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Mr Abbott
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Here's a new interview in The End of Dance series, this time with Tamsin Fitzgerald of 2Faced Dance Company from Hereford.

She talks about ending a choreography, losing Arts Council England NPO funding & a 25 year company retrospective. Photo by Emma Drabble

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A black and white photograph of a woman who is crouching in a dance studio. She's looks off to the side of the camera and is wearing a dark top and trousers and has curly hair.
May 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Today marks the 10 year anniversary since I've been writing about dance for Writing About Dance.

I get all smooshy reflecting on the importance of independent media platforms, dances encountered & an acknowledgement of Nicholas Minns (founder/editor). #DanceSky

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A colour photograph of a number 5 dimly lit bodies sat closely together with their limbs making X's over their heads and different geometric planes. Their faces are covered by a long, flowing and elaborate cream coloured feathered mask. They sit on a wooden structure which has a large circular hole at the centre.
February 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Here's the latest in my new series The End of Dance & it features Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé from Montreal.

Spicey talks about working in 10 year cycles, her company Ebnflōh, her influence on Street Dance, ending work relationships & vulnerability. #DanceSky

www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...
A colour photograph of a Black woman with shoulder length red and brown braided hair; she’s wearing a black pork pie hat, massive thin hoop earrings which emerge from her hair, bright purple lipstick and a blue and gold patterned top. She’s smiling with her eyes and mouth and is stood in front of a slightly blurred wall panel with a black and gold logo.
February 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The 2025 #DigitalCultureAwards shortlist has landed & @extantltd.bsky.social are chuffed to be recognised in the Digital Inclusion category for our audio drama Unseen.

The entire Unseen creative team (20+ people) were visually impaired inc. cast, writers, sound designer, script editor & director.
A multi-colour graphic with an off white colour background, small pink semi circles and dark blue text which reads '2025 Shortlisted'. Below this, is a large semi-circle, with text which reads 'Digital Inclusion' and the Digital Culture Awards and Arts Council England logos.
February 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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"Participants were asked to vote in a poll, to indicate...if they felt the discussion represented a consensus position...or there were substantial gaps."

"Although there was broad consensus around the overall state of touring, there was a desire for other key points to be raised." #theatresky
A table graphic with 6 rows and 7 columns. Column 1 - Row 1 = Blank Column 1 - Row 2 = Topic C1 - R3 = The state of the current touring ecology C1 - R4 = Financial Risk and Partnership C1 - R5 = Audience and programme trends C1 - R6 = Programme and product: length and location of tours Columns 2 and 3 give the answers in numbers and percentages from the session held on 2nd December. Columns 4 and 5 give the answers in numbers and percentages from the session held on 10th December. Columns 6 (agree) and 7 (disagree) are the combined numbers and percentages from both sessions. The state of the current touring ecology - 140 (89%) agree and 17 (11%) disagree. Financial Risk and Partnership - 103 (72%) agree and 41 (28%) disagree. Audience and programme trends - 87 (67%) agree and 42 (33%) disagree Programme and product: length and location of tours - 91 (75%) agree and 31 (25%) disagree.
January 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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It was a night of rituals, welcomes, ribbon cuttings and collective mark making as we circled the venue (based in a former church) with the bell tower ringing before entering the auditorium.

Their opening season inc. Oona Doherty, Marikiscrycrycry, Solène Weinacheter, Cree Barnett-Williams & more.
A colour photograph taken from off-centre looking towards a red velvet seating bank with 200 seats which has 15 people sitting and standing. In the background and to the right we see thick concrete pillars, walls and religious plaques adorning the wall.
January 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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A little moment of UK dance history happened in Bristol last night.

Impermanence opened their new theatre - The Mount Without - with performances from Seeta Patel Dance, Mark Bruce Company, Owen Ridley-Demonick and Impermanence (who performed an homage to the late David Lynch). #dancesky
A colour photograph of 5 people sat in a semi-circle on chairs on a stage engaged in a conversation. The floor is bathed in blue light and at the bottom there’s the back of several audience members heads.
January 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Changing Room (2017) feat. 79 caps and 12 appliqued hand embroidered jackets which you were able to wear within the gallery.

