Here's a new interview in The End of Dance series, this time with Tamsin Fitzgerald of 2Faced Dance Company from Hereford. She talks about ending a choreography, losing Arts Council England NPO funding & a 25 year company retrospective. Photo by Emma Drabble www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

Who is doing interesting thinking/research about AI, disability & environmental impact? One of the tensions I'm grappling with is e.g. visually impaired people use assistive technology/apps which have AI at their centre & make their journey through our ableist world easier. Links/humans welcome.

Today marks the 10 year anniversary since I've been writing about dance for Writing About Dance. I get all smooshy reflecting on the importance of independent media platforms, dances encountered & an acknowledgement of Nicholas Minns (founder/editor). #DanceSky www.linkedin.com/posts/itabbo...?

Here's the latest in my new series The End of Dance & it features Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé from Montreal. Spicey talks about working in 10 year cycles, her company Ebnflōh, her influence on Street Dance, ending work relationships & vulnerability. #DanceSky www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

Welcome to your #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) Space 2 Create Commission - East London Dance £11,000, 4 weeks of studio time, producing & marketing support for an artist from Hip Hop dance, South Asian or African dance practices. #DanceSky d/l 17/3 www.eastlondondance.org/opportunitie...

Welcome to your #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) Space 2 Create Commission - East London Dance £11,000, 4 weeks of studio time, producing & marketing support for an artist from Hip Hop dance, South Asian or African dance practices. #DanceSky d/l 17/3 www.eastlondondance.org/opportunitie...

The 2025 #DigitalCultureAwards shortlist has landed & @extantltd.bsky.social are chuffed to be recognised in the Digital Inclusion category for our audio drama Unseen. The entire Unseen creative team (20+ people) were visually impaired inc. cast, writers, sound designer, script editor & director.

6 weeks later and we now have a summary, written by The Audience Agency, of the 2 x 2hour events looking into touring in England. My personal response from the first session is in the skeet string below; here's a few quotes from the official pdf summary (which is screen reader unfriendly).

It's #OpportunitiesAvalanche time 1) Staging The Intimate - Workshop by Podiumkunsten A workshop that looks at essential strategies for developing sustainable & consent-informed practices in performing arts 17/3 Brussels Free Language = English & Dutch www.podiumkunsten.be/opleidingen/...

It's #OpportunitiesAvalanche time 1) Staging The Intimate - Workshop by Podiumkunsten A workshop that looks at essential strategies for developing sustainable & consent-informed practices in performing arts 17/3 Brussels Free Language = English & Dutch www.podiumkunsten.be/opleidingen/...

A little moment of UK dance history happened in Bristol last night. Impermanence opened their new theatre - The Mount Without - with performances from Seeta Patel Dance, Mark Bruce Company, Owen Ridley-Demonick and Impermanence (who performed an homage to the late David Lynch). #dancesky

If you're a Producer, Agent or Manager working in the Performing Arts in Europe, I would REALLY recommend you sign up to the PAMPA mailing list before this Friday as we have a glorious opportunity incoming. #TheatreSky #DanceSky www.pampa-network.org/home

1) The Jakkai Siributr exhibition at The Whitworth (closing 16/3/2025) is a stunner. #There'sNoPlace creates lush, textural, narrative-rich handmade embroideries, quilts and textile installations in response to the religious, political & societal issues in Thailand, inc. this from his work 2018

1) The #BarbaraWalker exhibition at The Whitworth (closing 26/1/25), Manchester is extraordinary. It's unfathomable* that #BeingHere is the first survey of this brilliant artist. With 70+ works spanning different cycles of practice inc. this from Turner Prize nommed Burden of Proof. *see racism

Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) International Writing Residency - Theatre for Young People 4-week residency at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, access to an apartment, travel budget of 10 000 SEK, dramaturg & actors for a final reading. d/l 21/1 ledigajobb.dramaten.se/jobs/5362800...

The End of Dance - a new series of texts that examines endings in dance & creates space for the aftermath & impact. Featuring long form interviews & essays it offers a reflective space for people to evaluate & see how their dust has settled. #DanceSky www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

WAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLLLL. What an experience at the Welland Wassail. It was time to wake the trees, feed the robins cider soaked toast at the mother tree and meet the green man. Wassailing is about scaring away the evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of apples in autumn.

