May 31st, 2010 by soul4dance

Big Dance London
Big Dance event takes place from 3rd July till 11th July, 2010. A week full of dance events and activities will take place in London. These events will be organized at various locations across London and it ends at the Trafalgar Square with a world dance extravaganza.

Big Dance London

People of all ages can join in this fun filled event with workshops which will be happening throughout London. There will be plenty of activities which will keep you moving whether its ballroom, ballet, tango or tap dance. People from London can get in to the dance floor at various places like schools, theatres, cinemas and community centers. This will be a useful event for Londoners to make themselves fit during summer. It’s organized by the Mayor of London along with the Arts Council and the BBC. Various organizations like Sport England, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Department of Health, and The British Heart Foundation provide support for this event.

The highlight of this event will be a mass choreographed dance for 10,000 people. Fans can also view contemporary and classical performances on London streets and its iconic landmarks. Most of the events are completely free to take part. This event will end with a massive finale in Trafalgar Square at 10th July. The previous event has set new world records for the largest number of dancers performed for one track of music. In 2010, the excitement will be more as dancers perform their stunning routine!

May 19th, 2010 by soul4dance

New York Dance Parade
New York dance parade will be held on May 22, 2010 at 1.00 pmwith over 70 dance styles, 200 dance organizations, and more than 10 thousand dancers on the streets of New York City .

New York Dance Parade-2010

Each year they continue to expand and hold the same vision. They will move down Broadway, hula, swing and Irish through the Union Square and into the University Place. At Eighth Street they we will dance Salsa, Tango and Waltz East into Saint Marks Street. From there they will move to the DanceFest in Tompkins Square Park where they will come together and celebrate watching free dance performances, take dance lessons and enjoy a Dance Party.

Their mission is to promote dance as an expressive art by performing all types of dance, educating the public and celebrate the diversity of dance. Come check out who’s already registered. Find if there’s a dance style you can’t see? If there’s a dance group that should be participating in this?

Location:
Grand stand location street
Mark pl & 3rd Avenue,
New york, NY 10003

April 26th, 2010 by soul4dance

Karmiel Dance Festival
Karmiel dance festival will be held between July 27th till July 29th, 2010. More than 5,000 dancers from all countries will participate in this festival. Karmiel is located at #85, in Beit Hakerem Valley. It’s 35 km from Tiberius and 45km from Haifa.

Karmiel Dance Festival

Most of the people think that Israeli dance refers to Israeli folk dance but Karmiel festival includes contemporary, jazz, and ballroom and israeli folk dance.

Shlomo Maman is the artistic director who gave an idea to include various dance styles in this festival. Last year artists from Kibbutz, Ido Tadmor, Rina Schenfeld and Vertigo’s second company participated in this festival. Last years festival included 5,000 dancers and 80 events which were composed of concerts, competitions, and dance classes.

The opening of last years festival was dedicated to Tel Aviv in honor of the city’s centennial. More than 1,500 dancers from various groups participated in that ceremony. In the closing ceremony each folk dance group presented its best piece of choreography and more than 2000 dancers were involved in it.

April 22nd, 2010 by soul4dance

Newyork Dance Festival

The Newyork Dance Festival was organized by the international arts-and-human-rights organization to develop South Asian dance. This festival will be held on April 24th at Symphony Space and at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse on April 25th.

This festival brings together the best in South Asian arts and explores the realities of gender and sexuality. Apart from creating awareness it acts as a source to enter public dialogue around issues of gendered identities, violations of human rights and women’s rights.

Newyork Dance Festival

Venue:
Symphony Space - April 24th
Stanley Kaplan Penthouse – April 25th

Participating Artists:
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
Kalanidhi Dance
Sumbhaav Dance Project
Flexy Studios
UBC Bhangra Girlz
Shayma Sayid

Last year’s festival received more than 50 influential and experiential dancers and activists from Asia, Europe and the United States. The press coverage for the festival was tremendous with media such as BBC, India Abroad, India in NY, Newsweek and many others.

