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 [...]
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!’ [...]
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 [...]
“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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
It feels a lifetime ago since our first Push Me shoot with Sue Austin in Portland, Dorset – on a chilly sunny April day when we first took a closer look at her Unlimited commission, Creating the Spectacle! At that time, we discovered that the exclamation mark was not just a flourish or a typo [...]
With PUSH ME we get to feature the work of some fabulous artists and companies. Want to know which ones? Then read on… We have Mish Weaver/Stumble Dance Circus with Box of Frogs giving us a poignant, original and funny exploration of passion and disappointment - a Bipolar Circus, a manically depressed form of entertainment (its their pic here), Bobby [...]