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 www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

Who is doing interesting thinking/research about AI, disability & environmental impact? One of the tensions I'm grappling with is e.g. visually impaired people use assistive technology/apps which have AI at their centre & make their journey through our ableist world easier. Links/humans welcome.

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 www.linkedin.com/posts/itabbo...?

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...

Welcome to your #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) Space 2 Create Commission - East London Dance £11,000, 4 weeks of studio time, producing & marketing support for an artist from Hip Hop dance, South Asian or African dance practices. #DanceSky d/l 17/3 www.eastlondondance.org/opportunitie...

Welcome to your #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) Space 2 Create Commission - East London Dance £11,000, 4 weeks of studio time, producing & marketing support for an artist from Hip Hop dance, South Asian or African dance practices. #DanceSky d/l 17/3 www.eastlondondance.org/opportunitie...

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.

6 weeks later and we now have a summary, written by The Audience Agency, of the 2 x 2hour events looking into touring in England. My personal response from the first session is in the skeet string below; here's a few quotes from the official pdf summary (which is screen reader unfriendly).

Mr Abbott@thegeometrician.bsky.social · 2y ago

💡Touring performing arts in England. @artscouncilengland.bsky.social have engaged The Audience Agency (a contract worth £50k-£100k) to conduct a study of the touring of theatre, dance, music & combined arts to indoor venues with 150+ seats who present work. www.artscouncil.org.uk/research-and...

It's #OpportunitiesAvalanche time 1) Staging The Intimate - Workshop by Podiumkunsten A workshop that looks at essential strategies for developing sustainable & consent-informed practices in performing arts 17/3 Brussels Free Language = English & Dutch www.podiumkunsten.be/opleidingen/...

Staging the intimate, an introduction to consent-informed practices (workshop 1) | Podiumkunsten

In deze workshop richten we ons op praktische benaderingen om intieme inhoud te navigeren, tools die persoonlijke autonomie respecteren en de fysieke en emotionele integriteit van iedere artiest centr...

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It's #OpportunitiesAvalanche time 1) Staging The Intimate - Workshop by Podiumkunsten A workshop that looks at essential strategies for developing sustainable & consent-informed practices in performing arts 17/3 Brussels Free Language = English & Dutch www.podiumkunsten.be/opleidingen/...

Staging the intimate, an introduction to consent-informed practices (workshop 1) | Podiumkunsten

In deze workshop richten we ons op praktische benaderingen om intieme inhoud te navigeren, tools die persoonlijke autonomie respecteren en de fysieke en emotionele integriteit van iedere artiest centr...

podiumkunsten.be

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

If you're a Producer, Agent or Manager working in the Performing Arts in Europe, I would REALLY recommend you sign up to the PAMPA mailing list before this Friday as we have a glorious opportunity incoming. #TheatreSky #DanceSky www.pampa-network.org/home

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

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

Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) International Writing Residency - Theatre for Young People 4-week residency at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, access to an apartment, travel budget of 10 000 SEK, dramaturg & actors for a final reading. d/l 21/1 ledigajobb.dramaten.se/jobs/5362800...

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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 www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

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.

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

Hello 2025. Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow at @harvard.edu USA Conduct original research on the collection of works by Nam June Paik. $60k p.a. + travel budget Applications reviewed - rolling basis from 27/1/2025 sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Hello 2025. Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow at @harvard.edu USA Conduct original research on the collection of works by Nam June Paik. $60k p.a. + travel budget Applications reviewed - rolling basis from 27/1/2025 sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

The #OpportunitiesAvalanche will return next week. However, one of the things I'm loving about @bsky.app is the discovery of so many incredible people (mainly new to me) who're writing/creating in their specialist areas of interest with so much love, detail & expertise. Here's 10 to start with...

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.

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 little Christmas day cloud inversion from Waun Fach looking towards Pen Y Fan. #TheBlackMountains

Welcome to the latest #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Indigenous Artists Residency - Dance Jårrh! is a 2-4 week, paid artist residency for Indigenous artists worldwide who work with choreography, set in the Sámi cultural landscape of Dearna, Sweden d/l 26/1/25 riksteatern.varbi.com/en/what:regi...

Open call: Jårrh!

Jårrh! is an artist residency for Indigenous artists worldwide who work with choreography and movement. We offer you time and space to develop your ideas and practice within a collaborative environme

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A trip to @houseofcommons.parliament.uk for an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social reception hearing from @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social, Sophie Willan & Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Some incoming priorities look like post-industrial towns, hyper local decision making (not metro mayor level) & representation.

Some thoughts on the performances & ableism on show at the 2024 edition of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. A rarefied, eight-course, Michelin Star choreographic tasting menu with some of best (& worst) performances I’ve ever audienced. #DanceSky www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian...

Ian Abbott at the KFDA (Kunstenfestivaldesarts)

On his first visit to the KFDA (Kunstenfestivaldesarts) in Brussels, Ian Abbott discusses the festival itself and some of the works he saw.

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A little trip to the National Theatre this afternoon to see Inua Ellams win the Alfred Fagon Award for his new play Once Upon a Time in Sokoto (which had a cracking read through directed by Brigette Adela) and Ilayda McIntosh win the Mustapha Matura Award for her play Hummingbird. #TheatreSky

Welcome to the latest #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Bucharest Dance Hack - April 7-11, 2025, They seek 5 participants to work towards ways of blending the moving human body & technology. Paid €2000 + slow travel reimbursement + pds + accommodation. d/l 31/12 dancehack.eu/developing-a...

💡Touring performing arts in England. @artscouncilengland.bsky.social have engaged The Audience Agency (a contract worth £50k-£100k) to conduct a study of the touring of theatre, dance, music & combined arts to indoor venues with 150+ seats who present work. www.artscouncil.org.uk/research-and...

Touring Research 2024

Learn more about our 2024 major research study of the touring of theatre, dance, music and combined arts activities.

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