Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
Review: Dublin Fringe Festival-DOGS
Emma Martin Dance-Dogs-Fringe Festival Dublin 2012-Project Arts Centre As Dogs begins the lights come up very slowly, carefully revealing and not revealing what is to be seen. Two musicians take their places behind a large drum set and a harpsichord. A soprano opera singer begins an aria. Six dancers take their places while there is...
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Birmingham ArtsFest 2012
ArtsFest is one of the biggest and most popular urban festivals in the UK, is the UK’s biggest free arts festival, and exists to celebrates the West Midland’s astounding wealth of creative talent. Usually, it is an eclectic mix of music and arts, poetry and dance, drama and crafts, from the traditional to the innovative...
The Festivals of 2012
The Festivals of 2012 By Liam Martin It’s undeniable that the world of festivals has reached an apex in the UK, it’s festival event horizon. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to suppose that there must be 2 or 3 each weekend from May to October these days, and it’s not uncommon for people...
Fringe Review: JSAC Presents: A Lot of Seoul
A lot of Seoul comprises several different dancers working in unique styles showcasing their short choreographed pieces one after the other. For that reason, the show was disjointed and lacked the flow really needed in a dance performance. The first dancer had a delicate and calculated style, using tense, slow and considered movements to entrance...
Appointment with The Wicker Man: Perfect Small Town Silliness for the Fringe
Appointment with The Wicker Man from The National Theatre of Scotland Review by Jennifer Adam “Perfect silliness for the fringe” Those who know me well won’t raise an eyebrow when I jump over drains on the pavement, won’t question why I say ‘Salt and Pepper’ after we’d walked opposite directions round a lamppost...
(Tallinn) Rakvere city blog: Balto-scandalous
Out the city again, accompanied one time with mini-mass exodus of theatre patrons, performers and proles. This, as I’m led to understand, small sampling of the Tallinn cultural glitterati do not as such travel east in my lap – rather it’s an artfully staged movement – more mobility than Moses – towards the Bi-annual theatre...
Choreography Clinic; a dialogue among dance makers about making dance
No stranger to the vast terrain of Los Angeles, southern California native Marlita Hill bypassed the geography challenges with the creation of her blog Choreography Clinic. Many artists find it difficult to congregate and have meaningful dialogue within their medium, in a city so spread out. “People are so close to each other but they...
All started with a crazy dog. An interview with Anya Liftig
Anya Liftig is a New York-based live artist I met last February in London at ]performance s p a c e ['s Valentine's Day dinner. That day I fell in love with her expressiveness and ability to go deep into our inner instincts with the lightness of a dancer. The first time we met it was at ]performance s p...
