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National Dance Network awards Cardiff as the hosts of British Dance Edition 2016 |
Cardiff can look forward to extending a warm Welsh welcome to the 2016 British Dance Edition after the city was announced as host for the event. British Dance Edition 2016, the UK dance industry’s leading showcase event, will be jointly hosted from 17 - 20 March 2016 by the Cardiff Consortium consisting of Coreo Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, National Dance Company Wales, Chapter Arts Centre and Sherman Cymru. This will be the first time British Dance Edition comes to Wales since it was launched in 1998. The British Dance Edition, a biennial event and initiative of the National Dance Network, is renowned for presenting the best of British dance to promoters and producers from the UK and across the globe. The 2016 event will consist of performances by leading UK dance artists, companies and choreographers, and will offer networking opportunities, trade fairs and social events across the four key venues in the Cardiff Consortium, who will be working together, led by Coreo Cymru, to create a dynamic and diverse high quality platform that inspires exchange, debate and new partnerships. Carole Blade from Coreo Cymru said: “Hosting British Dance Edition represents an unprecedented occasion in the Cardiff performing arts calendar with up to 350 delegates expected to attend the four day event which will showcase up to 40 UK dance companies and artists.” The announcement was made at this year’s British Dance Edition which was held in venues across Edinburgh and Glasgow from Thursday 30 January to Sunday 2 February. Louise Miles-Crust, Head of Programming at Wales Millennium Centre said: “While British Dance Edition is targeted primarily towards promoters and producers of dance, I’m extremely pleased that tickets to a select number of performances will go on sale to the general public, offering audiences a fantastic opportunity to experience some of the finest, most exciting UK dance around. Wales Millennium Centre is passionate about presenting a varied programme of dance, so I’m delighted that British Dance Edition 2016 can form a part of that offer.” David Alston, Arts Director, Arts Council of Wales said: “The Arts Council of Wales warmly congratulates the consortium partners led by Coreo Cymru on being successful in attracting British Dance Edition to Wales for the first time in its history. It has been an aspiration for some time to draw attention to what Wales has to offer. Companies and solo artists have over the years made in roads into international working and like WOMEX for our musicians, British Dance Edition on home turf offers chances to showcase, certainly to network, and to interest programmers and key players in the contemporary dance world, in what Wales has to offer. Arts Council of Wales will want to support the partners and more broadly the dance sector, to gear up and make the most of this possibility and realize a real legacy from hosting the event.” The locations for the following two British Dance Editions have also been announced: Bournemouth and Poole, led by Pavilion Dance South West, 19 - 22 May 2018 and Newcastle and Gateshead, led by Dance City, 30 January - 2 February 2020. Further information about British Dance Edition can be found at: www.britishdanceedition.com |
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