#There'sNoPlace by Jakkai Siributr really rewards close attention and digging into the details. His work 2018 was a revelation, chronicling the year across 12 panels.
A colour photograph of the back of 5 camouflage army jackets hung on coat hangers which fill the top ¾ of the image. The jackets have dozens of colourful people, buildings and trees hand stitched into them. Above the jackets are a dozen white caps which hang loosely on the grey wall.
January 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Outworn by #JakkaiSiributr offers three textile wall hangings using Thai service worker's uniforms - which reflect on the increased unemployment cause by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This work - Airborne (Klongtoey) sees orange motorcycle taxi high-vis vests transformed into stitched masks. #ArtSky
A close-up colour photograph of a tightly sewn, textured, soft, bright orange wall with a flash of navy blue. The orange is made up of plastic netting, sleeves and has the occasion word of thai script visible alongside zips, pockets and other recognisable clothing details. Hanging vertically in front of the wall are a series of dark, thin threads with religious iconography tied to the end.
January 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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1) The Jakkai Siributr exhibition at The Whitworth (closing 16/3/2025) is a stunner.

#There'sNoPlace creates lush, textural, narrative-rich handmade embroideries, quilts and textile installations in response to the religious, political & societal issues in Thailand, inc. this from his work 2018
A cropped colour photograph of a multi-textural, super-vibrant, hand-sewn on a white quilted background. The artwork features 3 soldiers in the foreground, buddhist iconography dotted throughout, wispy grey and white beaded clouds at the top as well as fantastical beasts with human heads.
January 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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3) Time (from the Louder than Words series) sees Barbara Walker layering and collaging. This is her son, Solomon, and one of the many stop and search dockets that he received from West Midlands police.

#BeingHere is heading to @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social, Bristol (7 March - 25 May 2025). Go.
A closely cropped colour photograph of a mixed media artwork. It features a digital scan of a salmon pink Financial Times newspaper from 2009, whitewashed in the centre with two charcoal figures – the face of a young black man and the back of another. There’s a yellow form with red ink writing pasted onto the right of the newspaper.
January 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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2) It was so good to see her body of work as a whole - the accumulation of politics, formats, communities alongside the technical mastery.

This - All The King's Men - from the Shock and Awe series sees White soldiers embossed (& almost invisibled) whilst Black soldiers are surfaced via graphite.
A colour photograph of a detailed graphite artwork on paper. There’s a Black male solider in a World War 1 uniform front and centre and he is flanked via two other embossed figures who stand above him, but you’re only able to see the outline of their features and uniform due to the technique.
January 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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1) The #BarbaraWalker exhibition at The Whitworth (closing 26/1/25), Manchester is extraordinary.

It's unfathomable* that #BeingHere is the first survey of this brilliant artist. With 70+ works spanning different cycles of practice inc. this from Turner Prize nommed Burden of Proof.

*see racism
A colour photograph of a charcoal artwork which features a profile (looking right) and torso of a mature black woman which is layered over a hand drawn solicitors receipt on headed paper.
January 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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The End of Dance - a new series of texts that examines endings in dance & creates space for the aftermath & impact.

Featuring long form interviews & essays it offers a reflective space for people to evaluate & see how their dust has settled.
#DanceSky

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A black and white photo featuring two head shots. The person on the left is a White woman in her early 30s with dark, centre parted shoulder length hair and a light coloured top, she looks directly into the camera. The person on the right is a Brown woman in her late 20s with dark hair in a loose up style and a dark colour shirt with buttons, she looks to the right of the image, away from the camera.
January 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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WAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLLLL.

What an experience at the Welland Wassail. It was time to wake the trees, feed the robins cider soaked toast at the mother tree and meet the green man.

Wassailing is about scaring away the evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of apples in autumn.
A colour photograph at night. On the right is a large man with green face paint, bushy ginger beard and wearing a brimmed hat coverage with foliage and christmas lights. He wears a golden embroidered poncho and is holding a flaming torch in his left hand. He looks towards an older woman on the left hand side with short dark hair and dark top. In the background we see the outline of a number of bare trees lit up in red, green and blue.
January 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I felt like I was decomposing in my seat like Rekha. Rekhachitram felt loooooooong. A rudimentary police procedural with AI recreating a 73 year old Mammootty into his mid 30s heartthrob era as they attempt to blend fact/fiction & discover a murder on the 1985 film set of Kathodu Kathoram. #FilmSky
A colour film poster containing two prominent characters in the centre looking towards the camera. A middle aged Indian man with a bushy moustache on the left wears a tan police uniform, peaked cap and brown leather belt and his body faces left. A young Indian woman wears a white nuns outfit and habit alongside a silver crucifix on her chest. In the background are a series of sepia photographs and letters. Below the characters is the title of the film - Rekhachitram - alongside the 20+ names of the director, producer and cast in a small white font.
January 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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2025. More of this please.
Worms Head showing off AGAIN.

The Gower Peninsular was the first place in GB to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956...which is 70 years next year.

