Coventry
Josie d鈥橝rby and Karim Zeroual shine a spotlight on dance in the Midlands, brought to you from Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry, the current UK city of culture.
Josie d鈥橝rby and Karim Zeroual shine a spotlight on dance in the Midlands, brought to you from Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry, the current UK city of culture.
Dance Passion is a celebration of dance in all its forms. It features performances from established dance companies, and from grass roots and youth dance groups. There are also specially commissioned new films that push the boundaries of how dance is captured.
Featured in this programme:
- Birmingham Royal Ballet鈥檚 brand-new production of Don Quixote, including an interview with their artistic director Carlos Acosta.
- Irish dance from Coventry鈥檚 Celtic Feet.
- We enter the world of Bollywood with Nupur Arts from Leicester.
- And a reflection on the coronavirus pandemic and the collective strength of humanity with a new work from Ascension Dance.
- It also features Korean-influenced K-pop dance from Koncept, a group that formed at Warwick University, and Mana - a performance from Birmingham鈥檚 Ace Dance and Music, drawing on African dance and ancient Shamanic rituals.
- Two new short films are featured including: Nottingham-based Tom Dale Company with Surge, which uses Virtual Reality and motion capture technology to explore the boundaries between the real and the virtual; and a new film from Lisa Simpson Inclusive Dance. Based in Liverpool, Lisa has Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy and no verbal communication, and her new film explores how Lisa can choreograph and express herself using her own invention, the Simpson Board.
Dance Passion is a collaboration between 大象传媒 Arts and One Dance UK, and is supported by Arts Council England.
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