hold off the challenge from Motionhouse who, along with the interview from Kevin Finnan, nestle into the... Published Saturday, 1 July, 2006 at 11:07
ACE and Section 43 Arts Council England (ACE) has concluded that its handling of a Freedom of Information Request was conducted properly and fairly following what it describes as an 'internal review' of the situation following a complaint from Article19 to ACE's Chief Executive;... Published Saturday, 24 June, 2006 at 05:53
ACE & Pensions Arts Council England, exhibiting a level of awareness almost unheard from them, have commissioned a survey into pensions awareness for artists backed up with a website that will tell you everything you always wanted to know about pensions and why... Published Friday, 16 June, 2006 at 12:53
ACE Delays Again Arts Council England (ACE) has once again delayed providing an explanation as to why certain information requested by Article19 under the Freedom of Information Act was not supplied when requested back in January of this year. The application regarding ACE... Published Monday, 12 June, 2006 at 01:25
The Charts, May 06 Bare Bones hold on to the top slot for another month despite a very strong challenge from Panta Rei Dance Theatre. The Norwegians fought the good fight but fell at the last fence, perhaps they will prevail next month... Published Monday, 5 June, 2006 at 02:54
Maintenance Blog Just a short note to let you all know that if you want to keep up to date about the changes, fixes and possible new features that will be making an appearance on Article19 then you can do so via... Published Sunday, 4 June, 2006 at 02:01
Hofesh To The Point One of the bright new hopes for contemporary dance choreography will be appearing at The Place in London for three nights with a series of new works. Israeli dance maker Hofesh Shecter will premiere a brand new piece, 'Uprising', alongside... Published Friday, 2 June, 2006 at 11:32
Impulstanz On The Way The annual dance bun fight that is Impulstanz gets under way in July for a month of performances, workshops and research projects involving pretty much all of the contemporary and other dancers in the whole of Europe. Taking place... Published Monday, 29 May, 2006 at 01:49
Erna Picks Up Award Erna Omarsdottir has picked up an award for her ongoing work in choreography and performance. Details are thin on the ground about the Honorary Artist of Kópavogur award and pretty much all we can tell you is that Kópavogur is... Published Sunday, 28 May, 2006 at 11:10
No News Is .......... No news is, well, no news at all really. There has been a drought of dance related goings on in the last couple of months as you can probably tell from the oh so few stories appearing in this section... Published Monday, 22 May, 2006 at 09:57
Place Prize Ready To Roll The Place, National Dance Agency for London, has announced the entrants into this years, bi-annual, Place Prize competition that will take Place (geddit?) an excruciating number of times over the coming several months with the winner announced in September. The... Published Friday, 5 May, 2006 at 01:19
The Charts April 2006 Bare Bones come flying into the top spot for April after a full month as one of the front page main features. This continues the popularity of the company here on Article19. Late in May we shall be featuring... Published Monday, 1 May, 2006 at 02:48
ACE Thins The Herd Arts Council England (ACE) is currently in the process of deciding whether or not to lay off 42 members of staff within its central office in London and save the funding giant £2million in the process. The press release states... Published Thursday, 20 April, 2006 at 10:28
ACE and C4 Disclosure Issues Arts Council England (ACE) has refused to release detailed budgetary information to Article19 under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the 4Dance television programme commissioned by ACE and produced by Channel 4 Television and MJW Productions in London. ACE granted... Published Monday, 17 April, 2006 at 02:33
Error Corrected A minor code error in our archive pages meant that links to pages were none operational for some users of Internet Explorer 6 on Windows PC's. We have now fixed the error and apologise for any inconvenience this may have... Published Saturday, 15 April, 2006 at 09:25
The Charts March 2006 Jasmin Vardimon Company holds on tight to the top two slots with strong showings for both 'Park' and 'Lullaby', ironically both pieces are currently not touring, 'Park' returning later this year to the circuit. Unsurprisingly all of the BDE06... Published Saturday, 1 April, 2006 at 04:07
Dance Magazine Retracts List Following strong criticism from around the world of its policy towards Israeli dance companies and dance makers, Dance Europe has removed a world wide listing of dance companies from its website. A list that excluded all Israeli companies but included... Published Monday, 27 March, 2006 at 12:21
