It’s a week since we screened Total Permission – our 30 minute feature to a full house at Watershed in Bristol. People packed the cinema keen to see the fruits of our labours in what turned out to be a very apt celebration for International Day of Disabled Persons. So many different perspectives and positions [...]
Claire Cunningham in her second 90 second PUSH ME film describes the moment when she first put a jacket on a pair of crutches and created a non-disabled boyfriend. Alongside footage of Claire’s inimitable choreography with crutches – solo and in duet – she muses on the hypocrisy of love from the point of view [...]
Relax back and watch 90 seconds of Ramesh Meyyappan pushing himself through the aches and pains of stunning aerial feats and in playful repose. ‘Fear’ isn’t a word in Ramesh Meyyappan’s vocabulary – but risk taking is. Here he describes his work on his Unlimited commission, Skewered Snails, and considers the impact that Deaf and [...]
What does it take to create the setting in which to hear a story? See the concrete mass of the Southbank through Jenny Sealey’s eyes as she imagines The Garden unfurling at Unlimited. Experience a sense of intrigue and moments of exquisite beauty. Being part of the Cultural Olympiad is massive for Jenny and to [...]
Find out how a painting displayed in the MAA Cambridge pushed Rachel Gadsden to develop a golden project for the Cultural Olympiad. Rachel, an award winning artist travelled to South Africa to meet and collaborate with a group of artists, who like her, are kept alive by medication after chancing upon a painting that spoke [...]
Have you caught any of the PUSH ME shorts on the BBC Big Screens yet? They went in to the Big Screens play lists on the 15th September, and have all been playing several times a day on all 22 screens throughout the country since then, and they will continue playing daily until the end of November. [...]
Fantastic to see PUSH ME’s Claire Cunningham and Caroline Bowditch alongside Marc Brew featured in this great blog by Kelly Apter at the scotsman.com. Shows such as Ménage à Trois not only give the younger generation of disabled dancers something to aim for, they play a crucial role in helping audiences to see beyond the [...]
How great to see two more PUSH ME – The Journey films uploaded by the The Space team yesterday. Join Sue Austin as she plunges into cold local waters in Dorset early this summer making a spectacle of herself to the delight of local audiences. And when you’ve dried off , move through the concrete [...]
A few days back I spent a morning perfecting another new skill – burning some of the PUSH ME short films onto dvds. I’ve never been involved in that side of production before and now have a new found respect for anyone who hands me a dvd – I now know how long it might [...]
Very little could pull the PUSH ME team away from the final packed hours of the Unlimited Festival at The Southbank but nothing was going to keep us from catching the final gig of Laurence’s Clark’s star spangled summer tour of Inspired across the river at a well known house of comedy – The Bloomsbury [...]
We were delighted to see Rachel Gadsden’s second 90 second film up in The Space following the success of her body mapping workshop yesterday in the Clore Ballroom as part of the Unlimited Festival workshop programme.
We have spent much of the weekend bumping into our Push Me artists out there promoting their work and in repose, soaking up the atmosphere of this extraordinary week for disabled people everywhere. The Southbank is awash with people enjoying not only the rich feast that the Unlimited Festival has brought to the capital but the [...]
Time to tell you more about our team – this time, it’s the turn of Jo Verrent the other half of the curation team as our Push artists and the Unlimited Festival wows The Metro. We caught up with Jo this morning on the cusp of staging Unlimited Voices, a series of talks and debates that she’s [...]
Our last Push Me blog on Rachel Gadsden focused on her rehearsals for the premiere performances of Alchemy (UGA) on the 5th September as part of Unlimited Festival. But what many people don’t know is that Rachel is also rehearsing Starting Line, a live outdoor piece using film, visual art and performance that celebrates Stoke [...]
We were delighted to catch up with Jenny Sealey this week and shoot her 2nd film for Push Me. The Garden’s writer Alex Bulmer has been busy reworking the script for The Garden (as Jenny works on the Opening Ceremony for the Paralympic Games) for its revival at The Southbank for the Unlimited Festival. Alex [...]