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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Here's a new interview in The End of Dance series, this time with Tamsin Fitzgerald of 2Faced Dance Company from Hereford. She talks about ending a choreography, losing Arts Council England NPO funding & a 25 year company retrospective. Photo by Emma Drabble www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

A black and white photograph of a woman who is crouching in a dance studio. She's looks off to the side of the camera and is wearing a dark top and trousers and has curly hair.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Who is doing interesting thinking/research about AI, disability & environmental impact? One of the tensions I'm grappling with is e.g. visually impaired people use assistive technology/apps which have AI at their centre & make their journey through our ableist world easier. Links/humans welcome.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Today marks the 10 year anniversary since I've been writing about dance for Writing About Dance. I get all smooshy reflecting on the importance of independent media platforms, dances encountered & an acknowledgement of Nicholas Minns (founder/editor). #DanceSky www.linkedin.com/posts/itabbo...?

A colour photograph of a number 5 dimly lit bodies sat closely together with their limbs making X's over their heads and different geometric planes. Their faces are covered by a long, flowing and elaborate cream coloured feathered mask. They sit on a wooden structure which has a large circular hole at the centre.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here's the latest in my new series The End of Dance & it features Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé from Montreal. Spicey talks about working in 10 year cycles, her company Ebnflōh, her influence on Street Dance, ending work relationships & vulnerability. #DanceSky www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Welcome to your #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) Space 2 Create Commission - East London Dance £11,000, 4 weeks of studio time, producing & marketing support for an artist from Hip Hop dance, South Asian or African dance practices. #DanceSky d/l 17/3 www.eastlondondance.org/opportunitie...

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SPACE 2 CREATE - East London Dance

Apply now for £11,000 to get your work commissioned

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

eastlondondance.org

SPACE 2 CREATE - East London Dance

Apply now for £11,000 to get your work commissioned

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The 2025 #DigitalCultureAwards shortlist has landed & @extantltd.bsky.social are chuffed to be recognised in the Digital Inclusion category for our audio drama Unseen. The entire Unseen creative team (20+ people) were visually impaired inc. cast, writers, sound designer, script editor & director.

A multi-colour graphic with an off white colour background, small pink semi circles and dark blue text which reads '2025 Shortlisted'. Below this, is a large semi-circle, with text which reads 'Digital Inclusion' and the Digital Culture Awards and Arts Council England logos.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

6 weeks later and we now have a summary, written by The Audience Agency, of the 2 x 2hour events looking into touring in England. My personal response from the first session is in the skeet string below; here's a few quotes from the official pdf summary (which is screen reader unfriendly).

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's #OpportunitiesAvalanche time 1) Staging The Intimate - Workshop by Podiumkunsten A workshop that looks at essential strategies for developing sustainable & consent-informed practices in performing arts 17/3 Brussels Free Language = English & Dutch www.podiumkunsten.be/opleidingen/...

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Staging the intimate, an introduction to consent-informed practices (workshop 1) | Podiumkunsten

In deze workshop richten we ons op praktische benaderingen om intieme inhoud te navigeren, tools die persoonlijke autonomie respecteren en de fysieke en emotionele integriteit van iedere artiest centr...

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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Staging the intimate, an introduction to consent-informed practices (workshop 1) | Podiumkunsten

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A little moment of UK dance history happened in Bristol last night. Impermanence opened their new theatre - The Mount Without - with performances from Seeta Patel Dance, Mark Bruce Company, Owen Ridley-Demonick and Impermanence (who performed an homage to the late David Lynch). #dancesky

A colour photograph of 5 people sat in a semi-circle on chairs on a stage engaged in a conversation. The floor is bathed in blue light and at the bottom there’s the back of several audience members heads.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you're a Producer, Agent or Manager working in the Performing Arts in Europe, I would REALLY recommend you sign up to the PAMPA mailing list before this Friday as we have a glorious opportunity incoming. #TheatreSky #DanceSky www.pampa-network.org/home

