The latest work for seven dancers by choreographer Stephanie Thiersch and media artist Angela Melitopoulos focuses on mimicry: imitating, adapting to a structure, disguising, becoming invisible, turning up and stepping out of line. Dancers: Viviana Escalé, Inés Hernandez, Mu-Yi Kuo, I-Fen Lin, Victor Launay, Nicolas Robillard, Valenti Rocamora-Tora. This performance was recorded at the Coda […]
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Trio A consists of a 5-minute sequence of movement that was initially presented as The Mind is a Muscle, Part I (1966) at Judson Church. There it was performed by Yvonne Rainer, David Gordon and Steve Paxton simultaneously but not in unison. Since then the dance has taken on myriad forms, from execution by a […]
Some, if not most of you, may never have been subjected to an hour long piece by infamous composer John Cage, he of the Merce Cunningham collaboration. Well, we, here in TheLab™, went through that experience this past Tuesday with a performance of ‘Empty Moves [Parts I & II] from Ballet Preljocaj. Check it out […]
Ace Dance and Music are back on tour with their brand new, co-created work ‘ICE’, performed for the very first time this past Saturday in a very sunny Leeds. For this season the company have brought in Japanese dance maker Akiko Kitamura to collaborate with the company’s AD Gail Parmell. What emerges is an eclectic […]
Ace Dance and Music are back on tour with their brand new, co-created work ‘ICE’, performed for the very first time this past Saturday in a very sunny Leeds. For this season the company have brought in Japanese dance maker Akiko Kitamura to collaborate with the company’s AD Gail Parmell. What emerges is an eclectic […]
At no point in this intro will we use the phrases “high octane”, “high powered”, “visceral” or “Keyser Söze”…… not that we would use the last one anyway but still. We, here in the TheLab™ and, probably, 2Faced Dance Company are a bit tired of such phrases. So, the Hereford based company took to the […]
At no point in this intro will we use the phrases “high octane”, “high powered”, “visceral” or “Keyser Söze”…… not that we would use the last one anyway but still. We, here in the TheLab™ and, probably, 2Faced Dance Company are a bit tired of such phrases. So, the Hereford based company took to the […]
At no point in this intro will we use the phrases “high octane”, “high powered”, “visceral” or “Keyser Söze”…… not that we would use the last one anyway but still. We, here in the TheLab™ and, probably, 2Faced Dance Company are a bit tired of such phrases. So, the Hereford based company took to the […]
OK kids, Scottish Dance Theatre made their regular pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with an eclectic triple bill of work wrapped in the title ‘Matters of the Heart. What you may not know about the company from the land of tartan, haggis and the Loch Ness Monster (it’s real you know! Ed!) […]
OK kids, Scottish Dance Theatre made their regular pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with an eclectic triple bill of work wrapped in the title ‘Matters of the Heart. What you may not know about the company from the land of tartan, haggis and the Loch Ness Monster (it’s real you know! Ed!) […]