This year’s award nominations are impressively diverse,with excellent independents vying with the titans of British dance, and fiftysomething dancers getting recognitionLife for independent dance artists is getting harder, or as funding cuts bite deeper,rents for rehearsal space rise and regional theatres reduce their programmes. Yet one of the outstanding features of this year’s National Dance Awards, whose nominations acquire just been announced, and has been the heroic strength and variety of the work coming from the independent sector: ranging from Ben Duke’s epic,comical dialogue with Milton’s Paradise Lost to the Canadian ice skating ensemble Le Patin Libre. Related: Keep dancing: the ballet stars leaping through the age barrier Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com