A few weeks back we were able to meet with Artistic Director of Graeae Theatre Company, Jenny Sealey with our Push Me team and film her in the gorgeous grounds at the Geffrye Museum in East London where she spoke to us about her Unlimited Commission, The Garden.
I love The Space. I’m a real advocate. I just wish I could access more of it. So at the end of of the formal panel session on The Space at FutureEverything it was time for questions, so I stuck up my hand to ask about accessibility – a key element for PUSH ME [...]
Did you catch any of FutureEverything? – a cutting edge festival of music, art and all things digital held in Manchester now in its 17th year? It’s a great event with a host of fascinating sessions – including one this year on The Space, so I popped along to find out more.
Filming with Claire Cunningham was always going to be unusual. The three bags full of crutches were a bit of a clue, and then the location – an undeveloped part of The Arches in Glasgow – complete with lights, projections and even a smoke machine.
Last weekend standup comedian Laurence Clark was spotted in his shorts hanging around Tate Modern. When questioned about it, he was loathe to disclose any detail, so we’ll just have to wait. (We’re Push Me, but not that pushy!)
Not many people can shimmy up a rope, give it a few twists and then sit – silent and poised. Ramesh Mayyappan can, and once there he can also create of what we, the audience, might see if we were up there too, within the world of his piece Skewered Snails.
As we wait to pop our first few Push Me for 90 second films into The Space, we’ve been catching up with some of our artists like Rachel Gadsden from our earlier film shoots as they work to their timetable of summer events leading up to the Southbank showcase in early September. When we first [...]
Beautiful day filming with Janice Parker and some of the dancers from her dance event, Private Dancer. It’s a rich and many-layered event and it was a real privilege to be allowed to witness some of the individual rehearsals as two of the dancers built up their solo pieces – which only some of [...]
We had our first shoot this week with Simon McKeown… at an inflatables factory. Simon’s Unlimited commission is about taking his world travelling exhibition Motion Disabled one phase further – with new footage and subjects, a new iPhone app - and a 10 metre high inflatable avatar.
It feels a lifetime ago since our first Push Me shoot with Sue Austin in Portland, Dorset – on a chilly sunny April day when we first took a closer look at her Unlimited commission, Creating the Spectacle! At that time, we discovered that the exclamation mark was not just a flourish or a typo [...]
Jez Colborne is one of our featured artists: an actor, a performer and in his heart of hearts – a musician. He’s never happier than when in the studio laying down tracks. We’ve got a link here to some of his tracks that feature as part of his Unlimited commission – Irresistible.
‘At the heart of the show, of course, is Ramesh’s absolutely captivating, compelling performance. His assured, physicality is all the more remarkable, given that much of the choreography — and there really isn’t a better term for the seemingly effortless quality of his precise, graceful movement — takes place some 20 feet above a [...]
Joining dancer choreographer Caroline Bowditch for a day’s Push Me filming with her team in 3 Mills in Bromley by Bow, I’m struck by the enormity of her task and the steps she is taking as a choreographer in this vast expanse.
We did the shoot for Bobby Baker’s PUSH ME film yesterday, and in the process learnt that there is nothing Bobby likes more than a nice cup of tea, made by her own hand, just for herself. Not that Bobby is against making tea for others, oh no. Just that there is something especially [...]
Much Wenlock is a small Shropshire town, home of the late William Penny Brookes who inspired the modern Olympic Games. Last weekend, it came alive with a variety of art events by disabled artists, including PUSH ME’s Simon McKeown. Entitled M21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century the collection of interventions was presented by [...]