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Pampa Network: Home

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1) The Jakkai Siributr exhibition at The Whitworth (closing 16/3/2025) is a stunner. #There'sNoPlace creates lush, textural, narrative-rich handmade embroideries, quilts and textile installations in response to the religious, political & societal issues in Thailand, inc. this from his work 2018

A cropped colour photograph of a multi-textural, super-vibrant, hand-sewn on a white quilted background. The artwork features 3 soldiers in the foreground, buddhist iconography dotted throughout, wispy grey and white beaded clouds at the top as well as fantastical beasts with human heads.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

1) The #BarbaraWalker exhibition at The Whitworth (closing 26/1/25), Manchester is extraordinary. It's unfathomable* that #BeingHere is the first survey of this brilliant artist. With 70+ works spanning different cycles of practice inc. this from Turner Prize nommed Burden of Proof. *see racism

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1) International Writing Residency - Theatre for Young People 4-week residency at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, access to an apartment, travel budget of 10 000 SEK, dramaturg & actors for a final reading. d/l 21/1 ledigajobb.dramaten.se/jobs/5362800...

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RESIDENCY - DRAMATEN

Spela roll hos oss!

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The End of Dance - a new series of texts that examines endings in dance & creates space for the aftermath & impact. Featuring long form interviews & essays it offers a reflective space for people to evaluate & see how their dust has settled. #DanceSky www.thegeometrician.com/the-end-of-d...

A black and white photo featuring two head shots. The person on the left is a White woman in her early 30s with dark, centre parted shoulder length hair and a light coloured top, she looks directly into the camera. The person on the right is a Brown woman in her late 20s with dark hair in a loose up style and a dark colour shirt with buttons, she looks to the right of the image, away from the camera.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

WAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLLLL. What an experience at the Welland Wassail. It was time to wake the trees, feed the robins cider soaked toast at the mother tree and meet the green man. Wassailing is about scaring away the evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of apples in autumn.

A colour photograph at night. On the right is a large man with green face paint, bushy ginger beard and wearing a brimmed hat coverage with foliage and christmas lights. He wears a golden embroidered poncho and is holding a flaming torch in his left hand. He looks towards an older woman on the left hand side with short dark hair and dark top. In the background we see the outline of a number of bare trees lit up in red, green and blue.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I felt like I was decomposing in my seat like Rekha. Rekhachitram felt loooooooong. A rudimentary police procedural with AI recreating a 73 year old Mammootty into his mid 30s heartthrob era as they attempt to blend fact/fiction & discover a murder on the 1985 film set of Kathodu Kathoram. #FilmSky

A colour film poster containing two prominent characters in the centre looking towards the camera. A middle aged Indian man with a bushy moustache on the left wears a tan police uniform, peaked cap and brown leather belt and his body faces left. A young Indian woman wears a white nuns outfit and habit alongside a silver crucifix on her chest. In the background are a series of sepia photographs and letters. Below the characters is the title of the film - Rekhachitram - alongside the 20+ names of the director, producer and cast in a small white font.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hello 2025. Hello #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow at @harvard.edu USA Conduct original research on the collection of works by Nam June Paik. $60k p.a. + travel budget Applications reviewed - rolling basis from 27/1/2025 sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow - Harvard University - Job Details

Click to learn more about and apply for the position

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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Hakuta Family Nam June Paik Curatorial Fellow - Harvard University - Job Details

Click to learn more about and apply for the position

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The #OpportunitiesAvalanche will return next week. However, one of the things I'm loving about @bsky.app is the discovery of so many incredible people (mainly new to me) who're writing/creating in their specialist areas of interest with so much love, detail & expertise. Here's 10 to start with...

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2025. More of this please. Worms Head showing off AGAIN. The Gower Peninsular was the first place in GB to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956...which is 70 years next year. Plenty of satisfying hand scrambles to cross the tidal causeways and reach the top of the worm.

