We’re finding out more about those working alongside our PUSH ME artists – after all, part of the push for them is working with new people, pushing all parties forwards to new levels of achievement. For Unlimited Global Alchemy, Rachel Gadsden has been working with the sensational choreographer and performer Freddie Opoku Addaie, Artistic Director [...]
PUSH ME thought it time to catch up with multi talented Rachel Gadsden as she builds a different side of her project for the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank in rehearsals with a new collaborative team. The boundaries of Rachel’s artistic practice are once again being stretched as she pushes herself into an altogether performative [...]
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 [...]
It was a real pleasure to be in the room as part of the press launch for the Unlimited Festival today with 3 of our Push Me for 90 second films. The Push Me team have been busy filming, editing and blogging over the last few months and our artists have been eagerly awaiting for [...]
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!’ [...]
“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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]