I felt like I was decomposing in my seat like Rekha. Rekhachitram felt loooooooong. A rudimentary police procedural with AI recreating a 73 year old Mammootty into his mid 30s heartthrob era as they attempt to blend fact/fiction & discover a murder on the 1985 film set of Kathodu Kathoram. #FilmSky

Hello 2025. Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow at @harvard.edu USA Conduct original research on the collection of works by Nam June Paik. $60k p.a. + travel budget Applications reviewed - rolling basis from 27/1/2025 sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Hello 2025. Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow at @harvard.edu USA Conduct original research on the collection of works by Nam June Paik. $60k p.a. + travel budget Applications reviewed - rolling basis from 27/1/2025 sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

The #OpportunitiesAvalanche will return next week. However, one of the things I'm loving about @bsky.app is the discovery of so many incredible people (mainly new to me) who're writing/creating in their specialist areas of interest with so much love, detail & expertise. Here's 10 to start with...

2025. More of this please. Worms Head showing off AGAIN. The Gower Peninsular was the first place in GB to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956...which is 70 years next year. Plenty of satisfying hand scrambles to cross the tidal causeways and reach the top of the worm.

My Top 12 Films in 2024. Over 100 trips to the cinema (mainly due to Odeon MyLimitless) + a dozen streamed films. The Boy and The Heron, The Substance and Perfect Days are on the podium. Watched about a dozen Malayalam + Telugu films and definitely want to see more in 2025. #FilmSky

A little Christmas day cloud inversion from Waun Fach looking towards Pen Y Fan. #TheBlackMountains

Welcome to the latest #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Indigenous Artists Residency - Dance Jårrh! is a 2-4 week, paid artist residency for Indigenous artists worldwide who work with choreography, set in the Sámi cultural landscape of Dearna, Sweden d/l 26/1/25 riksteatern.varbi.com/en/what:regi...

A trip to @houseofcommons.parliament.uk for an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social reception hearing from @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social, Sophie Willan & Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Some incoming priorities look like post-industrial towns, hyper local decision making (not metro mayor level) & representation.

Some thoughts on the performances & ableism on show at the 2024 edition of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. A rarefied, eight-course, Michelin Star choreographic tasting menu with some of best (& worst) performances I’ve ever audienced. #DanceSky www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian...

A little trip to the National Theatre this afternoon to see Inua Ellams win the Alfred Fagon Award for his new play Once Upon a Time in Sokoto (which had a cracking read through directed by Brigette Adela) and Ilayda McIntosh win the Mustapha Matura Award for her play Hummingbird. #TheatreSky

Welcome to the latest #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Bucharest Dance Hack - April 7-11, 2025, They seek 5 participants to work towards ways of blending the moving human body & technology. Paid €2000 + slow travel reimbursement + pds + accommodation. d/l 31/12 dancehack.eu/developing-a...

💡Touring performing arts in England. @artscouncilengland.bsky.social have engaged The Audience Agency (a contract worth £50k-£100k) to conduct a study of the touring of theatre, dance, music & combined arts to indoor venues with 150+ seats who present work. www.artscouncil.org.uk/research-and...

1/ Nestled lovingly alongside The GIF Reviews is my writing. Here's some responses to my writing and analysis of the 2024 Made in Scotland showcase and a focus on works from Scotland. "Insightful and rip snorting salvos...balanced nicely with expertise and genuine respect when due for artists."

Pushpa 2: The Rule opened worldwide yesterday, breaking box office records in India. It's a 3hr 20 epic with a riot of scale, fight sequences & choreography I've not seen before. Written/directed by Sukumar, feat. Allu Arjun & Fahadh Faasil. #CooliesRise #FilmSky youtu.be/1kVK0MZlbI4?...

As part of the long hello and re-introduction here on bluesky, this (alongside the writing about dance) is another side of me. Introducing the GIF review. Songs of the Wayfarer by Claire Cunningham at Budascoop (part of the Next Festival), Kortrijk, Belgium thegifreview.tumblr.com/post/7689819...

