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Artist-run spaces enjoy the fun of the fairFriday, 14 October 2011
Whilst acknowledging the huge impact the Frieze Art Fair has made on the cultural landscape of the capital since its inception in 2003, the frenzied annual event definitely doesn’t float every art lover’s boat. With about 170 – mainly blue-chip... Read more... |
Cabaret New Burlesque - new arty raunch direct from ParisThursday, 13 October 2011
We know (we have the analytics) that quite a few TAD readers are not averse to a bit of arty burlesque – our candid interview with striptease artist Ursula Martinez was read by many thousands. The latest contenders in the burgeoning titillation... Read more... |
Beyoncé stole my moves, says high priestess of modern danceTuesday, 11 October 2011
Has the great pop diva Beyoncé plagiarised the great modern dance diva Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker? This is the burning question that has today sent disco popsters and fans of austere contemporary dance in a feverish crush to YouTube, comparing... Read more... |
Late run to preserve genius's worksMonday, 10 October 2011
Death concentrates the mind wonderfully, as they say. In the wake of the demise last week of Alexander Grant, who owned the choreographer Frederick Ashton's world-wide hit ballet La fille mal gardée, the Royal Ballet has announced that it is... Read more... |
British ballet's secret weapon, funny and dangerousThursday, 06 October 2011
You hear the names of the princes and romantic heroines in ballet, but the global success of 20th-century British ballet had much to do with its dramatic acuity and nuancing, the unexpected side characters who in the ballets of Ashton and MacMillan... Read more... |
Darondo and Disco Gold: Unearthed Funk and the Birth of DiscoMonday, 26 September 2011
By 1977, disco was a cliché to be mocked. But a few years earlier, before its ubiquity, disco was a liberating music uniting minorities on the dance floor. Funk, too, became a cliché, little more than a reductive musical cypher. Two new reissues... Read more... |
Paganini's DaemonThursday, 22 September 2011
Niccolò Paganini was the most controversial classical musician who ever lived. Although widely acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant performers of his lifetime, he provoked wildly contradictory opinions amongst his contemporaries and was... Read more... |
Nuclear star dancer Robert Parker leaps to head ballet schoolMonday, 19 September 2011
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s star Robert Parker has been a ballet dancer and a trainee pilot - and is now to become artistic director of Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, one of the two most important ballet schools in Britain.Known as “nuclear”... Read more... |
Go clubbing and running to support planting urban treesSunday, 11 September 2011
As artificial spaces, clubs struggle to embrace the organic environment. The music and arts collective Noise of Art are bridging the gap by working with the charity Trees for Cities, with DJs donating their time to raise funds for planting trees in... Read more... |
Peace dance! A call for more fancy footwork at the Rugby World CupFriday, 09 September 2011
We’ve long grown used to culturally themed opening ceremonies for big sporting events, but when New Zealand and Tonga come together this morning for the first match in the Rugby World Cup 2011, there won’t just be singing and dancing in the pre-... Read more... |
Farewell, Salvatore LicitraTuesday, 06 September 2011
The Swiss-born Sicilian tenor has died, far too young at the age of 43, 10 days after an accident on his Vespa. He was one of the best and most stylish of his rare breed, even if the scrummage to find an heir to Pavarotti sometimes pushed him into a... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Birthday Event - Join Us on 9/9!Sunday, 04 September 2011On 9 September theartsdesk, Britain's first professional arts journalism site, will be two years old. To celebrate we’re holding a live debate with four leading performers during the Kings Place Festival. An actor, a singer, a dancer and an... Read more... |
