We were delighted to catch up with Jenny Sealey this week and shoot her 2nd film for Push Me. The Garden’s writer Alex Bulmer has been busy reworking the script for The Garden (as Jenny works on the Opening Ceremony for the Paralympic Games) for its revival at The Southbank for the Unlimited Festival. Alex [...]
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 [...]
Artist Sue Austin has spent much of this week in a pool with her team in the fine company of choreographer, Adam Benjamin. Adam has agreed to mentor Sue as she makes moves to create yet more spectacle for audiences to enjoy underwater at the end of this month in Portland, Dorset. Adam Benjamin broke [...]
We never need much of an excuse to clock in with artist Bobby Baker for a catch up chat and this morning, we did just that. (If you haven’t had a peek at Bobby’s first 90 second Push Me film, fresh on The Space, then catch it now.) Since our Push Me filming of Mad [...]
We were delighted to catch up with Laurence Clark just before he delivers his final preview of Inspired tonight at the Brockjack Theatre in South East London. His close to the bone rollercoaster ride with video film and slides is delighting everyone who sees it. It is inspired but not in the way you might [...]
PUSH ME thought it time to catch up with multi talented Rachel Gadsden as she builds a different side of her project for the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank in rehearsals with a new collaborative team. The boundaries of Rachel’s artistic practice are once again being stretched as she pushes herself into an altogether performative [...]
Well the time has finally come to introduce the people working behind the lenses in the PUSH ME team. Introducing our Director John Durrant of BDH (on the left). As recipients of BAFTA, D&AD, Royal Television Society Awards, and Grammy and Emmy nominated work, BDH have, for over 10 years, directed commercials, created brand identities, [...]
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 [...]
It was a real pleasure to be in the room as part of the press launch for the Unlimited Festival today with 3 of our Push Me for 90 second films. The Push Me team have been busy filming, editing and blogging over the last few months and our artists have been eagerly awaiting for [...]
The Push Me team got so much more than tea and sympathy with artist Bobby Baker in Sheffield yesterday, we got bourbons and custard creams, the sort of biscuits that are part of the fabric of our daily lives and a whole lot more besides. The 2 performances of Mad Gyms and Kitchens were shown [...]
Last Wednesday 27th June, Sue Austin made a spectacle of herself in the best way possible at Creating the Spectacle 1 – ‘The Mouth of the Fleet Lagoon’ in Portland, Dorset, as part of her Unlimited Commission for Festival 2012. Designed as ‘an experience’ rather than a performance , the hundred or so local people [...]
He’s so funny that Laurence Clark and his Inspired show last night at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff as part of the fabulous Hijinx Unity Festival programme took his unique combination of wry sardonic humour to the parts that other comedians fail to reach. Not only that, there were several threads of narrative within this very [...]
Just over 24 hours to go until Sue Austin becomes a delicious drop in the ocean in her first public London Festival 2012 performance, Creating the Spectacle! Part 1: The Mouth of the Fleet Lagoon. The performance with local school children and a lucky handful of stewards will start at 12 noon in Portland, Dorset [...]
Nigel Hinds, Creative Producer of the Cultural Olympiad at London 2012 described Rachel Gadsden’s extraordinary body of work as ‘a revelation’ at its opening last Friday 22nd June in Cambridge. The Unlimited Global Alchemy premiere is one of the first of many events in the Festival 2012 calendar that will showcase our 12 artists on [...]
Caroline Bowditch’s Unlimited commission Leaving Limbo Landing is scheduled to go back into rehearsal soon ready for the first showing of the piece at East London Big Dance on the 7th July. The PUSH ME team first met Caroline in May, rehearsing her dancers in East London. Caroline is not new to choreography but [...]