I feel like a blindness is incurred when we talk about dance in this utopian, clear-cut, way. Asking ‘which is better?’ obscures ‘how could it be better?’
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10 May 2013Tags bellyflop, blog, context, dance, Performance, review, Sarah Crompton, The Place Prize -
08 May 2013Festivals like 'Art of the Moment' make my ears prick up. This particular one is refreshingly explicit about the shifting ground it stands on, but also reassuringly well thought through and prepared.
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01 May 2013
Writing doesn't take space. Writing makes space.
It's essentially an opener: of other thoughts, of other writings, of other doings. It makes room for things where before there wasn't. It can seem to tread on things but really it opens new paths.
I like this.
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29 Apr 2013I wanted to address something that has been bothering me about The Experiment, organised by the Female Choreographers Collective (FCC) and performed last week at Laban.
Category Arts, Culture, Guest Bloggers, Musings, PoliticsTags dance, feminism, gender, gender politics, Judith Mackrell, MEN, The Experiment, The FCC, women -
26 Apr 2013Dance world and opinions is a tricky balancing act when we invest ourselves in the work we make and somewhere in the creative and production process, our egos mistake the work we make for us.
Tags Criticism, dance criticism, Reviews, The FCC, Twitter, Visual Art -
23 Apr 2013The article was published.
We were not paid.
Tags anger, contract, despair, freelancing, little guy, suing, unpaid, Writing -
03 Apr 2013For anyone after a gentle weekly club off the professional track, a new recreational netball and dance club is currently running every wednesday evening at The Albert. It's for women 16+ looking to get (back) into the game, into their bodies, and into dancing.
Every wednesday, 7-8.30pm
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01 Apr 2013It’s 05.58am. I’m listening to Cherry-Coloured Funk by the Cocteau Twins under neon white light. I’ve napped a bit but there’s only so many ways a body can fit over two train seats without some limb or hip joint going numb. My eyes are not heavy but they know, in their stingy dryness, that they should have been shut for longer. The train is stopped in Plymouth.
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31 Mar 2013Friday night saw the pilot run of Step Whack Step, an hour long show on Resonance 104.4 fm about dance. Yes, dance!
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25 Mar 2013Watch a short film about The BELLY of the Beast, BELLYFLOP Magazine's programme of dance curated for a Sadler's Wells Wild Card event at the Lilian Baylis Studio.
Performance clips, talking heads... the lot.
Film by Ben Harvey.
