He’s so funny that Laurence Clark and his Inspired show last night at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff as part of the fabulous Hijinx Unity Festival programme took his unique combination of wry sardonic humour to the parts that other comedians fail to reach. Not only that, there were several threads of narrative within this very [...]
Even last minute changes to our travel plans couldn’t diminish the fantastic footage that we were able to shoot at the dress rehearsal for Private Dancer’s 2012 incarnation at The Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow on Thursday last week. As well as filming at the dress rehearsal, I stayed up to take part in [...]
“If we get the festival right, people will remember 2012 not just for amazing sport, but for unforgettable art as well.” So says London 2012 Festival Director Ruth Mackenzie in the hot-off-the-press official guide to the London 2012 Festival – and we agree, especially in relation to our artists!
Just over 24 hours to go until Sue Austin becomes a delicious drop in the ocean in her first public London Festival 2012 performance, Creating the Spectacle! Part 1: The Mouth of the Fleet Lagoon. The performance with local school children and a lucky handful of stewards will start at 12 noon in Portland, Dorset [...]
Nigel Hinds, Creative Producer of the Cultural Olympiad at London 2012 described Rachel Gadsden’s extraordinary body of work as ‘a revelation’ at its opening last Friday 22nd June in Cambridge. The Unlimited Global Alchemy premiere is one of the first of many events in the Festival 2012 calendar that will showcase our 12 artists on [...]
The Unity Festival is featuring the Unlimited Commissions of a number of artists and companies including some of those within PUSH ME. Hijinx Theatre’s Unity Festival is Wales’ international inclusive arts festival, now in its fifth year. There is a great programme of comedy, theatre, children’s shows, dance, cabaret, street theatre, music, workshops, talks and [...]
Caroline Bowditch’s Unlimited commission Leaving Limbo Landing is scheduled to go back into rehearsal soon ready for the first showing of the piece at East London Big Dance on the 7th July. The PUSH ME team first met Caroline in May, rehearsing her dancers in East London. Caroline is not new to choreography but [...]
Jez Colborne is anxiously watching the weather – at the end of this week Irresistible, the show he developed with Mind the Gap, finally reaches its Yorkshire peak - a symphony of sirens set within the rural beauty of Ilkley Moor. It’s a large-scale musical experience that combines warning sirens and choral music with projections on rock faces [...]
Nearly there with our links to the essays about the Creative Case on Arts Council England’s website hosted by Disability Arts Online. This time we are pointing you to one in which Laurence Clark spearheads – You’ve got to Laugh, an essay on disability and humour.
We wanted to pass on the link to a fantastic interview with Mish Weaver by Jo Childs for Run Riot. Called ‘Circus meets the Mind’, it really gets to the heart of Mish’s work on bipolar circus and the reasons behind the creation of Box of Frogs, her Unlimited Commission that we feature in [...]
This week Rachel Gadsden made the Huffington Post as number 7 of the 21 must see artworks in the Cultural Olympiad this summer – how great is that! I caught up with her yesterday as she was busily applying the final touches to a particular piece for the opening of Unlimited Global Alchemy next week [...]
A few more links for you from the Arts Council’s Creative Case site (hosted by Disability Arts Online) – where the essays presented link to the work of our amazing PUSH ME artists. This time it’s the turn of Caroline Bowditch and Sue Austin. Caroline Bowditch’s former work with Scottish Dance Theatre as Dance Agent [...]
The Creative Case is a re-imagining of Arts Council England’s approach to diversity and equality, setting out how these areas can and should enrich the arts for artists, audiences and our wider society. It puts the creativity of artists first and looks at how they have inspired and directly created change and momentum around them. [...]
With the Diamond Jubilee pretty much wrapped up and the Push Me team away from the editing suite with our first films now completed in subtitled and audio described versions, it’s been interesting to dip into the media coverage of the Queen’s four day celebrations with some of this accessible thinking on our minds. Much [...]
Stumble DanceCircus has just released a great trailer for Box of Frogs, interviewing the director Mish Weaver about the the show and why she chose circus as a medium for exploring her own experiences of bipolar disorder