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. Their latest work, as the title might suggest, is a riff on the cheesy game show format deployed by many television companies to […]
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Following on from the success of last years full length work ‘Gameshow’ the Manchester based Company Chameleon return to the touring circuit with a double bill of new work. One piece, ‘Eden’ from Gemma Nixon and Jonathan Goddard and ‘Pictures We Make’ from company AD’s Anthony Missen and Kevin Edward Turner. For this year the […]
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. Their latest work, as the title might suggest, is a riff on the cheesy game show format deployed by many television companies to […]
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Dance™
A long time ago, in a piece of writing far far away we, here in TheLab™, made a lot of fun of the Rural Retreats project being run by Dance East, one of the UK’s National Dance Agencies. In defiance of all logical reasoning the project is still running and the latest “retreat” wrapped up […]
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Jingle Boyz
For some reason the christmas holidays have become the time for dance programmes that, for reasons past understanding, make it onto television. Apart from the usual classical ballet re-treads, this year brought us a couple of “documentaries” one of which was ‘Ballet Boyz, The Next Generation’ broadcast on More4 (part of Channel4) on christmas day. […]
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The War on Cheese
No, that headline is not a joke, this is serious. You’ve seen the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on Christmas, well now we are at war with cheese! Apparently somebody called Rob Williamson, who is attending a seminar held by Arts Council England on their doomed Catalyst Arts project, said, out […]
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. ‘The Lessening of Difference’ covers all the bases with dance making, acting, singing, projection and snow provided courtesy of no […]
The Coda Oslo International Dance Festival held in Oslo Norway from October 11th to October 23rd 2011 and featured works by Anjelen Preljocaj, Yvonne Rainer, Ervi Sirén, Carte Blanche and many more.
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Stress Test
by Neil Nisbet There are many tasks that journalists must undertake during any given day but one of the most fundamental is conducting interviews. Whether it’s discussing the nature of things with a dance maker or a dancer about their work and profession or haranguing a politician or bureaucrat about their policy decisions the interview […]
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Plan A
At a recent debate hosted by DanceUK and The Arts Desk an opening question was put to all in attendance. Something along the lines of “if you could have one wish for the dance profession what would it be?” One of the answers came from Caroline Miller, the head of DanceUK, she said that “dancers […]