Claire Cunningham is famous for dancing on crutches, but where did the idea to utilize the creative potential of crutches within dance come from? For Claire it began when she was awarded a Creative Scotland Award in 2006, which enabled her to investigate her own movement potential. She was mentored by
US performance artist Bill [...]
This is Simon Mckeown watching his 11 metre high inflatable figure go up – he’s seen it up before in Oxford, and seen parts inflate in the factory in which it was made, but he’s never seen it, well, go up before!
In 2005, Janice Parker received a Creative Scotland Award from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to spend a year exploring new depths within her work and creating new points of departure. The plan was to immerse herself practically in the creative process of making work – starting points, end points, motivations and possibilities. [...]
Thought it might be useful to look at some of the influences on our PUSH ME artists – to look at where their work sits and what it can be compared to. It’s always going to be a subjective take, as we all read different things into the work that we see, and gain impact [...]
A number of the fantastic artists involved with PUSH ME are pushing their stuff out there this month in the lead up to September’s big showcase at the Southbank. We’ve been hard at work reading and collating some of the reviews of the on Disability Arts Online so you can find them all in one [...]
“The Space is a new and exciting way to experience the arts at a time when there is a wealth of arts activity during the Cultural Olympiad. Push Me profiles our Unlimited projects for Deaf and disabled artists and provides an excellent opportunity for people all over the world to see the fantastic range of [...]
Extraordinary. Unlimited. In 90 seconds. If you go to Arts Council England and BBC’s The Space today – you’ll see that PUSH ME is currently on the front page with our 90 second feature on Jez Colborne. We are delighted to be there! So first, push this lot for 90 seconds… Dive deep with Sue Austin and ‘Creating The Spectacle!’ [...]
Laurence Clark’s show, as we know, is about inspiration – particularly why disabled people are so often seen as inspirational when they undertake rather mundane things. He’s not the only one out there wondering about this. A recent blog by Stella Young from The Australia Broadcasting Corporation focuses on the growing phenomenon she refers to [...]
Even last minute changes to our travel plans couldn’t diminish the fantastic footage that we were able to shoot at the dress rehearsal for Private Dancer’s 2012 incarnation at The Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow on Thursday last week. As well as filming at the dress rehearsal, I stayed up to take part in [...]
“If we get the festival right, people will remember 2012 not just for amazing sport, but for unforgettable art as well.” So says London 2012 Festival Director Ruth Mackenzie in the hot-off-the-press official guide to the London 2012 Festival – and we agree, especially in relation to our artists!
The Unity Festival is featuring the Unlimited Commissions of a number of artists and companies including some of those within PUSH ME. Hijinx Theatre’s Unity Festival is Wales’ international inclusive arts festival, now in its fifth year. There is a great programme of comedy, theatre, children’s shows, dance, cabaret, street theatre, music, workshops, talks and [...]
Jez Colborne is anxiously watching the weather – at the end of this week Irresistible, the show he developed with Mind the Gap, finally reaches its Yorkshire peak - a symphony of sirens set within the rural beauty of Ilkley Moor. It’s a large-scale musical experience that combines warning sirens and choral music with projections on rock faces [...]
Nearly there with our links to the essays about the Creative Case on Arts Council England’s website hosted by Disability Arts Online. This time we are pointing you to one in which Laurence Clark spearheads – You’ve got to Laugh, an essay on disability and humour.
We wanted to pass on the link to a fantastic interview with Mish Weaver by Jo Childs for Run Riot. Called ‘Circus meets the Mind’, it really gets to the heart of Mish’s work on bipolar circus and the reasons behind the creation of Box of Frogs, her Unlimited Commission that we feature in [...]
A few more links for you from the Arts Council’s Creative Case site (hosted by Disability Arts Online) – where the essays presented link to the work of our amazing PUSH ME artists. This time it’s the turn of Caroline Bowditch and Sue Austin. Caroline Bowditch’s former work with Scottish Dance Theatre as Dance Agent [...]