Back on the dance festival write-ups. Week 3 was one of contrasts – from mass-audience outdoor stuff to more intimate audiences and with performers from many different countries all sharing the same stages. Monday 3 May It was the Bank Holiday and we went back to watch Utopia again. What we were going to do […]
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IDFB 2010 week 2
This was the busiest week and the one in which my jaw hit the ground more often than medical advice recommends (metaphorically speaking, obv). Tuesday 27 April Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s Magia de la Danza is selection of the company’s greatest hits, starting with a scene from Giselle that simultaneously made me look forward to […]
IDFB 2010 week 1
Over the past month I went to 18 performances as part of International Dance Festival Birmingham. I figured I should probably write about them. Monday 19 April Things kicked off with Dancing the Waterways at midday – there were speeches, David Massingham flung a bottle of champers against the side of a canal barge and […]