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The Space channel

The Space is a new digital arts service from Arts Council England developed in partnership with the BBC, bringing great theatre, concerts, opera, dance, film and more to every screen. Through a partnership with the Guardian, a selection of video, audio and live streams will be available to view here. For more information see thespace.org
  • Antonio Pappano

    Royal Opera Live: Antonio Pappano vocal masterclass - video

    Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House in London, leads a vocal masterclass

  • A still from Rainbow Dance, a 1936 short animation

    MoveTube: there's a pot of gold at the end of this Rainbow Dance

    Len Lye's deliriously jazzy 1930s animation for the Post Office Savings Bank shows public information films needn't be dull

  • Nora

    Nora: a short film responding to Ibsen's A Doll's House – video

    Hattie Morahan, who played Nora in the Young Vic production of Ibsen's classic, stars in this short film imagining what a modern-day Nora might look like

  • Portishead's Adrian Utley: my Sonic Journey around ancient trees

    The musician writes about his latest project, a soundtrack to a stroll among ancient trees to be played as the public follow in his footsteps

  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

    Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 5

    This week's podcast was recorded live at a pop-up event at the Serpentine Gallery's new Summer Pavilion. We also explore the cultural legacy of the 2012 Festival

  • The Culture Show: Lauren Laverne

    Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 4

    Choreographer Claire Cunningham talks about Ménage á Trois at the South Bank centre, is sitcom Twenty Twelve real, and All the Bells creator Martin Creed introduces a new album

  • A woman stands by a helicopter with her Cello

    Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 3

    In this third episode of the podcast, Lauren takes a look at an art project spanning the length of Hadrian's Wall. Plus, the Stockhausen helicopter quartet from Birmingham, and an interview with actor Simon Russell Beale, who is playing Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the National Theatre

  • Parking Wars written by Bola Agbaje

    10by10: Britain like you've never seen it on screen

    A new series of short online dramas take inspiration from the novel A Rage in Harlem. Laura Barnett meets the writers bringing black Britain to life

  • An artist continues to work on part of the 'See No Evil' street art project in Nelson Street, Bristol. The project, now in its second year, is Europe's biggest street art festival and has attracted top graffiti artists from all over the world.

    Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 2

    Lauren Laverne presents Lauren's Spacepod 2012, the second in a series of six podcasts from The Space and London 2012 Festival focusing on the UK's extraordinary summer of art and culture. This week's episode features Europe's largest street arts event in Bristol, a report from Edinburgh International Festival and a lamp-lit journey through Tate Modern

  • Lauren Laverne

    Lauren Laverne's Spacepod 2012 podcast: episode 1

    In the first of Lauren Laverne's podcasts for The Space, she is joined at the Edinburgh festival by Comedy Store Player Neil Mullarkey while Jon Holmes explores the set for a Polish version of the Scottish play – 2008: Macbeth

  • Graham Vick leads rehearsals of Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht

    The last unperformed Stockhausen opera lifts off

    The strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter's on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company's bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen opera

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