Today we bring you our third feature from our recent visit to the Coda Oslo International Dance Festival in the shape of the all female dance company Panta Rei who hail from Oslo. The Norwegian folk take us back a time when dance works could actually be about something that was neither mean nor depressing. […]
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Today we bring you our third feature from our recent visit to the Coda Oslo International Dance Festival in the shape of the all female dance company Panta Rei who hail from Oslo. The Norwegian folk take us back a time when dance works could actually be about something that was neither mean nor depressing. […]
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A Year Out Of Focus
2012, for us at least, started with some trouble after we published a piece that suggested Resolution, The Place’s annual new-dance bun fight, could probably do with an overhaul. Funding the choreographers that take part was one of our suggestions. Some readers disagreed though with one in particular saying; “If you want to patronize, ridicule […]
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Clarion Call
Economists all over the world agree that the UK’s coalition government is completely incompetent. Absolutely nothing they do works, their ideas are all bad ideas and no matter how terrible things get they stick to their guns and just make everything worse. So it continued last week with the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s “autumn statement” […]
While in the sunny, albeit cold, climes of Oslo for the 2012 Coda dance festival we happened upo this, the latest performance from Emio Greco | PC, ‘La Commedia’. The work, created by Mr Greco and Pieter C. Scholten (the PC from the company title), brings the thematic construction of the circus ring to explain, […]
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Hold The Junk
As dance companies go the Ballet Boyz are a bit different, different in that they appear to be more focused on the physical appearance of their dancers (The Boyz) than they are on the work the company creates and tours. Don’t believe us? Just take a quick look at last years documentary, made by the […]
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A Man With A Plan
“In c.100 AD Gaius Plinius (Pliny the Younger), in a letter to his friend the historian Cornelius Tacitus…” You know when a report starts with a sentence like that we’re all in a lot of trouble. So begins a report called “Philanthropy Outside London” written by Peter S. Phillips for the Department of Culture Media […]
Something a little bit different here in the shape of a short documentary we made for the Coda Oslo International Dance Festival in Norway back in October. The festival runs every two years but on occasion, in the off year, they run a mini-festival and for 2012 that festival was focused on Coda Ung (Coda […]
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Upside Down
The arts world in the UK is getting its knickers in a collective knot, again, after somebody who doesn’t matter said something that isn’t true on a radio show people only pretend to listen to. Here in TheLab™ we didn’t hear what was actually said. First of all because it was on the radio and […]
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The Last Stand
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced the details of its government enforced restructuring plan to reduce operational costs by at least 50%. Part of that restructuring is the cutting of 117.5 jobs across the country from a number of ACE offices. We could speculate all day about just exactly who at the funding monolith is […]