(Utopia 06 by Pete Ashton)
The centrepiece of IDFB 2010 this year was Utopia – a wild, outdoor dance spectacular mixing contemporary dancers with Russian, Spanish, Indian and African folk dance groups, all under the direction of Arthur Pita.
Victoria Square was filled by a sprawling stage, around 40 dancers and the music of Birmingham’s (only?) turbo-folk Gypsy and Balkan band, The Destroyers. We captured some of the action, as you can see in this slideshow:
With such a large , public audience there were many in the crowd taking their own photos and videos. YouTube user testmatch has made this video which gives a great flavour of what went on:
We’ve added more videos to our favourites on YouTube. We’ve also been scouring Flickr for photos and have found some really good ones, including some by Martin Pickard, Katchooo, Pedro Kwezi, Afrotography, Andy Brittle, Tan Hussein and Pete Ashton. Here’s a few of them:
(Utopia Preview Night at Victoria Square by Tan Hussein)
(Utopia Sunday 3 by Katchooo)
(By Afrotography)
