And today is International Day of Persons with Disability (not our choice of words, but we’re not arguing with the United Nations). As they say: Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical [...]
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 [...]
Our PUSH ME documentary is coming to Bradford! Yup – you don’t have to sit and watch it on your little computer screen – you can watch it in full beautiful enormous loveliness at the National Media Museum in Bradford on the 3rd December – as part of International Day of People with Disability. It’s [...]
It’s all kicking off today – Total Permission, our 30 minute documentary on the Unlimited Projects is up in The Space – AND the documentary and the PUSH ME project are one of Arts Council England’s new case studies celebrating 18 years of lottery funding and showcasing just what lottery cash can do.
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. [...]
We aren’t the only ones counting down – Watershed, the executive producers of PUSH ME are also on a roll, showing one PUSH ME short a day too until 2nd Dec and then hosting the cinema premiere of the documentary Total Permission at their base in Bristol.
We were delighted to hear in The Guardian earlier this week that The Space and our PUSH ME films will now have an afterlife beyond the original designate 31st October deadline for the pilot project. We are currently negotiating how this will effect how and in what way we are able to show our PUSH [...]
Each month, Arts Council England includes some feedback from its own staff about work they’ve seen – and this month they are talking about Unlimited – so for example, here’s what Lucy Murray, Relationship Manager, Theatre had to say about Mad Gyms and Kitchens by Bobby Baker:
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
In 2005, Janice Parker received a Creative Scotland Award from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to spend a year exploring new depths within her work and creating new points of departure. The plan was to immerse herself practically in the creative process of making work – starting points, end points, motivations and possibilities. [...]
A number of the fantastic artists involved with PUSH ME are pushing their stuff out there this month in the lead up to September’s big showcase at the Southbank. We’ve been hard at work reading and collating some of the reviews of the on Disability Arts Online so you can find them all in one [...]
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!