Plenty of satisfying hand scrambles to cross the tidal causeways and reach the top of the worm.
A colour photograph of a series of rocky and grassy headlands which head towards the horizon onto the mainland. Sandwiched between the sea on both sides, the top third of the image is full of feathery clouds and blue skies.
January 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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My Top 12 Films in 2024.

Over 100 trips to the cinema (mainly due to Odeon MyLimitless) + a dozen streamed films.

The Boy and The Heron, The Substance and Perfect Days are on the podium.

Watched about a dozen Malayalam + Telugu films and definitely want to see more in 2025. #FilmSky
A graphic made up of 12, portrait, film posters (feat. Aavesham, All of Us Strangers, The Boy and the Heron, A Different Man, Emilia Perez, Godzilla Minus One, Kneecap, Love Lies Bleeding, Occupied City, Perfect Days, The Substance, Toto The Hero) in alphabetical order. They are on 2 x rows of 6 and there's a thin band of black between the two rows.
December 30, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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A little Christmas day cloud inversion from Waun Fach looking towards Pen Y Fan. #TheBlackMountains
A colour photograph of a cloud inversion looking towards another mountain range. Wispy clouds and blue skies fill the top half, a silhouette of ridges and tops stretch from the left edge to the right edge across the middle. The bottom half is full of dense clouds that feel very close.
December 26, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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One of the things I'm loving about @bsky.app is discovering so many brilliant communities of interest who're sharing their knowledge. @cartivist.bsky.social posted this incredible illustrated map of London written on a glove, so if you're interested in maps or archives - follow Andrew.
Off-white leather glove with the hand illustrated design of an outline map of central London (between Kensington Gardens and Bank) across the palm and fingers.
December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Musical highlight of a recent trip to PAMS (Performing Arts Market in Seoul) was this concert - A Funky Night With Guardian Spirits by CHUDAHYE CHAGIS.

A psychedelic, funk, shamanic, Hip Hop band with a hugely charismatic lead singer.

chudahyechagis.bandcamp.com/album/undern...
A colour photograph of a Korean, female singer wearing an ornate twin feathered head piece, holding a large yellow fan in her right hand and wearing black dungarees and a white top. In the background is a shaggy haired drummer wearing a patterned black and white jumper sat against a deep blue stage.
November 30, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Ink Cypher - In Print is an exquisitely designed, limited edition, Hip Hop dance newspaper featuring 55 commissioned texts.

+++ A centre fold poster and an exclusive introductory essay I wrote 'The Biters: AI, Remixing and Hip Hop Dance'

www.hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-i...
A colour photograph of the front page of a salmon coloured newspaper. The title text - Ink Cypher - is at the top in dark blue and each individual letter looks like it is dripping paint from it. Below this is the salmon coloured text "Original features and long form writing on Hip Hop dance from a suite of international voices" which sits on a dark blue background which covers the rest of the front of the paper. Below this and taking up over half of the cover is a tri-coloured circular graphic with curved lines connecting different parts of the circumference together.
November 27, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Stoked to have Tafsila Khan joining the Extant team next month. She will be the second visually impaired Trainee Artistic Director to be part of Extant. We continue to create opportunities for incredible VI folks... & the next opp is coming soon.

extant.org.uk/announcing-o...

Photo: Jorge Lizalde
A colour photograph of Tafsila Khan, a South Asian female in her 40s who is standing, smiling in a park area holding her long white cane. She's wearing a white t-shirt, white open shirt and khaki trousers.
November 20, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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Show Me Your Inter/Nationalisms - an examination of some international dance performances within the frame of "inter/nationalistic" showcases at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024.

+++ Banal nationalism & the cultural border force.

www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian...

Photo by Casten Beier
A colour photograph of a single performer alone on a stage, balanced on his head, legs bent at 90 degree angles wearing an orange top (which falls towards his chin revealing chisselled abs) and grey sweat pants. The background is black with a spot light casting shadows on the floor.
November 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Show Me Your Nationalisms - a deep/critical dive into some of the dance works presented at the Made in Scotland 2024 showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

+++ Funding tomfoolery by Angus Robertson, Scot Gov and Creative Scotland.

www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian...

Photo by Sally Jubb
A photograph of two performers, who're visible from the torso up set against a 70s, psychedelic pink, brown and red repeating geometrical pattern backdrop. The performer on the left is wearing the same pattern as the backdrop and we can only see the bottom half of her face as she she looks towards the the performer on the right. He is oblivious to her presence, stares towards the camera, wears denim blue dungarees and adjusts a purple stripey tie.
November 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM