STORIES IN DANCE
STORIES IN DANCE
By Norman Warwick
When I led a poetry night, for instance, to raise awareness of homelessness issues in our area, we collaborated with local artists. We collected the rhythmic skills of Pandemonium Percussion with the…
COLISEUM CONFRONTATION FOR COVID 19
COLISEUM CONFRONTATION FOR COVID 19
By Norman Warwick
Oldham Coliseum
Oldham Coliseum Theatre and commissioning partner HOME Manchester have commissioned Associate Artist Hafsah Aneela Bashir to create a project as part of the Homemakers…
INALA: A ZULU BALLET
INALA: A ZULU BALLET
By Norman Warwick
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
The a capella group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, were first put together by Joseph Shabalala in the early nineteen sixties and won the love of their national audience, before…
A BROADCAST FROM FRIENDS IN BERLIN
A BROADCAST FROM FRIENDS IN BERLIN
Natalija Nikolayeva (left) has been a good friend of this Sidetracks and Detours blog since we reviewed a concert of Romantic Souvenirs she played in Tias earlier this year with her musical partner,…
ARTS RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE
ARTS RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE
By Norman Warwick
Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo…
DRAMA STUDENTS SHOWCASE SKILLS ON LINE
THEATRE SCHOOL SHOWCASED ON LINE
Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and…
FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES by Michael Higgins
FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES
by Michael Higgins
Norman Warwick’s recent article on the University Of Leeds dialect survey (Sidetracks and Detours 30 April 2020) and his brief mention of my role (chairman) in the Edwin Waugh…
SUNBIRD SINGS of good news from Kimmie Rhodes
SUNBIRD SINGS of good news from Kimmie Rhodes
Not only have our Cabildo (government) seemed to handle the coronavirus situation over here pretty well but so, too, have the citizens of Lanzarote who have stayed away from the beaches and the…
LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE ! Romeo and Juliet come calling
LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE !
Romeo and Juliet come calling
There’s a bit of history between me and Romeo, to be honest, as this youth has let me down on more than one occasion.
Seventeen years ago, back in the UK when I was a fifty year…
MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRIBUTE TO MANRIQUE: review by Norman Warwick
César Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco.
Teatro Tias, March 2020 Review.
On
the evening Friday of 6th
March 2020
we had
decided that over this weekend, we would visit the first two of
several performance we had
previewed in a short…