Time for a strange mix of styles both dance and music wise with Balbir Singh Dance Company and their work ‘Decreasing Infinity’. We caught up with them at the Fringe in Edinburgh. The mix of styles we have on show are contemporary dance and kathak for the movement and the music comes from the tabla […]
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Coming to Article19 for the first time with the rather oddly titled ‘Bagofti’ (the reason for the name is explained in the interview) is dance maker Gary Clarke. Having performed with many dance companies across the UK and Europe as well as choreographing work for a diverse range of groups Mr Clarke comes to the […]
Thomas Small has been creating dance work now for more than a decade with his company Smallpetitklein based in Dundee in the North of Scotland. ‘Falling Man’ marks their first excursion into the crowded world of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and draws its inspiration from an infamous photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew […]
Although Jack Webb may be new to Article19 in terms of video features he’s certainly not new to Article19 itself, having been a blogger here for quite some time. No writing this time however just dance making and performing in Mr Webb’s new solo ‘Beta Wave Transport’ specially commissioned by DanceBase in Edinburgh and Dance […]
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One Man Boring
‘One Man Walking’ is the latest foray into dance film making by the production company MJW comprised of producer Anne Beresford and director Helen Williams. This particular effort also has Jonzi D. (Breakin’ Convention) on-board as a writer. Here in TheLab™, we’ve had our issues with MJW before, none of them in the least bit […]
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How Not To Get Killed
The furore that has erupted over the cancelling of a large scale community opera created by writer Lee Hall (of Billy Elliot fame apparently) by Opera North has led to most of the scrutiny being placed upon Opera North itself. This is despite the main villains of the piece being a primary school and an […]
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The Most Wretched Thing
We might as well get straight to the point here. The BBC show ‘The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance’ (MITACD) screened last night on BBC4 was contemptible, risible pish. MITACD was, apparently, a “personal journey” conducted (fnar fnar) by musician Charles Hazelwood through the wide and wacky world of contemporary dance. This is a […]
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Confused Corporation
Starting on June 30th the BBC will be running a series of programs ostensibly about “contemporary dance”. The first of the programs is indeed called “Dance! The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance” (it’s a subtle joke that will be explained later). For an opening gambit the BBC told us this about the coming season […]
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Free Range Liberals
Last week we ran a story concerning the numbers issued by Big Dance for participation in their events in London over a nine day period. We said the numbers were made up, ACE issued a statement to try and clarify things, then just dug themselves and Big Dance into a slightly deeper hole. First of […]
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O’Hare A Who?
Following the announcement by the Royal Opera House that Kevin “I’m so obscure even I don’t know who I am” O’Hare has been appointed to helm the Royal Ballet we, here in TheLab™, slipped an ROH insider some used £10 notes in a brown paper bag to get a hold of his “Aims and Objectives” […]