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• Creativity in Hastings: designers do like to be beside the seaside

  13-08-2016 12:00
  
  Nearly 950 years after its eponymous battle, the East Sussex town is undergoing an artistic renaissanceWhen wallpaper designer Deborah Bowness moved to Hastings from London seven years ago, she didn’t expect to be working from a deserted ballroom on the seafront. “It was decayed glamour, battered and worn, with huge windows that looked out on to the sea. I was there for six months,” she says, sitting in a deckchair outside her beach chalet. “In London, I worked in a garag
  
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• The Dance Impresario Who Tries To Make A Business Out Of Love

  13-08-2016 01:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sergei Danilian is nothing if not determined. He has long supported the work of Mr. Eifman, an expressive Russian choreographer who inspires strong feelings in audiences, love or hate and little in between. While Mr. Danilian’s taste can be questionable — recent iterations of “Kings,” which felt cheaply commercial, as well as many appearances by Mr. Eifman — he is driven by a love of dance.
  
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