And today is International Day of Persons with Disability (not our choice of words, but we’re not arguing with the United Nations). As they say: Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical [...]
Creating a piece always raises questions for any artist. Caroline Bowditch ponders on some of the biggest whilst her beautiful , evocative work plays out. And just where does she go from here? There’s no retreating now. Watch Caroline Bowditch musing on the creation of Leaving Limbo Landing. Does it tell the story she wants [...]
Our PUSH ME documentary is coming to Bradford! Yup – you don’t have to sit and watch it on your little computer screen – you can watch it in full beautiful enormous loveliness at the National Media Museum in Bradford on the 3rd December – as part of International Day of People with Disability. It’s [...]
It’s all kicking off today – Total Permission, our 30 minute documentary on the Unlimited Projects is up in The Space – AND the documentary and the PUSH ME project are one of Arts Council England’s new case studies celebrating 18 years of lottery funding and showcasing just what lottery cash can do.
What’s happening inside the belly of 3 Mills Studios? A brilliant choreographer putting her movement on the dancers. Go check out The Space and see 90 seconds of an epic production finding its feet. Leaving Limbo Landing is an ambitious new outdoor production by Caroline Bowditch performed in air, in water and on land exploring [...]
We aren’t the only ones counting down – Watershed, the executive producers of PUSH ME are also on a roll, showing one PUSH ME short a day too until 2nd Dec and then hosting the cinema premiere of the documentary Total Permission at their base in Bristol.
Fantastic to see PUSH ME’s Claire Cunningham and Caroline Bowditch alongside Marc Brew featured in this great blog by Kelly Apter at the scotsman.com. Shows such as Ménage à Trois not only give the younger generation of disabled dancers something to aim for, they play a crucial role in helping audiences to see beyond the [...]
We were delighted to hear in The Guardian earlier this week that The Space and our PUSH ME films will now have an afterlife beyond the original designate 31st October deadline for the pilot project. We are currently negotiating how this will effect how and in what way we are able to show our PUSH [...]
Yesterday we were delighted to see our 2nd set of PUSH ME films grow in The Space to four. Bobby Baker, Laurence Clark and Sue Austin join Rachel Gadsden in Push Me Collection – The Journey. With another eight to be uploaded by The Space, we thought it would be timely to share with you [...]
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 [...]
We have spent much of the weekend bumping into our Push Me artists out there promoting their work and in repose, soaking up the atmosphere of this extraordinary week for disabled people everywhere. The Southbank is awash with people enjoying not only the rich feast that the Unlimited Festival has brought to the capital but the [...]
It is with immense pride (and quite a bit of sweat) we can finally announce that all our 12 PUSH ME artists now have their first 90 second films in The Space!
Many of us are now tapping into Jon Snow’s C4 Paralympic show as he builds GB excitement and connection with the Paralympic Games but being disabled doesn’t mean you have to enjoy watching or playing sport, does it? Hell no! So says our very own Push Me comedian Laurence Clark and runner up in the [...]
Catching up with Caroline Bowditch last week after her altogether more urban showcase as part of Merchant City Festival in Glasgow, I asked her how Leaving Limbo Landing had faired in such a different setting in contrast to the Big Dance performances in lush waterlogged London Fields. There is something very beautiful about wet footprints [...]
We are still asking ourselves how Caroline Bowditch on the morning of the premiere of her new and most ambitious work to date in the face of the torrential rain forecast managed to be so utterly composed at our early morning Push Me shoot. Her composition Leaving Limbo Landing last Saturday 7th July, supported by [...]