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’ As the work tours around the UK and Europe it morphs into various configurations. […]
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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. Working with actual scientists, otherwise known as boffins from Oxford Brookes University, the company haver […]
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Digitally Digital Revolution
It’s official folks, Arts Council England in collaboration with the BBC have invented digital technology. We know this because the documentation for their new media content platform entitled ‘The Space’ uses the word “digital” or “digitally” about thirty times or more. It’s not at all clear what this project is aiming to acheive or how […]
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The Wrong Stuff
Do you remember, back on the 11th of October when there was a “Private Members’ debate on the Education System and Dance” at the House of Commons? No? Well don’t worry about it, you’re not alone. From our point of view, here in TheLab™, it was curious to note the attendance of Lauren Cuthbertson and […]
Gunhild Bjórnsgaard has in recent years worked with choreography concerts, in which the musician performs choreography as a dancer would. With this new piece Bjórnsgaard probes the depths of the world of composer Georges Aperghis. Dancers: Nina Biong, Silje Aker Johnsen. This performance was recorded at the Coda Oslo International Dance Festival in Oslo Norway […]
The performance is an adapted reconstruction of Har du sett min oldemors grónne korsett – det kan fly (“Have you seen my great-grandmother’s green corset – it can fly”) from 1992 which premiered at Scenehuset in Oslo. Four individual solos were created on the theme of foremothers. Dancers: Snelle Hall, Steffi Lund, Olga Papalexiou, Hege […]
Peter Sparling is Thurnau Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan and active independent dance artist. As former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, chair of the U-M Department of Dance from 1988-93 and Artistic Director of Peter Sparling Dance Company from 1993-2008. This performance was recorded at the Coda Oslo International […]
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 […]
The national dance company of Norway was once again in attendance at the Coda Dance Festival in Oslo for 2011. This year brings a very unusual work from the stable of Israeli dance maker Sharon Eyal. The costumes and the lighting design make this work look very old school but the movement and the sound […]
Peggy Jarrell Kapplan, a New York based photographer, has been taking portraits of dance makers since the 1970’s. From Trisha Brown to William Forsythe there is barely a choreographer she has not captured on her (film based) camera. The Coda Oslo International Dance Festival is hosting an exhibition of the photographers work with many participants, […]