Here's the latest Opportunities Avalanche 1/ The Baobab Community Fund A £3m fund dedicated to resourcing UK based Black African/Caribbean & Global Majority individuals, organisations & collectives to dismantle systems of oppression. d/l 3/2/25 www.baobabfoundation.org.uk/baobab-commu...

One of the things I'm loving about @bsky.app is discovering so many brilliant communities of interest who're sharing their knowledge. @cartivist.bsky.social posted this incredible illustrated map of London written on a glove, so if you're interested in maps or archives - follow Andrew.

No Dramas are free theatre workshops for blind & visually impaired adults, delivered by @extantltd.bsky.social. Next sessions: London - BAC, 6-8pm, 3rd Dec & 6th Jan Hereford - Courtyard, 2-4pm, 3rd Dec & 7th Jan Online - 6-8pm, 12th Dec & 9th Jan extant.org.uk/participatio... #theatresky

If you're a UK based theatre producer or interested in such things, the brilliant @bobbyharding.bsky.social has put together a starter pack of independent & affiliated UK Theatre Producers. I'm in it alongside many wonderful peers who make the world go round. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Musical highlight of a recent trip to PAMS (Performing Arts Market in Seoul) was this concert - A Funky Night With Guardian Spirits by CHUDAHYE CHAGIS. A psychedelic, funk, shamanic, Hip Hop band with a hugely charismatic lead singer. chudahyechagis.bandcamp.com/album/undern...

Something I used to do in the old little blue bird world was put together a list of opportunities, commissions, funding, jobs and other things of note which had a relevance to those working in dance, theatre and the performing arts. Feels like the right time to reignite it. Bumper issue to kick off

Ink Cypher - In Print is an exquisitely designed, limited edition, Hip Hop dance newspaper featuring 55 commissioned texts. +++ A centre fold poster and an exclusive introductory essay I wrote 'The Biters: AI, Remixing and Hip Hop Dance' www.hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-i...

Reintroducing this interactive text adventure, made using Twine, for the Blue Skyers. Remixing Criticism - my robust and text based interactive critique of Hip Hop, dance, theatre, criticism, institutional power and the erasure of women in the UK. thegeometrician.itch.io/remixing-cri...

Stoked to have Tafsila Khan joining the Extant team next month. She will be the second visually impaired Trainee Artistic Director to be part of Extant. We continue to create opportunities for incredible VI folks... & the next opp is coming soon. extant.org.uk/announcing-o... Photo: Jorge Lizalde

Show Me Your Nationalisms - a deep/critical dive into some of the dance works presented at the Made in Scotland 2024 showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. +++ Funding tomfoolery by Angus Robertson, Scot Gov and Creative Scotland. www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian... Photo by Sally Jubb

What is the most unexpected thing you've found on a beach? I'll start. 2 seaweed eating cows. Balnakeil Bay, Scotland.

Whilst there's plenty of blue skies out of shot, the sun and shadows were dappling on the grasses of Bannau Brycheiniog. As it's the start of Nan Shepherd season, I thought I'd get out early doors to walk a slight variation of the four peak (Fan-Y-Big, Cribyn, Pen-Y-Fan & Corn-Du) horseshoe walk.

'Kingfisher with Minnow' by Walenty Pytel was unveiled by the artist on 11th July 2019 (the 50th anniversary of his first major sculpture) and commissioned by the Museum of Cider, Hereford. There's plenty of his other works across Herefordshire including the Malvern Buzzards in Great Malvern.

The sharp edged, grey geometry of Taipei Performing Arts Centre in Taiwan...a stark contrast to their external vending machine where you could buy plastic, primary coloured sculpted key rings emblazoned with the company logo.

The collection of blue skies for this blue sky continues. This one is from a trip to Japan earlier in the month at a railway station near Yokohama. One of the joys in Japan is that each station has its own personalised (almost 8-bit) jingle which is played when a train enters the station.

It was a twin peak kinda day in Bukhansan National Park, Korea. Here's the view from Yeongbong peak (604m) looking out towards where I was heading - Baegundae peak (836.5m). The pine needle scent was delicious, but I was more than a little surprised to encounter cats at the top of both mountains.

A little trip back to Dartington, Devon - it was here I learned to bind books with the brilliant Mary Bartlett - where the winter sun was licking the huge swamp cypress in the Dartington Hall courtyard as the craft fair was in full bloom.