VIDEO: Lithe young forms perform award-winning new choreography at Sadler's Wells

This is what new modern dance looks like in 2012. Muscular, and not without a certain grace.

James Cousins won the inaugural New Adventures Choreographer Award, founded by Matthew Bourne, last year. His prize was funding and support leading to this performance at Sadler’s Wells on 7 September.

More details here.

Boris Johnson dad-dancing as poorly recorded from telly on an iPhone

Boris Johnson can’t help dancing to the Spice Girls during the 2012 closing ceremonies.

South London mental health users share their experiences in the short film Overload

Ivan Riches helped South Londoners who use mental health services to make a film explaining their experiences.

The theme is overload. In some cases it’s an overload of memories, in others London itself is too much.

“Too many people, too much noise, I’m always waiting…” says one contributor.

“It’s all someone else’s life”, says another.

More on the film, the filmakers who Ivan helped, and the work of the Cooltan Arts group they come from can be found at A Funny Farm, the Cooltan group’s website. Also check out the Amazing World of Psychiatry blog.

What playing cricket looks like to Americans

British Museum guerrilla Shakespeare protest

Mike wrote about Sunday’s witty protest from the Reclaim Shakespeare Company at the British Museum yesterday. Here’s the Company’s video of the fun.

Open City Docs Fest looks pretty good

It starts today, most of it is round Goodge St/UCL way (or ‘west midtown’ – ugh) but there are farther flung showings. Check the programme for details.

A flavour:

London 2062 – How will we live?
A Spark from Tottenham A Dramatic Re-Telling of the Tottenham Riots – A rapper and a filmaker frrom Tottenham combine to retell the riots
We Will Be Happy One Day – The dreams peope dream in a poor Polish town

And loads more. If you like documentaries, check it out.

Mayor Boris Johnson - "I could be president"

Mayor Boris Johnson was a guest on the eponymously-named US chatshow Late Night with David Letterman late night. Here’s his clip.

Timelapse video of the new Blackfriars station construction

Four years in four minutes.

(H/T David Wilson)

Interested in watching a video of a brain dissection? It's HD!

The blurb for this Youtube video begins, matter of factly:

“On Wednesdays at Hammersmith Hospital in London, a few recently preserved human brains are dissected…”

They do it with breadknives.

Remarkable.

The video was made for the Wellcome Collection, as part of their Brains exhibition which runs until 17 June.

Jason Hawkes' aerial film of London at night makes the city look like Bladerunner

Has it ever looked so good?

Jason Hawkes has a website, is on Vimeo and on Twitter @jasonhawkesphot
Via Gizmodo