This is nostalgia and premonition jumbled together with neon knits and unitards and latex, polished off with a brief, circular, light early-modern dance reconstructed for our (or their) enjoyment.
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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?
Don't miss Jérôme Bel tomorrow night. Thursday 22nd march, 8pm GMT. Wherever you are, if you have internet you can watch him perform live at the Tate Modern.
The future is here! Or rather, the present will be there.
Being a dancer/performer/blogger/maker (goodness!) working in and around dance today has me thinking a lot about authorship. Who's got it? Who's giving it up? Who cares? Who's grabbing it with both hands? Are we beyond it? Baby, give me a sheet of multi-coloured sticky dots and I am all over it.
This weekend celebrates Black History Month, east london photography festival, and the Twisted Cabaret Festival... and other things.
'The Official Nope Pope Party' offers a night of music and comedy. 'Improvisations with Paul Burwell' presents three days of film, installation and performance. 'EAR ME NOW' celebrates the relationship between hearing and seeing. 'ArtEvict' experiments with spontaneous actions and audience participation. And Tate Modern film programme 'To Be is to Be Perceived' features films by Samuel Beckett, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol and many more... What will you do this weekend?
This weekend: Duckie's 15th, Vivienne Dick films, Art Evict, a luxury cruise down the Thames, and the Dancing Brick with a piece about 'the greatest ice dancers of all times'.
If you missed this weekend's Tate Modern screenings of Charles Atlas' 1980s films (or obsessions) with Michael Clark, and fancy a taste of the iconic film 'Hail The New Puritan'.

