🎄❄️🎁That concludes #bv2025bestof 🎁❄️🎄
Merry Christmas to all my followers - and thanks to the many artists and performers who made 2025 so memorable.
See you down the front in 2026.
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And some old-fashioned crate-digging surfaced this little beauty. Yes, these are #Kraftwerk classics reinterpreted for steel pans, by #EbonySteelBand. #ThePanMachine ☺️
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My pick of recorded music this year is this gem by #DominikEulberg, a conservationist, ornithologist, biologist, ecologist and maker of lush electronica. Dive into #Lepidoptera, it's worth an hour of your time.
More on Dominik here: rb.gy/kntda7
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It was lovely to enter the festive season with #BalletCymru's #Giselle at #DanceCity in #Newcastle. Three sold-out nights tells the story...
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Indulge me on this one, but as a drummer it was a pleasure to hear #StewartCopeland regale #WhitleyBayPlayhouse with stories from the behind the kit with #ThePolice and more.
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So, 2 world-class viola performances in the same year. Something is stirring in #Hartlepool.
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October saw #IETM international performing arts network meeting in Bradford. Among the many workshops and discussions was a performance of this Gem by #JavaadAlipoor.
#Elmet featured live music by @theunthanks.bsky.social . Heavenly.
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The autumn saw the opening of the new building at #PrestonParkMuseum in #Stockton
Opening exhibition #Corridors is a commission by #S&DR200 by #RebeccaLouiseLaw on how natures corridors have been created beside railway tracks. The installation was like nothing I'd ever seen.
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And then #StocktonInternationalRiversideFestival took our breath away with the astonishing #LesCommandosPercu and a gridlocked Stockton at 10pm on a Sunday night, such was the size of the crowd which had gathered to see them
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#OrdinaryDecentCriminal by #EdEdwards featuring @markthomasinfo.bsky.social at @livetheatre.bsky.social was a high-octane journey through one man’s journey within the criminal justice system.
Here's a guardian review
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
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A change of pace.
#ContestedDesires, #D6's exhibition at @northeastmuseums.bsky.social's GNM Hancock. was brilliant and moving set of installations at the special exhibition space at GNM.
www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmu...
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#bv2025bestof Back to #Boro, back to an @industrialcoast.bsky.social event. #CutHands' intense and, quite literally banging, gig in June was a hardcore treat. If you don't know this music, here's a taster from an older show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYd...
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#bv2025bestof. The wait is almost over. More on the way.
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#ArcticExpressions at #KirkleathamMuseum in partnership with @britishmuseum.bsky.social . Exploring life for Indigenous Peoples in North America's Arctic regions, Alaska and Canada, this was an exciting exhibition with fascinating artefacts & illuminating perspectives.
rb.gy/rthzu6
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@middlechildhull.bsky.social's #BitingPoint was a gripping piece of immersive theatre, played out in a car park in #redcar/cleveland. The review is from a Hull performance
www.thereviewshub.com/biting-point...
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@heloisewerner.bsky.social's #TheCuckoo’sHour at the Glasshouse was an extraordinary concert from an emerging star of new music, featuring 12 musicians in the round arranged as per a clock face and 12 challenging 5 minute pieces to last the hour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe7Z...
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More dance from #bv2025bestof
#BalletBC at #NewcastleTheatre#Royal
We don’t often get dance of this quality in the UK, never mind the North East. Crystal Pite’s status as one of the world’s most exciting choreographers is underlined by her #Frontier from 2008
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And then (& I have to declare an interest here) they toured it to Berlin in September and almost took the roof off the
@berlinerfestspiele.bsky.social at #TanzTreffenDerJugend
I'll admit I was quite proud!
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/treffen-j...
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Good Friday saw the premiere of #NationalYouthDanceCompany's #Gravity at #LeedsPlayhouse. Choreographed by this year’s artistic directors #BoyBlue, this was a powerful piece of hip-hop led dance. The standing ovation went on for a long time.
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More #S&DR200 in #bv2025bestof - this time the #RailwayPioneersExhibition at the mighty #Hopetown in #Darlington. This tunning exhibition of 3 landmark locomotives drove train-heads wild. The scale of these beasts is truly impressive.
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March saw the launch of the #S&DR200 festival in Bishop Auckland. #AllChance Here some of the many thousands gathering for the spectacular show featuring #ImitatingTheDog, #SKYMAGIC and #InfantHercules
www.sdr200.co.uk/article/1669...
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The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at #mima in #middlesbrough.
This was an intriguing and illuminating dive into the decades long creative process that resulted in this iconic piece of #Teesside public art.
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This one, conducted by #DinisSousa featured 20th century classics from #Cage, #Kagel, #Schnittke and #Boulez and topped off with the mighty #Ligeti Chamber Concerto.
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Back to music and #RoyalNorthernSinfonia's #OnceUponATime was one of several stunning concerts at the #Glasshouse, Gateshead.
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Next up #JasminVardimon's #Now at #YorkTheatreRoyal.
An amazing show made up of past greatest hits reworked into a new piece . @theguardian.com liked it too
www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...
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