Our Festival may be entering its final 24 hours, but the IDFB (link to IDFB site) team is still very much on the go and gearing up for a big finale this Saturday with Put Your Foot Down! (link to PYFD page on IDFB site) and Deborah Colker’s Cruel (link to Cruel page on IDFB site).
So what have we got in store for you on 15 May then? Well, between midday and 6pm, we’ve got an array of free performances lined up on our main stage in St Martin’s Square including:
VOCAB Dance Company (link to VOCAB site) performing Kwenda-Kwenda
Musical Dance performance by class participants from DanceXchange (link to dx site)
Beingfrank Youth (link to being frank website) performing Deja Vu
Hina & Co (link to hina and co website) Bollywood Bhangra Performance
Guest Performance by Making Choreographers (link to dx page about Making Choreographers) students (Telford Culture Zone & DanceXchange)
Club Jazz performance by class participants from DanceXchange
IDFB Dance Challenge (link to Dance Challenge page on IDFB site) Showcase featuring Jodie Schofield from Smooth Radio
SteadiFlux performing BodyRock
Performance by Hereford-based 2Faced Dance Company (link to 2Faced site)
ACE Youth (link to ACE Youth site) performing Artificial Intelligence
Dance into Fitness demonstration by class participants from DanceXchange
Guest Performance by Centre for Advanced Training in Contemporary and South Asian Dance (link to dx site) students from DanceXchange
Capoeira demonstration by class participants from DanceXchange
IDFB Dance Challenge Showcase featuring Louisa James from ITV Central
Tap Dance performance by Advanced Tap class participants from DanceXchange
Guest Performance by High Achievers from DanceXchange’s Buzz! project
DanceXchange Class Programme (links to classes intro page on dx site) Showcase
IDFB Dance Challenge Showcase featuring Satnam Rana from BBC WM
Plus, DJ Moyma (does he have a site to link to?) will be providing some quality tunes throughout the afternoon. Presenters are Smooth Radio’s Tammy Gooding, BBC WM’s Satnam Rana and David Massingham, IDFB’s Co-Director.
Then, it’s the bit you’ve all been waiting for – the Put Your Foot Down Mass Dance with hip hop sensation Salah between 6pm and 6.30pm. We’re expecting hundreds of people dancing the same street/hip hop dance routine (choreographed by Salah) at the same time, so don’t miss it! Check out a sneak preview of the routine here:
Can we embed video of routine – the one where he performs it in full, not demo
Want to join in? There’s still time! Come along tomorrow afternoon and follow the on stage demos (12.30pm-12.45pm, 2.35pm-2.50pm, 4.35pm-4.50pm), or take part in classes outside Debenhams in Bullring at the following times: 12.15pm // 1.15pm // 2.15pm // 3.15pm // 4.15pm
(Pic of a PYFD session from Bullring)
And, for our final theatre show of 2010, we welcome renowned Brazilian company Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker with Cruel (link to IDFB page), 8pm at Birmingham Hippodrome. The performance explores the many forms cruelty can take in a relationship. For tickets, book online (link to Hippodrome booking page http://www.birminghamhippodrometickets.com/tickets/production.aspx?pid=11397) or call 0844 338 5000 or buy on the door.
Our Festival may be entering its final 24 hours, but the IDFB team is still very much on the go and gearing up for a big finale this Saturday with Put Your Foot Down! and Deborah Colker’s Cruel.
So what have we got in store for you on 15 May then? Well, between midday and 6pm, we’ve got an array of free performances lined up on our main stage in St Martin’s Square including:
IDFB Dance Challenge Showcase featuring Satnam Rana from BBC WM
Plus, DJ Moyma will be providing some quality tunes throughout the afternoon. Presenters are Smooth Radio’s Tammy Gooding, BBC WM’s Satnam Rana and David Massingham, IDFB’s Co-Director.
Then, it’s the bit you’ve all been waiting for – the Put Your Foot Down Mass Dance with hip hop sensation Salah between 6pm and 6.30pm. We’re expecting hundreds of people dancing the same street/hip hop dance routine (choreographed by Salah) at the same time, so don’t miss it! Check out a sneak preview of the routine here.
Want to join in? There’s still time! Come along tomorrow afternoon and follow the on stage demos (12.30pm-12.45pm, 2.35pm-2.50pm, 4.35pm-4.50pm), or take part in classes outside Debenhams in Bullring at the following times: 12.15pm // 1.15pm // 2.15pm // 3.15pm // 4.15pm
And, for our final theatre show of 2010, we welcome renowned Brazilian company Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker with Cruel, 8pm at Birmingham Hippodrome. The performance explores the many forms cruelty can take in a relationship. For tickets, book online or call 0844 338 5000 or buy on the door.
The countdown is on as 300 dancers from right across Birmingham and the West Midlands prepare to arrive at St Martin’s Square here at Bullring to participate in the Put Your Foot Down event on Saturday 15 May. I can’t wait to see our shoppers put their shopping bags to one side and prepare to strut their stuff in the choreographed routine.
We were eager to become part of this year’s IDFB to join up with such an impressive cultural event offered by Birmingham, and to offer another dimension for our visitors to get involved in. We’ve seen our shoppers bopping around during the dance lessons that have happened in the malls so I’m sure the main event will be very popular!
Over the past three weeks you’ve really been able to feel the city’s theatres, streets and waterways buzzing as the Festival has taken a grip on Birmingham and we’re really excited that we now have the chance to bring this to Bullring with the grand final and how better to end IDFB 2010 than with a mass participation event with French hip hop artist Salah.
It’s already the final week of International Dance Festival Birmingham. Time has flown but there’s still loads to see and do. Here’s what’s happening this week (10-15 May).
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Birmingham-born, former-Riverdance star, Colin Dunne is performing his Laurence Olivier Award-nominated solo show, Out of Time at the Patrick Centre. You’ll see Irish step dancing investigated whilst being seamlessly integrated with text, archive film and sound design.
Thursday brings New York’s Thresh Dance Company’s The Absent Lover, a modern interpretation of a classic 5th century Sanskrit play by famous Indian dramatist, Kalidasa, at The Patrick Centre.
Xavier Le Roy’s Self Unfinished is at Ikon Eastside on Thursday and Friday. The performance is set on a white stage resembling a research lab, in which Xavier gradually transforms into different kinds of creatures.
Friday’s a busy day for dance: as well as a second chance to catch Self Unfinished, acclaimed couple Abhimanyu Lal and Vidha will perform Kathak Duet at The Patrick Centre.
On Friday and Saturday, Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker will perform Cruel, which explores the many different forms that cruelty can take in a relationship and features athletic dancers, knives, spinning mirrors and an enormous globe-shaped chandelier.
International Dance Festival Birmingham comes to a spectacular end on Saturday with Put Your Foot Down in St Martin’s Square in the Bullring. IDFB 2010 will be bringing the Bullring to life with help from French hip hop artist Salah. There will be free performances and dance demos, finishing in a mass synchronised hip hop/street dance routine.