A colour photograph of a series of rocky and grassy headlands which head towards the horizon onto the mainland. Sandwiched between the sea on both sides, the top third of the image is full of feathery clouds and blue skies.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My Top 12 Films in 2024. Over 100 trips to the cinema (mainly due to Odeon MyLimitless) + a dozen streamed films. The Boy and The Heron, The Substance and Perfect Days are on the podium. Watched about a dozen Malayalam + Telugu films and definitely want to see more in 2025. #FilmSky

A graphic made up of 12, portrait, film posters (feat. Aavesham, All of Us Strangers, The Boy and the Heron, A Different Man, Emilia Perez, Godzilla Minus One, Kneecap, Love Lies Bleeding, Occupied City, Perfect Days, The Substance, Toto The Hero) in alphabetical order. They are on 2 x rows of 6 and there's a thin band of black between the two rows.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A little Christmas day cloud inversion from Waun Fach looking towards Pen Y Fan. #TheBlackMountains

A colour photograph of a cloud inversion looking towards another mountain range. Wispy clouds and blue skies fill the top half, a silhouette of ridges and tops stretch from the left edge to the right edge across the middle. The bottom half is full of dense clouds that feel very close.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Welcome to the latest #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Indigenous Artists Residency - Dance Jårrh! is a 2-4 week, paid artist residency for Indigenous artists worldwide who work with choreography, set in the Sámi cultural landscape of Dearna, Sweden d/l 26/1/25 riksteatern.varbi.com/en/what:regi...

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Open call: Jårrh!

Jårrh! is an artist residency for Indigenous artists worldwide who work with choreography and movement. We offer you time and space to develop your ideas and practice within a collaborative environme

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A trip to @houseofcommons.parliament.uk for an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social reception hearing from @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social, Sophie Willan & Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Some incoming priorities look like post-industrial towns, hyper local decision making (not metro mayor level) & representation.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Some thoughts on the performances & ableism on show at the 2024 edition of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. A rarefied, eight-course, Michelin Star choreographic tasting menu with some of best (& worst) performances I’ve ever audienced. #DanceSky www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian...

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Ian Abbott at the KFDA (Kunstenfestivaldesarts)

On his first visit to the KFDA (Kunstenfestivaldesarts) in Brussels, Ian Abbott discusses the festival itself and some of the works he saw.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A little trip to the National Theatre this afternoon to see Inua Ellams win the Alfred Fagon Award for his new play Once Upon a Time in Sokoto (which had a cracking read through directed by Brigette Adela) and Ilayda McIntosh win the Mustapha Matura Award for her play Hummingbird. #TheatreSky

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Welcome to the latest #OpportunitiesAvalanche 1/ Bucharest Dance Hack - April 7-11, 2025, They seek 5 participants to work towards ways of blending the moving human body & technology. Paid €2000 + slow travel reimbursement + pds + accommodation. d/l 31/12 dancehack.eu/developing-a...

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Bucharest Dance Hack – EU DANCE HACK

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

💡Touring performing arts in England. @artscouncilengland.bsky.social have engaged The Audience Agency (a contract worth £50k-£100k) to conduct a study of the touring of theatre, dance, music & combined arts to indoor venues with 150+ seats who present work. www.artscouncil.org.uk/research-and...

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Touring Research 2024

Learn more about our 2024 major research study of the touring of theatre, dance, music and combined arts activities.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

1/ Nestled lovingly alongside The GIF Reviews is my writing. Here's some responses to my writing and analysis of the 2024 Made in Scotland showcase and a focus on works from Scotland. "Insightful and rip snorting salvos...balanced nicely with expertise and genuine respect when due for artists."

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Pushpa 2: The Rule opened worldwide yesterday, breaking box office records in India. It's a 3hr 20 epic with a riot of scale, fight sequences & choreography I've not seen before. Written/directed by Sukumar, feat. Allu Arjun & Fahadh Faasil. #CooliesRise #FilmSky youtu.be/1kVK0MZlbI4?...

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

As part of the long hello and re-introduction here on bluesky, this (alongside the writing about dance) is another side of me. Introducing the GIF review. Songs of the Wayfarer by Claire Cunningham at Budascoop (part of the Next Festival), Kortrijk, Belgium thegifreview.tumblr.com/post/7689819...

