Performing Arts – All Across the Arts

PLACE POETS IN POSITION TO HELP US: Write Out Loud

With the public’s help Write Out Loud wants to be equipped to enable, champion, inspire, and connect poets – and organisations and schools - no matter what happens during the pandemic, and continue that once it’s over.´

AATA, Performing Arts

EVITA revised, re-shaped, reformed

What a production this was, though, by a small provincial theatre company here on Lanzarote.

AATA, dance, Performing Arts

MIME, MIMICRY AND MUSIC by Michael Higgins

no English traditional dancing team had the same Romantic clout, or visible presence, as the black-faced, skirt wearing, clog dancing ‘Coco Nut Dancers’ of Bacup in Lancashire just to the north of Rochdale.

AATA, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry

PIGEON PLUCKERS & PUPPETS ON-LINE

the problem with a virtual choir is that no single member can hear what the others are singing.

AATA, guest writers, Literary, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry

THINGS WE FORGOT TO SHARE IN OCTOBER

Each of these art forms could survive without the other, but we seem to have found plenty of evidence of collaboration recently.

AATA, Literary, Performing Arts, Poetry

A BALM FOR THE PHILISTINES, OINTMENT FOR THE MIND by Michael Higgins

the upper room of the brightly lit Baum was thronged, or ´thrung´as one says in the dialect, overheated and loud.

AATA, cinema, Literary, Performing Arts

´I´VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU, MR. BOND´. St. Peter at the Gates.

Connery’s genius was to combine menace with a twinkling Celtic wit. His Bond was a loaded weapon. Yet there was a wryness to his performance that told you that both spy and actor were in on the joke.

AATA, Performing Arts, Poetry

THE BAUM REPORT by Michael Higgins

The Wedding At CAMRA paralleled St John’s Gospel somewhat but here a wedding party ends up with no cask ale. Faced with an evening on keg, the local Campaign For Real Ale branch rushes in to save the day for the groom with an eight handpump miracle.

AATA, Music, Performing Arts

NOT GOING OUT & NOT STAYING IN

So, I have of late been beavering away on face book seeking new contacts, fellow supporters of jazz, jazz clubs and jazz groups. I think post corona virus I have a readymade list of new music, places and friends to see.