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5 Soldiers in Milan

After a successful tour in the spring and summer, IDFB 2010 co-commissioned work 5 SOLDIERS – The Body Is The Frontline recently had its international premiere at the Madrid En Danza festival in Spain. The prestigious dance festival invited Rosie Kay Dance Company to perform 5 Soldiers at the Teatro de la Abadia for two nights. The piece, which is a timely, controversial, thought provoking exploration of war in modern times, received an incredible reception, selling out its premiere and had a great response from interested audiences who stayed for the post-show talk.

5 Soldiers, Photographer Brian Slater

5 SOLDIERS is a dance theatre work with a female and four male dancers. It looks at how the human body is essential to, and used in, warfare. The work, choreographed by Rosie Kay, explores the physical training that prepares you for war, as well as the possible effects on the body, and the injury caused by warfare. For more 5 Soldiers news, visit the Rosie Kay Dance Company website. You can also watch the BBC coverage on the 5 SOLDIERS Facebook Group.

Looking forward to 2010

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The holiday season is fast receding (I hope you had a good break, by the way) and thoughts have turned to the year ahead. IDFB 2010 doesn’t feel very far away and the anticipation is starting to build.

For instance, we were pleased to see that this past weekend The Sunday Times, in their round-up of the hottest dance tickets of the year, named shows that will feature at IDFB 2010:

Birmingham’s a busy city for dance this year – I’ll expand on that later. However, British Dance Edition 2010 (3-6 Feb) is on the immediate horizon with Akram Khan and Rosie Kay both showing work before returning for the festival later in the year.

Rosie Kay is currently in rehearsals at DanceXchange and I’ll be popping in to see how things are going later in the week.