Shouting Bows On The Lab It occurred to us, here in The Lab, that there was a gap in the information we could provide to our dear readers from other readers, who are of course just as dear to us. So we have plugged in... Published Friday, 24 March, 2006 at 04:35
Dance Europe Backtracking As news and condemnation spreads on Dance Europe's apparent policy of not featuring Israeli Dance Artists unless they openly disagree with their government over the Palestinian situation in the Middle East the magazine appears to be trying to repair the... Published Thursday, 23 March, 2006 at 03:04
Javier to Phoenix Phoenix Dance Company have announced that Javier De Frutos will be the company's next Artistic Director following the departure of current AD Darshan Singh Bhuller in August of this year. The release, issued today, quotes Mr De Frutos as saying;... Published Thursday, 16 March, 2006 at 12:45
Dance Europe, No To Israel? Dance Europe, the London based dance magazine, has declined to either confirm or deny an ongoing policy of refusing to feature any Israeli dance company unless they denounce, in writing, their governments position of occupying the West Bank and Gaza... Published Tuesday, 14 March, 2006 at 11:15
The Charts Are Back At the beginning of each month we'll bring you the top 20 videos from the previous month so you can see who the movers and shakers are in the dance video world (please don't say 'movers and shakers again' Ed!)... Published Sunday, 5 March, 2006 at 02:41
ACE Backtracks On FOIA Refusal Arts Council England (ACE) has backtracked on a previous decision to deny Article19's Freedom of Information request for details of the 4Dance:Dance4Film television programme that aired on Channel 4 on December 29th. Initially ACE rejected the request on the grounds... Published Wednesday, 1 March, 2006 at 02:40
Old News We have noticed that many folks are searching for old news stories that are no longer held within the current archive. Because the system was upgraded at the end of the year all of the old news was left out... Published Friday, 24 February, 2006 at 12:21
DCMS, Lame Duck Forum? The Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) recently announced the formation of a national 'Dance Forum' for England that, in the words of David Lammy the Minister for the Dept., "[is]keen to learn from [the] expertise and knowledge [of... Published Friday, 17 February, 2006 at 12:24
Swiss Retreat on Ballet Dance East, the National Dance Agency for the East of England, continued with its programme of retreats for harassed ballet company directors, this time in Vevey, Switzerland. The most recent excursion was completed on February 1st and, at the time... Published Sunday, 5 February, 2006 at 10:27
Intime with Ballet Lorent After the success of both The Ball and La Vie the company are set to return this coming Tuesday with a new hybrid show that essentially creates a remix of both previous shows into one new, 3 hour long, experience.... Published Sunday, 29 January, 2006 at 01:04
British Dance Edition Reloaded The bi-annual dance bun fight returns, this time in Leeds, hosted by Yorkshire Dance, the National Dance Agency for Yorkshire (big surprise there, Ed!) British Dance Edition (BDE) is a little bit different from your average dance festival because it's... Published Friday, 27 January, 2006 at 12:21
The Point Moves Forward The Point Theatre in Eastleigh, which is about as far to the bottom of the UK as you can get, will be hosting a conference on youth dance this coming March. Described as being a 'stimulating and valuable day' for... Published Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 at 10:44
Motionhouse Scoops Audience Award It's the awards season for almost everything at the moment, movies, television, cookery and of course dance. The National Dance Awards were announced yesterday by the Critics Circle and although the results are often predictable, with wins for Akram Khan,... Published Friday, 20 January, 2006 at 09:59
Resolution Up And Running Resolution, the platform for new choreographers, is under way in London at The Place in the Robin Howard Theatre. The festival is now in its 17th year of presenting work from, in their view, the best and the brightest of... Published Wednesday, 11 January, 2006 at 12:21
All New Article19 Welcome dear reader to our brand new version of your favorite dance magazine. Let us begin by apologising for the delay with getting the new version online. Some last minute bug fixing and design changes were needed before we could... Published Saturday, 7 January, 2006 at 08:05
