It’s a week since we screened Total Permission – our 30 minute feature to a full house at Watershed in Bristol. People packed the cinema keen to see the fruits of our labours in what turned out to be a very apt celebration for International Day of Disabled Persons. So many different perspectives and positions [...]
Claire Cunningham in her second 90 second PUSH ME film describes the moment when she first put a jacket on a pair of crutches and created a non-disabled boyfriend. Alongside footage of Claire’s inimitable choreography with crutches – solo and in duet – she muses on the hypocrisy of love from the point of view [...]
Relax back and watch 90 seconds of Ramesh Meyyappan pushing himself through the aches and pains of stunning aerial feats and in playful repose. ‘Fear’ isn’t a word in Ramesh Meyyappan’s vocabulary – but risk taking is. Here he describes his work on his Unlimited commission, Skewered Snails, and considers the impact that Deaf and [...]
Simon Mckeown’s spectacular sizeable failure? We don’t think so. When flat it doesn’t look like anything but when inflated, his figure becomes something quite magical. See for yourself. Join Simon Mckeown as he watches his 10.5 metre figure of a thalidomide affected kick boxer inflate for the first time in this, his second PUSH ME [...]
What does it take to create the setting in which to hear a story? See the concrete mass of the Southbank through Jenny Sealey’s eyes as she imagines The Garden unfurling at Unlimited. Experience a sense of intrigue and moments of exquisite beauty. Being part of the Cultural Olympiad is massive for Jenny and to [...]
We are very pleased to see Total Permission featured as one of the recent highlights in The Space. It has been great to see our documentary looking so poised and floaty on the front page of The Space for over a week now. A breathtaking feature. We are delighted to be screening Total Permission @Watershed [...]
What would your response be to seeing a wheelchair plunge into the sea? A sharp intake of breath? Shock? Concern? Take the plunge with Sue Austin in this her second PUSH ME short film as she freewheels into the murky mouth of the Fleet Lagoon in Dorset. An altogether different foray from the warm waters [...]
Audiences were consistently amazed at Janice Parker’s Unlimited Commission, Private Dancer, at the authenticity and the generosity of the performers. So why does Janice wonder if she has gone too far this time? A fascinating exploration of the private dance moments, her second PUSH ME short film lets us in to her thinking behind the [...]
Find out how a painting displayed in the MAA Cambridge pushed Rachel Gadsden to develop a golden project for the Cultural Olympiad. Rachel, an award winning artist travelled to South Africa to meet and collaborate with a group of artists, who like her, are kept alive by medication after chancing upon a painting that spoke [...]
Comedian Laurence Clark defies the usual tags of who can do what and why and takes our thinking for a swing in The Space in his first PUSH ME short. They said he was an inspiration when he started to do stand-up, when he got married and when he became father, but Laurence has never [...]
What’s happening inside the belly of 3 Mills Studios? A brilliant choreographer putting her movement on the dancers. Go check out The Space and see 90 seconds of an epic production finding its feet. Leaving Limbo Landing is an ambitious new outdoor production by Caroline Bowditch performed in air, in water and on land exploring [...]
A non-stop whirl of feverpitched acrobatics, cycling and hula-hoops to infuse your Thursday thinking. Let Stumble danceCircus play for 90 seconds in the Space. Stumble danceCircus presents Box of Frogs – a circus show with a difference. Five acrobats and two musicians play with the audience’s expectations of mental ill-health and performance, against a backdrop [...]
Take a few moments out this morning to see a few private dance movements in the making. Janice Parker takes us behind the world of Private Dancer to discover dance as it is rarely seen. Here you don’t have the security of hiding in an audience of masses. Here you watch performances one on one. [...]
Our top tip for Tuesday – a dash to the kitchen for a perky wellness brew! Spare 90 seconds to take tea with artist Bobby Baker and find out why her latest performance, Mad Gyms and Kitchens, reaches the audiences her other work hasn’t been able to reach. In the making, Bobby Baker’s first 90 [...]
It’s been a week since I worked with the fabulous voice artist and describer, Willie Elliott to hone and record the 30 minute audio description (AD) for our PUSH ME documentary Total Permission in Bristol. Ironically when we first sat down to script the piece, there seemed to be more space than ever to fill [...]