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Claire Keane
Cosmic Funnies
Love Begins
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Keni
we're not kids anymore.
Kaledo Art
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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What actually happens at a travel press junket? 90 journalists, 200+ attendees, 15-minute speed-dates with destination reps from Antigua to Tunisia, and Chester Zoo's status as the UK's most visited attraction outside London repeated until journalists mouthed it in unison. I got published pieces, upcoming trips and connections I'd never have made in London. Media Getaway moves elswehere in 2026. Here's how the sausage gets made.
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Exploring William Stok's Transformative Leaf Art
I’ve seen exhibitions of William Stok’s leaf studies years ago. Informed by the pandemic and the climate emergency they’ve grown. Now three-odd meters high, they fill the space. The scale shift tracks something real. You can’t get distance on these. The room’s too full, the paintings too big. I wanted to lie on the floor in the centre to take them all in properly, but there were too many people…
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Alison Chaplin Career Retrospective: Life as a laboratory
A walk in the woods, painting (c) Alison Chaplin I’ve spent 8-10 years admiring Chaplin’s depiction of forests so it was reassuring that the retrospective tells the same story. Portraits, landscapes, forests, interiors. They’re different subjects but the same investigation. It’s in how she handles space, how light cuts through, how shadows hold form and how patterns repeat and break. It’s…
The Power of Movement Without Sound: Jan Martens' Work
It took me longer than normal to write this, because I had to think it through more than I normally would. Not the dancing – that was immediate, sometimes visceral and always intellectual. But what Jan Martens achieved, and whether I agreed with it. The stated premise is ambitious. 13 forgotten female voices reclaimed from patriarchal silence (by a man, but let’s let that pass). Ruby Elzy’s 1935…
Signal to Noise by Forced Entertainment; an excoriating commentary
Belajelijk is a Dutch word. It means ridiculous but somehow hints of truth. Someone might say that something’s a ‘belachelijke concusie, maar ze is waar’ (a ridiculous conclusion, but it’s true). And belajelijk’s the best word to summarise ‘Signal to Noise’ as the performers matched their bodies and energies to those of pre-recorded voices created using AI text-to-speech software. It took me a…
Cucumber Sci-Fi
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Black Sabbath the Ballet - brief review
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Stand-Up Jim, but not as we know it
An interactive wine tasting, comedy, travelogue performance.. with photos. Did I mention wine?
An interactive wine tasting, comedy, travelogue performance.. with photos. Did I mention wine? I’ve started something new. The first sold out before I had a chance to tell my friends. I’m doing the second in October. It combines my experience in the performing arts with my photography, my travel writing, my need for adventure and the course in wines I did at WSET (the Wines and Spirits Education…
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12 crimes in which cat fur has been used as forensic evidence, a ChatGPT Procrastination
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Like everyone (it seems), I’ve been playing around with generative AI. Today’s results made me smile, so I’m sharing. I have left it as spawned, having spent enough time procrastinating today. “While cat fur may not commonly be used as a specific forensic evidence in crimes, there have been instances where it played a role in investigations. Here are 12 examples…
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O Medea, Trajal Harrell
O Medea, Trajall Harrell (c) unknown Trajall Harrell is one of my three favourite choreographers. I love his work. I love it as it feels in the moment. His layering, level of detail, lyricism and patterning are frankly awesome. But I love it most for what it teaches me. I’ll see the same work three or four times if possible. Each visit reveals different aspects and referents, makes me question…
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Salsa & Bachata: From Zero to Hero in the Canary Islands
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Israel Galván's La Consagración de la Primavera
by Yoana Kostadinova Israel Galván is a Universe. He is a masterpiece. A ticket to watch him perform is a ticket right into your heart. That’s because Galván will take you through a 1 hour 10 minute voyage of delirium. An indelible experience that will mark you for life. Truly a rite “La Consagración de la Primavera (Rite of Spring)” is a rite. Like it says on the packet. A rite of spring of…
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Decision Day
Sending love and strength to all those who failed in their bids to remain or become NPOs and IPSOs today, and huge congratulations to those who have maintained their status or just achieved it. The fight for fair funding in the arts continues. You’ll hear more from me, starting early next year, on alternative and collaborative routes to sustainable funding, as DanceGRiST’s pilot projects go…
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022
It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of the Queen. We join the nation in recognising her life and achievements, while mourning her loss.
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Why I use Agile Scrum throughout DanceGRiST
Why I use Agile Scrum throughout DanceGRiST
Carole Edrich presenting at the RSA, photograph (c) Pete Jenkins. This post outlines why I use Agile Scrum throughout DanceGRiST, an organisation comprised of creative freelancers. I have written it so that everyone gets the same introduction to the ideas and approach I use, along with its value for DanceGRiST, for our creative freelance members, for our clients and other stakeholders. So what…
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No Faulting Fawlty?
Tonia Myers and Sybil, played by member of the cast (c) Tonia Myers 2022 Just the mention of Fawlty Towers brings an involuntary smile to my face. I’m immediately transported back to the late 70s sitting round the TV with the whole family splitting our sides and cringing over Basil Fawlty’s escapades. Surely he is not going to …. Oh no …. yes he is!!! It was easy to persuade my husband and two…
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Frédéric Gassita: Creative Process, Balance and Labels
Frédéric Gassita: Creative Process, Balance and Labels
Frédéric Gassita, image (c) Frédéric Gassita, no photographer credits given Super-achiever, artist, footballer and co-founder of Libreville’s African Music Institute, Frédéric Gassita brings his Bantu Jazz Orchestra to London next weekend. I spoke to him about his life, his creative process and works. Frédéric Gassita, Creative Process CE- I am interested in the ‘hows’ of your creative…
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