We have been featuring Verve, the graduate dance company out of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, for four years now and Verve 10 is here for 2010 with 5 new works and 11 new dancers. Just in-case you don’t know what a graduate company is or does then allow us to explain. […]
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Self Interest
If you’re new to the wacky world of dance then there is a pretty good chance you will turn to the internet looking for information about this most beleaguered of professions. What is it? Why is it? Where is it? Are probably just a few of the questions you, as a newbie, will want to […]
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Forgetful Wells
File this one under “It’s Funny Because It’s Sadler’s Wells Which *Is Dance* But They Didn’t Read Their Funding Guidelines Properly So Let’s Laugh Near Them, Not At Them!” Over the last year or so a question has been niggling away at us, here in TheLab™, regarding just why the self aggrandising London theatre didn’t […]
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Why It’s Different
It sometimes comes up in conversation why things are different for professional dancers compared to other folks doing their particular, non dance, job. Why do we focus on dancer’s pay and health provision so much, what’s all the fuss about? There are many reasons why the work of a professional dancer is “different” but here […]
What can we say about Motionhouse Dance Theatre that hasn’t already been written? Well, probably quite a lot since our book ‘Motionhouse The Untold Story, Living The Dream with Very Little Cash’ couldn’t find a publisher. Having previously toured the country with works involving scaffolding (‘Volatile’), mountains of sand (‘Perfect’), too many objects for words […]
What can we say about Motionhouse Dance Theatre that hasn’t already been written? Well, probably quite a lot since our book ‘Motionhouse The Untold Story, Living The Dream with Very Little Cash’ couldn’t find a publisher. Having previously toured the country with works involving scaffolding (‘Volatile’), mountains of sand (‘Perfect’), too many objects for words […]
When last we featured the work of Arthur Pita it was wrapped in the cloak that was Bare Bones Dance Company with the ‘5 Man Show’. This time out Mr Pita has cut loose with a full evenings work entitled ‘God’s Garden’. Based on the biblical parable ‘The Prodigal Son’ (or the ‘Lost Son’) this […]
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Trendy Spikes
Writings and rambling in the press are telling anybody that will listen that the current crop of dance shows on television, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and their ilk, are cheap and nasty but they’re good for dance. The aforementioned BBC “talent” show is doing a contemporary dance bit this coming weekend with choreography […]
Something a little bit different here in the shape of Finnish dancer and choreographer Tero Saarinen with the re-staging of a work by Carolyn Carlson from the 1980’s. If you’re a dance student and you shudder at the thought of performing a solo for a few minutes in front of your teachers or your class […]
Something a little bit different here in the shape of Finnish dancer and choreographer Tero Saarinen with the re-staging of a work by Carolyn Carlson from the 1980’s. If you’re a dance student and you shudder at the thought of performing a solo for a few minutes in front of your teachers or your class […]