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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I 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.
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| 29/04/13 |
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I did this silly thing of making a dance piece that addresses issues of race. And no-one seems to want to talk about these issues in response. This is not something I have ever really wanted to talk about before either.
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| 12/02/13 |
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I've heard lots of people going on and on about Billy Elliott and The Pitmen Painters - undoubtedly important and successful works that have reflected well on the locality whence they came. This is a the market- and London-centric view that says regional, subsidised art exists to be the research for the work that can be sold at high value to satisfy capitalist wills.
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| 01/02/13 |
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Should the Tate be given £50 million of government money to develop a space for performance?
Am I just being cynical and is this actually a great thing?
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| 01/05/12 |
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At the Coffee Morning on the 10th of April we spoke about dance writing. It was one of those days when I was feeling sceptical - do we need to write about it? Surely we just need to do it? If we don't write about it, is it okay for somebody else to write about it?
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| 29/04/12 |
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I chose to edit this blogpost on Tuesday 24 April to add some things I'd forgotten or misunderstood. I'd put these in the comments, but on reflection I thought they merited being put in the main post. I have left the comments, too, for your information.
On Friday I went to an event called Meet the Programmers. This is what the pre-event information said:
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| 22/04/12 |
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At last, a dance 'flash mob' which has some sort of point and reason to it.
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| 15/04/12 |
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A blog about the state and fate of contemporary dance.
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| 31/03/12 |
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