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The Gif Review

Songs of the Wayfarer by Claire Cunningham concept & choreo Claire Cunningham, Dan Watson and Luke Pell at Budascoop, Next Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium IA

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Here's the latest Opportunities Avalanche 1/ The Baobab Community Fund A £3m fund dedicated to resourcing UK based Black African/Caribbean & Global Majority individuals, organisations & collectives to dismantle systems of oppression. d/l 3/2/25 www.baobabfoundation.org.uk/baobab-commu...

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Apply for Funding — Baobab Foundation

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

One of the things I'm loving about @bsky.app is discovering so many brilliant communities of interest who're sharing their knowledge. @cartivist.bsky.social posted this incredible illustrated map of London written on a glove, so if you're interested in maps or archives - follow Andrew.

Off-white leather glove with the hand illustrated design of an outline map of central London (between Kensington Gardens and Bank) across the palm and fingers.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

No Dramas are free theatre workshops for blind & visually impaired adults, delivered by @extantltd.bsky.social. Next sessions: London - BAC, 6-8pm, 3rd Dec & 6th Jan Hereford - Courtyard, 2-4pm, 3rd Dec & 7th Jan Online - 6-8pm, 12th Dec & 9th Jan extant.org.uk/participatio... #theatresky

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No Dramas - EXTANT

No Dramas are two hour drama sessions, which are held in person or on online using Zoom for visually impaired adults.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you're a UK based theatre producer or interested in such things, the brilliant @bobbyharding.bsky.social has put together a starter pack of independent & affiliated UK Theatre Producers. I'm in it alongside many wonderful peers who make the world go round. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Musical highlight of a recent trip to PAMS (Performing Arts Market in Seoul) was this concert - A Funky Night With Guardian Spirits by CHUDAHYE CHAGIS. A psychedelic, funk, shamanic, Hip Hop band with a hugely charismatic lead singer. chudahyechagis.bandcamp.com/album/undern...

A colour photograph of a Korean, female singer wearing an ornate twin feathered head piece, holding a large yellow fan in her right hand and wearing black dungarees and a white top. In the background is a shaggy haired drummer wearing a patterned black and white jumper sat against a deep blue stage.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Something I used to do in the old little blue bird world was put together a list of opportunities, commissions, funding, jobs and other things of note which had a relevance to those working in dance, theatre and the performing arts. Feels like the right time to reignite it. Bumper issue to kick off

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ink Cypher - In Print is an exquisitely designed, limited edition, Hip Hop dance newspaper featuring 55 commissioned texts. +++ A centre fold poster and an exclusive introductory essay I wrote 'The Biters: AI, Remixing and Hip Hop Dance' www.hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-i...

A colour photograph of the front page of a salmon coloured newspaper. The title text - Ink Cypher - is at the top in dark blue and each individual letter looks like it is dripping paint from it. Below this is the salmon coloured text "Original features and long form writing on Hip Hop dance from a suite of international voices" which sits on a dark blue background which covers the rest of the front of the paper. Below this and taking up over half of the cover is a tri-coloured circular graphic with curved lines connecting different parts of the circumference together.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Reintroducing this interactive text adventure, made using Twine, for the Blue Skyers. Remixing Criticism - my robust and text based interactive critique of Hip Hop, dance, theatre, criticism, institutional power and the erasure of women in the UK. thegeometrician.itch.io/remixing-cri...

