Performing Arts
The art of teasing
Once a mixture of comic plays and bawdy humour, burlesque reeled the crowds in by showcasing women in stages of…
Fun, frocks and serious experience
Being a thespian is almost synonymous with being English. In fact the people of the UK are so consistently wild…
Artistic identity in an age of terror
Post 9/11 do Arab-American artists have to pick a side or can they use their heritage to inform new bodies…
Smorgasbord for the senses
As the place where the spinning jenny and the computer were invented, Manchester is often touted as the world’s first…
AIDS Awareness: A Dying Artform?
The start of the new millennium sees the AIDS pandemic enter its third decade. Tragically, the number of new infections…
The Art of Memory
It’s been five years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, where nearly 3,000…
A 'Design Tsar' for London?
Britain’s urban design has been a hot topic since architect Lord Rogers chaired a report in 1999 that concluded British…
Bring back the music ... without the hiss
Cutting edge audio technology allows old recordings by past masters to be stored for eternity and brought back to life…
Cause for alarmism?
Do powerful new measures introduced into British law with the Terrorism Act 2006, ostensibly to help the police and law…
The art of reinvention
Just what are the forces driving our obsession with the contemporary art of adaptation? For up until recently and historically,…