‘At the heart of the show, of course, is Ramesh’s absolutely captivating, compelling performance. His assured, physicality is all the more remarkable, given that much of the choreography — and there really isn’t a better term for the seemingly effortless quality of his precise, graceful movement — takes place some 20 feet above a [...]
Joining dancer choreographer Caroline Bowditch for a day’s Push Me filming with her team in 3 Mills in Bromley by Bow, I’m struck by the enormity of her task and the steps she is taking as a choreographer in this vast expanse.
We did the shoot for Bobby Baker’s PUSH ME film yesterday, and in the process learnt that there is nothing Bobby likes more than a nice cup of tea, made by her own hand, just for herself. Not that Bobby is against making tea for others, oh no. Just that there is something especially [...]
Much Wenlock is a small Shropshire town, home of the late William Penny Brookes who inspired the modern Olympic Games. Last weekend, it came alive with a variety of art events by disabled artists, including PUSH ME’s Simon McKeown. Entitled M21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century the collection of interventions was presented by [...]
As Jonzi D from Breaking Convention rightly put it at the breakfast launch this morning, The Space is ‘a good way to not pay for some brilliant art.’ Being a ‘curator’ with Push Me alongside Jo Verrent with Watershed is a fine thing – bar the high speed plate of croissants that made alien contact [...]
Fantastic day filming with Jez and Mind the Gap yesterday to get the footage to create his first PUSH ME 90 second short – the wind nearly blew us off Ilkley Moor though! We were filming at the venue for the Yorkshire performances of Irresistible – the famous Cow and Calf rocks at Ilkley. [...]
When Ruth Mackenzie, Director, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, announced the final commissions in the Unlimited programme she said: ‘Unlimited is about commissioning world-class artists to create brilliant work which will change perceptions of the work of disabled and deaf artists.’ And she was absolutely right. Unlimited is quite simply the largest commissioning fund for disabled [...]
I must stop saying we are putting artists into space – that simply isn’t true. We are putting them into The Space, which is a whole different thing. But what is The Space? If you go to Arts Council England’s site, this is their definition: …an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that [...]
With PUSH ME we get to feature the work of some fabulous artists and companies. Want to know which ones? Then read on… We have Mish Weaver/Stumble Dance Circus with Box of Frogs giving us a poignant, original and funny exploration of passion and disappointment - a Bipolar Circus, a manically depressed form of entertainment (its their pic here), Bobby [...]
When you take part in an art project, you very rarely get to see behind the scenes – especially at the beginning. Since this whole project (and the other commissions in The Space) are a bit of an experiment, we thought it might be fun to share the application detail with you – you could [...]
There was a new opportunity advertised far and wide in the land. And there were two people – lets call them Jo and Sarah – who had an idea for a project that just seemed to fit. But the project was far to big for them to do on their own though. They needed other [...]