Last night at 8.30pm GMT the world began to change. The London 2012 Paralympic Games opened, with a ceremony full of life, vitality, humour – and choc full of disabled performers and figureheads. As Jim White wrote in the Daily Telegraph: Opening ceremonies of the Paralympics have, in the past, been earnest, insipid affairs. Jokes were not [...]
It is with immense pride (and quite a bit of sweat) we can finally announce that all our 12 PUSH ME artists now have their first 90 second films in The Space!
Time to tell you more about our team – this time, it’s the turn of co-curator Sarah Pickthall – just who is she and what does she do? Sarah is a freelance consultant, coach, artist and community producer with over 20 years experience in arts, television funding, training, education in the UK and Japan. She [...]
We popped up to Glasgow last week to film the second 90 second short based on Claire Cunningham, who was just about the open Ménage à Trois - a darkly humorous and deeply personal portrait that explores Claire’s 20-year relationship with her crutches and asks if it’s possible to find love when there are already three [...]
Box of Frogs have also been finalising their tour – and boy are they busy! after the Southbank on 2nd and 3rd Sept, they move to Preston Guild on Sept 7th, then Circomedia in Bristol on Sept 27th and 28th and The Landmark, Ilfracombe on Sept 29th. Heading north they perform at ARC, Stockton-on Tees on Oct 3rd and at Contact, Manchester on [...]
If you get to see Janice Parker’s Private Dancer, her commission for the London 2012 Festival, the first thing you will notice is the House. Part set, part sculpture, the installation is the construction that houses the five rooms in which the private dances take place, but its more than that too. Its actually a [...]
Hopefully by now you’ve caught Bobby Baker’s first 90 second PUSH ME film? If not – where have you been? You’ll see that she is deep in conversation with people – laughing, listening and having those all important cups of tea. But just who is it she is talking with? The first film was shot [...]
I don’t want to join the circus – I just wanted to catch up with the cast of Box of Frogs, Stumble danceCircus’s fantastic exploration of bipolar disorder and all things circus. Turns out I would need a private jet to catch up with all of them.
Today the news is full of the end of the Olympics, following the closing ceremony last night and the extinguishing of the olympic flame. But there is another way to look at it – it means its only 15 days now until the Opening of the summer Paralympics, with an opening ceremony co-directed by none [...]
We’re finding out more about those working alongside our PUSH ME artists – after all, part of the push for them is working with new people, pushing all parties forwards to new levels of achievement. For Unlimited Global Alchemy, Rachel Gadsden has been working with the sensational choreographer and performer Freddie Opoku Addaie, Artistic Director [...]
I’ve been trying to catch up with Janice Parker, but she’s all over the place – and I mean literally! Right now she is in Philadelphia on a two week an international exchange lab investigating devised work and intergenerational performance with People’s Light Theatre. She is working with 6 artists from the Epic Theatre Ensemble of New York [...]
Last week in Stockton, an eight metre high figure took to the streets as part of Stockton International River Festival when Prometheus Awakes was performed, presented by Graeae
and La Fura dels Baus
and co-commissioned by GDIF and SIRF, as part of the London 2012 Festival. Graeae of course, are part of PUSH ME with The Garden, [...]
Laurence Clark is in his spiritual home – the Edinburgh Festival – with his Unlimited commission show, Inspired, for the next few weeks, and he’s already picked up his first 4 star review:
Maybe you know all about Push Me and are an avid follower of us on The Space, Twitter , Facebook and here on our own blog at pushmeplease – but maybe you’re not and want to know more about what Push Me is and what its aiming to do. Well, a new short film (and at [...]
The work of Simon Mckeown is complex in many ways – including technologically. So how does someone get access to cutting edge motion capture software, editing facilities, programmers and kit? Simon does so through the support and encouragement of the University of Teesside where he is a reader based in the Institute of Design, Culture [...]