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The UK’s most important dance showcase event, British Dance Edition, will come to Wales for the first time in 2016. |
The announcement was made yesterday (SUN) at this year’s BDE which is being held in Scotland, where dance artists from Wales have joined their colleagues from the UK in presenting the best of British dance to promoters and producers. The event will be jointly hosted in March 2016 by a Cardiff Consortium consisting of Coreo Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, National Dance Company Wales, Chapter Arts Centre and Sherman Cymru. While BDE is targeted primarily towards promoters and producers some of the performances from leading UK companies and independent artists will be open to the public. The event programme will cater for up to 350 delegates who will see a wide range of work including mainstream dance, dance theatre, new circus dance, children’s work, film, urban dance styles and site-specific, outdoor work from established and emerging companies and choreographers. The 2016 event offers networking opportunities, trade fairs and social events across the four key venues in the Cardiff Consortium, who will be working together and led by Coreo Cymru, to what the organisers aim to be a dynamic and diverse high-quality platform that inspires exchange, debate and new partnerships. Coreo Cymru’s Carole Blade said, “Hosting British Dance Edition represents an unprecedented occasion in the Cardiff performing arts calendar. Not only does it showcase over 40 UK dance companies and artists over a four-day period, it provides the UK dance sector with a fantastic opportunity to develop new contacts across the globe.” The announcement was made at the end of this year’s event where dance artists Jo Fong, Deborah Light, Eddie Ladd, Joanna Young and National Dance Company Wales formed what was Blade said was the strongest presence from Wales at the biennial event. David Alston, Arts Director, Arts Council of Wales said: “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.” Louise Miles-Crust, Head of Programming at Wales Millennium Centre said: “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.” The locations for the following two British Dance Editions were also announced. They will be Bournemouth and Poole, led by Pavilion Dance South West, May 19-22, 2018 and Newcastle and Gateshead, led by Dance City, January 30 to February 2, 2020. Further information about British Dance Edition can be found at: www.britishdanceedition.com |
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Monday, February 3, 2014 |
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