Val Bourne to Leave Dance Umbrella The long time Artistic Director of the UK's most well known dance festival will step down after 27 years as the head of the prestigious event. In an interview with Ms Bourne two years ago she told Article19; "At the... Published Monday, 2 January, 2006 at 07:37
BBC Dumps Dance Film Academy The BBC has announced that the follow up to the Dance Film Academy that aired on BBC4 earlier this year has been cancelled. An announcement that should have surprised absolutely no one was met with great sadness by the hacks... Published Tuesday, 6 December, 2005 at 12:30
Right Wing Super Hero In perhaps the most ridiculous editorial ever written, Brian C. Anderson in the Los Angeles Times is under the impression that the best way to get people into see your new movie is to extol, what he describes as, right... Published Wednesday, 16 November, 2005 at 12:32
Taxing Times for Orchestras This is one of those stories that really makes you question whether or not the people running this country are, in fact, up to the job and should we seriously consider replacing the whole lot of them with the cast... Published Sunday, 30 October, 2005 at 12:34
Stroking the Numbers A recent survey quoted by the Independent newspaper on October 6th suggesting that audiences for contemporary dance have risen by 68% over the last ten years fails to mention some interesting points that paint a slightly less rosy picture for... Published Wednesday, 12 October, 2005 at 12:35
Place Prize Again As if to prove the long running mantra in the arts that no bad idea is too bad to repeat the Place Prize (PP) lurches into view once more hosted by The Place in London and sponsored by Bloomberg. In... Published Friday, 7 October, 2005 at 12:37
Quark Quark Major US software company Quark, publishers of the prolific Quark Express publishing software revealed a new logo last week that bares more than a passing resemblance to the logo for our very own Scottish Arts Council. Quark revealed the logo... Published Wednesday, 14 September, 2005 at 12:40
Surveying the Survey This past week Londondance.com the dance orientated website based at Sadlers Wells in London and funded by Arts Council England released the results of their survey, conducted online several months ago. Upon review some of the results harvested from... Published Friday, 26 August, 2005 at 12:42
Summer School Falls Short A summer school currently running at Dance City, one of the UK's National Dance Agencies based in Newcastle, has led to some unhappy dance makers after they discovered the advertised leader of the workshop was not going to be there... Published Sunday, 7 August, 2005 at 01:55
ACE and The Language Barrier Arts Council England (ACE) the major, if not the only, funding provider for the arts in the UK has launched what they describe as The Cultural Leadership Programme. We would love to tell you all about it, but we can't... Published Sunday, 31 July, 2005 at 07:52
Dirty Money at ROH? It's one thing when a credit card company demands that you repay money you have spent on their card but when a recipient of charitable donations demands you pay up or else you know it could only happen in the... Published Thursday, 28 July, 2005 at 01:59
Slow Man Walking! In a story to be filed under "only In Contemporary Dance" Ohad Fishof will be walking very slowly across London Bridge on June 21st as part of some bizzarre recognition that June 21st is the longest day of the year.... Published Tuesday, 7 June, 2005 at 07:55
Khan Goes To Brussels A recent audition posting for the Akhram Khan Company raised a few eye brows not because an audition for the company is anything out of the ordinary but because of its location, Brussels, Belgium. This is odd if for no... Published Monday, 9 May, 2005 at 02:01
Don't Call Us We Won't Call You Stung by a raft of negative news stories the dance department of Arts Council England in London is now refusing to accept phone calls from everyones favourite dance publication (maybe not 'everyone's' favourite! Ed!) When calling ACE's central switchboard last... Published Monday, 18 April, 2005 at 07:56
Ace Propping Up ENB Arts Council England's (ACE) recent funding announcements for their spending plans over the next three years were notable for the funding giants description of having to make "hard choices" in the coming years. The Independent has revealed that some of... Published Monday, 18 April, 2005 at 02:02
Part Time Press Releasing Information obtained by Article19 under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed some interesting facts about Article19's, for want of a better word, competition in the online dance publication stakes at Londondance.com (LD) For the coming financial year, 2005/2006, LD... Published Saturday, 5 February, 2005 at 08:02

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