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Remixing Criticism - Hip Hop dance under the microscope by Ian Abbott

A text based interactive critique of Hip Hop, dance, criticism, institutional power and the erasure of women.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Stoked to have Tafsila Khan joining the Extant team next month. She will be the second visually impaired Trainee Artistic Director to be part of Extant. We continue to create opportunities for incredible VI folks... & the next opp is coming soon. extant.org.uk/announcing-o... Photo: Jorge Lizalde

A colour photograph of Tafsila Khan, a South Asian female in her 40s who is standing, smiling in a park area holding her long white cane. She's wearing a white t-shirt, white open shirt and khaki trousers.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Show Me Your Nationalisms - a deep/critical dive into some of the dance works presented at the Made in Scotland 2024 showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. +++ Funding tomfoolery by Angus Robertson, Scot Gov and Creative Scotland. www.writingaboutdance.com/festival/ian... Photo by Sally Jubb

A photograph of two performers, who're visible from the torso up set against a 70s, psychedelic pink, brown and red repeating geometrical pattern backdrop. The performer on the left is wearing the same pattern as the backdrop and we can only see the bottom half of her face as she she looks towards the the performer on the right. He is oblivious to her presence, stares towards the camera, wears denim blue dungarees and adjusts a purple stripey tie.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

What is the most unexpected thing you've found on a beach? I'll start. 2 seaweed eating cows. Balnakeil Bay, Scotland.

A colour photograph of two black cows eating seaweed on a sandy beach. In the background is a rocky bay with turquoise waters and the silhouettes of mountains on the horizon.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Whilst there's plenty of blue skies out of shot, the sun and shadows were dappling on the grasses of Bannau Brycheiniog. As it's the start of Nan Shepherd season, I thought I'd get out early doors to walk a slight variation of the four peak (Fan-Y-Big, Cribyn, Pen-Y-Fan & Corn-Du) horseshoe walk.

A colour photograph which looks towards three mountain peaks in the Brecon Beacons from a high point. There’s lots of greens, moss, grass and shadows. In the right foreground are spongy clumps of bulbous moss, in the mid-range there’s steep angles and cliff faces trailing off to the bowl and in the distance are hazy paths cutting across the hills like veins on a body.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

'Kingfisher with Minnow' by Walenty Pytel was unveiled by the artist on 11th July 2019 (the 50th anniversary of his first major sculpture) and commissioned by the Museum of Cider, Hereford. There's plenty of his other works across Herefordshire including the Malvern Buzzards in Great Malvern.

A colour photograph which is looking up towards a large, stylised metal sculpture of a kingfisher in mid flight with a minnow caught in its beak tip against a blue sky and a few white clouds. The kingfisher which takes up the right hand of the image is perched atop some metal branches which are decorated with flowers and tendrils.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

The sharp edged, grey geometry of Taipei Performing Arts Centre in Taiwan...a stark contrast to their external vending machine where you could buy plastic, primary coloured sculpted key rings emblazoned with the company logo.

A colour photograph of the external, grey, sharp edged geometric lines of Taipei Performing Arts Centre. One theatre looks like a large metal letterbox which juts out of the side of the central building supported by two sets of emergency exit stairs.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

The collection of blue skies for this blue sky continues. This one is from a trip to Japan earlier in the month at a railway station near Yokohama. One of the joys in Japan is that each station has its own personalised (almost 8-bit) jingle which is played when a train enters the station.

A colour photograph of four rectangular, Japanese advertising signs attached to the side of a grey building with a blue sky at the top. In front of the signs is a very busy lamp post with dozens of power and communications wires stretching out horizontally across the image.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

It was a twin peak kinda day in Bukhansan National Park, Korea. Here's the view from Yeongbong peak (604m) looking out towards where I was heading - Baegundae peak (836.5m). The pine needle scent was delicious, but I was more than a little surprised to encounter cats at the top of both mountains.

A shimmery colour photo of a view from yeongbong peak in bukhansan national park. Two large rocky mountains dominate the centre and are sprinkled with green pine trees. The foreground and bottom third features the bushy top of a large manicured pine tree.

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Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

A little trip back to Dartington, Devon - it was here I learned to bind books with the brilliant Mary Bartlett - where the winter sun was licking the huge swamp cypress in the Dartington Hall courtyard as the craft fair was in full bloom.

A colour photo of the top half of a giant swamp cypress tree in the late afternoon sunlight with autumnal rust red needles set against a bright blue cloudless sky.

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