Did you catch this one too? Amazing physical theatre skills, amazing ariel skills – all in all an amazing piece. Suspended high in the air on ropes, Ramesh Meyyappan talks about his latest production, Skewered Snails – the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family powerfully told through his extensive and imaginative physicality, and that [...]
Remember this one? Beautiful movement captured beautifully. Claire Cunningham turns her crutches in to exquisite partners in her darkly humorous and deeply personal portrait, Ménage à Trois. This film is a taster, atmospherically exposing her signature movement skills in a dim underground basement of The Arches, Glasgow. Go on. It’s only 90 seconds (you’ve got [...]
Today we start our pre-advent countdown – always keen to get in ahead of the game. We have 24 short films and we have 24 days until United Nations International Day of People with Disability. Makes sense then to profile one short film a day, each day up until 2nd Dec – and what about on [...]
Sue Austin’s underwater wheelchair has made it onto one of VSauce’s popular ‘Mind Blows’ an online collection of scientific and unusual items. It’s it the collection here - about 3 minutes in. Trust me its worth watching all of it, if just to also see whale poop!
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. [...]
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 [...]
So we left the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank with over 24 hours of footage shot, totalling one terrabyte of media – that’s the equivilient of all the X-ray films in a large technological hospital or 50,000 trees made into paper and printed! (Thanks James Huggins, for the comparisons). How does all that – plus all [...]
Each month, Arts Council England includes some feedback from its own staff about work they’ve seen – and this month they are talking about Unlimited – so for example, here’s what Lucy Murray, Relationship Manager, Theatre had to say about Mad Gyms and Kitchens by Bobby Baker:
Stumble danceCircus are now off on tour with Box of Frogs, and wherever they go they are attracting press interest. There is a great piece in the Yorkshire Post this week featuring Mish Weaver, founder of Stumble danceCircus and it really gets under her skin and the skin of the show.
It was easy at Southbank last week to get whipped up in a frenzy about all the fantastic performances taking place – but there was a huge amount of visual arts throughout the festival too, including work by PUSH ME artists Bobby Baker, Caroline Bowditch, Rachel Gadsden, Simon Mckeown and Sue Austin. In fact there [...]
Continuing our series of posts on various collaborators, this time our attention turns to Gail Sneddon – who has been working alongside Claire Cunningham for her piece Menage a Trois. Gail’s website states that she ‘makes performative work that brings an immersive and sensorial experience to the audience through the orchestration and design of different [...]
This blog was first published on Disability Arts Online. With their permission we are reprinting it here: In my commissioning role of gathering responses to Unlimited @ Southbank the performance that DAO writers have been most enthusiastic about seeing in their communications with me, has been Claire Cunningham’s ‘Ménage à Trois’. Watching the audio-described version [...]
Yesterday the PUSH ME team spent the day following Charles Hazelwood around the Southbank, getting his take on some of the Unlimited Commissions. Charles is an award winning conductor with a global presence. His own website explains his mission: The focus of his career is to share the power and passion of orchestral music with the widest [...]
Not many people get to stand on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall and have a camera on a crane fly at and past them – placing them in the centre of London’s iconic landmarks. Yesterday Jez Colborne had this experience as we filmed him for the PUSH ME documentary, winding his siren [...]
Great to be down at the Southbank and see so many of our PUSH ME artists sharing there work with wider audiences – and also with each other. Although we on the team know the artists and their work well – it’s easy to forget that they don’t know each other. It’s brilliant for PUSH [...]