... Adzido Sadler's Wells FROM relatively small beginnings Adzido has become the largest African dance company in Europe, with a 25-strong company on stage at Sadler's Wells for its latest production Siye Goli, which has a text by Odia Ofeimun which tells the story of the people of the southern half of Africa over the past 200 years and is directed by Stephen Unwin, working with a dance company ...

... Moana Nepia and Dancers THE PLACE NOTHING in Moana Nepia's programme in the Resolution season at The Place suggested that he had clarified for himself why it is dial a choreographer must choreograph. His four works carried no burning convictions, just a sense of looking back where others have already been. In Mahana, while Nepia, Sue Hawksley and Anna Williams flitted and drifted, and ...

... Dance for Life HER MAJESTY'S THE DANCE for Life gala, held in early December at Her Majesty's Theatre, was about the most enterprising event of its kind I can recall. There were no hoary chestnuts, nothing was too long, nothing was presented in isolation. Instead, a com bination of concise extracts provided a clear picture of the excellence and diversify of British and foreign dance from both ...

... Happy Family FARNHAM IF you analyse Giles Cooper's play Happy Family purely in terms of the book, you discover a most remarkable script that must cause actors ghastly nightmares about loss of continuity. Many of the lines are monosyllabic as four hands battle with words triggered off like bursts of rapid machine gun lire. Often there is no apparent connec tion between lines which seem to ...

... The Stirrings In Sheffield On Saturday Night SHEFFIELD ALAN Cullen's musical drama is something of a legend in the city whose name it bears. First staged at the old Playhouse 26 years ago, it was revived both there and in the early days at the Crucible-where it's now brought to life again to try and restore the the atre s morale. And it already looks like being a runaway success most seats ...

... Busy Sandown announces bumper summer season THIS summer Max Bygraves and Suzi Quatro will be making their first ever bill-topping appearances on the Isle of Wight, when they are among the star names booked to headline twelve Sunday Concerts at the Pavilion Theatre, Sandown. Also making welcome returns are stars like Norman Wisdom, the Drifters and new comedy star Jethro. Silver Fox ...

... DoE prosecutes agency THE Department of Employment is prosecuting partners of London agency Jo Gilbert Associates for allegedly breaching agency licensing regulations. The agency, run by Joanne Sinden and Judith Gilbert, is accused of breach ing 1976 statutory instruments additional regulations to the 1973 Employment Agencies Act which govern the safeguarding of client's money. These stipulate ...

... Award scrapped in tribute to Mercury By HELEN GOULD THE BRITS award for outstanding achievement to the British music industry was this year scrapped for the first time in ten years to make way for a tribute to the late Queen man Freddie Mercury. Queen scooped the award two years ago, and rather than make a posthu mous second award to Mercury who died from AIDS late last year organ isers ...

... Potter hits out at showcases LEADING club boss Bob Potter has blasted traditional variety showcases claiming they waste valuable time on entertainers who are no-hopers. He says the old style talent show has been done to death and lack of televi sion coverage has meant a decline in the number of big names emerging who are able to fill a major club. Potter, managing director of Surrey's ...

... MCPS in new shake-up By HELEN GOULD THE Mechanical Copyright Protection Society is undergoing a radical internal shake-up to improve administration and co-ordination of its royalty collection system. It currently operates 1 1 licensing schemes in the UK which, until now, have been encouraged to develop and function independently of each other. It is hoping that the reorganisations will aid its ...

... Resort's starship enterprise A TOP Blackpool nightspot has been zapped into oblivion by a futuristic fantasy game. Shades, the Central Promenade Coral Island complex, is being replaced by a £300,000 live action laser game which will operate all year round up to 14 hours a day at the height of the season. The twin level Quasar arena boasting two fully themed fantasy castles will take up to 40 ...

... Compagnie Schmid-Pernette THE PLACE CONTRIBUTIONS from three French choreographers made up this programme, and though its two works were quite different they had in common ideas about expressing psychlogical states through contrasting dynamics. Initially, it seemed that Les Ombres Portees, danced and ographedby Nathalie Pernette and Andreas Schmid, was just going to fall into dance's ...