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
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.