Dancing the Waterways: Workshops

A canal barge dance adventure travelling from Birmingham to Brewood and back again – performances, workshops, and lots of fun for all the family!

This year International Dance Festival Birmingham launches (quite literally) with a canal barge setting sail on a three week dance adventure.

Canal Work Dances is a new dance piece specially created for this event, choreographed by Australian-born Paul Gazzola and featuring four fantastic dance talents – Maria Blundell-Palethorpe, Mary Eddowes, Kate Mason, and Kimberley Noble. Through movement and song, the piece celebrates the incredible engineering involved in the canal network’s construction, the canal builders themselves, and the architectures of bridges, locks and buildings interlinked to the rhythm of the waterways.

We’d love you to join us along the way for a little alternative entertainment along the tow paths of the West Midlands…

Interested in booking a workshop? Sessions are still available, and can be flexible depending on your group’s availability – please call us on 0121 689 1095 or email idfb@dancexchange.org.uk for more details.

Also…

Spot the barge…
If you spot the barge on its travels, we’d love to hear about it! Upload photos to Flickr (tag your pics idfb2010) or email them to idfb@dancexchange.org.uk. Or if you’re on Twitter, why not tweet (hash tag #idfb2010)?

Dancing the Waterways has been granted the London 2012 Inspire mark, the badge of the London 2012 Inspire programme which recognises exceptional and innovative projects inspired by the 2012 Games. Find out more about the Inspire Mark here.