Vincent Dance Theatre, Candoco Dance Company, and William “Mad Man” Forsythe have all announced plans to present their respective companies works in 3D this coming autumn following a wave of popular success for the format. Theatres across the nation are, apparently, “gearing up” for the unprecedented interest being expressed by both theatre goers to see […]
Following Arts Council England’s announcement of their NPO portfolio on Wednesday March 30th it’s not too difficult, even with a cursory analysis, to determine that, as predicted, ACE has simply rearranged the deck chairs on a certain sinking ship. All the while hoping nobody is going to notice. Looking at the numbers issued by the […]
Trawling through the publicly available accounts of arts organisations is not a fun thing to do. Wading through a mud pit full of man traps would be more entertaining but wade we did and this is what we found (all numbers are for year end 2010). Richard Alston Dance Company spent £57,660 on marketing, £31,356 […]
The latest report from the completely useless and entirely ineffectual Department of Culture Media and Sport select committee arrives at conclusions that several hundred thousand people came to many years ago. ACE for the most part, is a bit rubbish. Unfortunately this latest report focuses on things that happened so long go that the funding […]
Phoenix Dance Theatre enter their 30th year of producing and touring and, more than most companies, they have been through their fair share of ups and down. So far, 2011 seems to be one of the ups. The company has a new AD, in the shape of Sharon Watson, and three new pieces of work […]
by Neil Nisbet Arts Council England (ACE) has a plan, a philanthropy plan! Well, it’s not their plan it’s the DCMS’s plan and it was, evidently, dreamt up in a hour during a coffee break while the political hacks were figuring out how to work their new microwave oven. The Department for Culture Media and […]
Protein are back on tour with their latest in a long line of socially savvy works. This time the company’s creative protagonist, Luca Silvestrini, is taking aim at social networking and all of its related foibles. As with many of Protein’s creations ‘LOL (lots of love)’ contains a hefty dose of acting from the dancers, […]
A couple of weeks ago when we were writing ‘So Now What?’, our piece on the ludicrous salaries for various men in suits at the Royal Opera House we turned, naturally enough, to Dance UK for comment. Lest you be unaware Dance UK, in their own words are; “… the national voice for dance. [They […]
You would have thought that large scale arts organisations would have learned not to let TV cameras roam about at will through their murky innards. The Royal Opera House took that lesson to heart many years ago when a BBC documentary made them look like the worlds biggest collection of overpaid buffoons in the history […]
The Verve are back for their 11th incarnation with a new set of dancers, a new set of dance makers and a new set of works for touring up and down this slightly broken land of ours. For this year the graduate company from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds has assembled Charles […]