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23 March 2023

This is BirdGang

Interview

The launch of Croydon’s London Borough of Culture is just over a week away, so we are continuing our chats with creative organisations involved with the programme. Here we catch up with Kendra Horsburgh, who is the Managing Direct...

15 March 2023

Croydon London Borough of Culture programme revealed

Article

Talawa theatre company is to feature in Croydon’s London Borough of Culture 2023 programme with a theatre show inspired by composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

14 March 2023

Londonist: Croydon Officially Launches As Borough Of Culture...

Feature

Croydon has launched its year as Borough of Culture 2023 — at an event at Boxpark this morning (14 March) — to the strains of a segment from 'Oratorio of Hope', a new commission performed by the London Mozart Players.

31 October 2022

One Dance UK awards 2022: winners in full

Feature

Chief executive officer of One Dance UK, Andrew Hurst, said: “We are delighted to recognise the hard work and talent of people making a difference to the dance sector. These awards acknowledge some of the many areas of work that p...

18 September 2022

Vache Baroque Festival 2022 Review: La Descente d’Orphée Aux...

Review

The heart of the presentation relied on strong contrasts, not just in their colouring, but also in the costuming and movement of the singers, and the dancing of the BirdGang Ltd Dancers, choreographed by Simeon Qsyea. Act one, at...

2 September 2022

Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers charms at the...

Review

The myth of Orpheus and Euridice is dramatically and symbolically tailor-made for opera, so it’s no wonder that so many composers have been inspired by Ovid’s tale, with its fatal snakebite, journey to the Underworld, and musician...

17 August 2022

A Different way to Dance - Hatchwork, by Birdgang Ltd

Feature

Art is subjective, whatever the discipline; the art, the subjectivity influenced by feelings, desires, morals, personal experience, opinions, all borne from a perceptive interpretation of the world.

17 August 2022

News: Avant-garde movement meets traditional Baroque dance m...

Feature

The Vache Baroque Festival is back for its third summer offering, having launched during the pandemic to bring world-class Baroque music to The Chilterns AONB. Following a collaboration in 2020, hip hop dance theatre and UK creati...

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