Extraordinary. Unlimited. In 90 seconds. If you go to Arts Council England and BBC’s The Space today – you’ll see that PUSH ME is currently on the front page with our 90 second feature on Jez Colborne. We are delighted to be there! So first, push this lot for 90 seconds… Dive deep with Sue Austin and ‘Creating The Spectacle!’ [...]
Laurence Clark’s show, as we know, is about inspiration – particularly why disabled people are so often seen as inspirational when they undertake rather mundane things. He’s not the only one out there wondering about this. A recent blog by Stella Young from The Australia Broadcasting Corporation focuses on the growing phenomenon she refers to [...]
The Push Me team got so much more than tea and sympathy with artist Bobby Baker in Sheffield yesterday, we got bourbons and custard creams, the sort of biscuits that are part of the fabric of our daily lives and a whole lot more besides. The 2 performances of Mad Gyms and Kitchens were shown [...]
Last Wednesday 27th June, Sue Austin made a spectacle of herself in the best way possible at Creating the Spectacle 1 – ‘The Mouth of the Fleet Lagoon’ in Portland, Dorset, as part of her Unlimited Commission for Festival 2012. Designed as ‘an experience’ rather than a performance , the hundred or so local people [...]
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 [...]