April 12th, 2010 by soul4dance

Eastbourne International Festival
The 34th edition of the Eastbourne International Folkdance Festival is to be held from 30th April till 3rd May, 2010. This festival focuses both on watching and dancing just link leading and playing music. There will be dance practice workshops, display sides and evening social dances.

Eastbourne International Folkdance Festival occupies a special position among all the folk dance festivals. It is one of the best festivals because it concentrates on workshops and dances for enthusiasts. This festival receives excellent comments from all those who come for the festival. It also has an excellent reach not just because of the organising committee but due to the interest for folk dance all over the world.

EIFF-2010

Venue:
Bishop Bell School,
Priory Road
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN23 7EJ

At the festival site, you can easily move to any workshop and go everywhere to meet your dancers. There will be four workshop sessions and an afternoon tea-dance. There will be three simultaneous dances on Friday evening and on Saturday and Sunday nights there are four dances and our special events. With one ticket you can join all the events.

April 6th, 2010 by soul4dance

Belgrade Dance Festival
The seventh edition of the Belgrade Dance Festival is to be held between April 9-23, 2010. This Festival has brought a good tradition, guest appearances of dance companies and famous choreographers. The main aim of this festival is to present tendencies for contemporary dance. This event has established a lot and it has improved the communication between audiences.

The International Dance Council of Paris founded this festival and Aja Jung from Belgrade is the programme selector. The festival creates new audience, positive suggestions, educational contents and a very good attendance. It has also popularised modern dance and enabled dance art to reach wide audience through TV presentations.

Belgrade Dance Festival

Events Schedule:
9th April, Sava Centar, Italy
10th April, Novi Sad, Italy
11th April, Opera Madlenianum China
12th April, National Theatre, Portugal
13th April, Belgrade Drama Theatre, Belgium
15th April, Sava Center, Israel
16th April, National Theatre, Israel
17th April, Opera Madlenianum, France
19th April, Sava Center, UK
21st April, Yugoslav Drama Theatre, The Netherlands
23rd April, Sava Center, Switzerland

The Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia, the embassies, cultural centres and the Secretariat for Culture regularly regularly support this festival. Main partner in Vojvodina is The Provincial Secretariat of the Executive Assembly of AP of Vojvodina is the main partner of Belgrade Dance Festival.

March 29th, 2010 by soul4dance

Showbiz Competitions
Showbiz is a member of the Federation of Dance Competitions.

The purpose of the FDC is to enhance the competition experience by normalizing rules, simplifying competition experience as well as consistently insuring safe events. They serve as a forum for the consistent application of ethical standards relating to competition. These standards are rooted in the best mutual, and not exclusive, interests of all students, parents and studio teachers.

Showbiz has been in the industry for over 20 years and this competition is for intermediate to advanced students.

Showbiz Festival

Here are some of the changes for the 2010 season:

• A unified web site for all the competitions and events
• Finals are back with refined levels
• Expanded venues for the competition
• 10 additional performances has been added.

March 8th, 2010 by soul4dance

American Dance Festival
The 77th season of the American Dance Festival is to be held at Durham performing Arts Centre and Duke University’s Reynolds Industries Theater from June 10th to July 24th, 2010. The season line up will be announced on Friday, March 19th , 2010.

Mission:
• build wider national and international audiences
• enhance public understanding and appreciation of the art form
• provide a scientific base for training of young dancers
• encourage the creation of new modern dance by established  choreographers
• preserve our modern dance through presentation of classic works and archival efforts

The ADF remains one of the leading arts organizations in the United States. In 2009 it presented 30 works, 13 companies, eight world premieres, five company debuts, four reconstructed works, and a mini-festival of work. At the ADF School, over 423 students , 50 faculty and musicians observed, labored, and created one of the world’s best fertile environments. Twenty-seven countries and 38 states represented the festival which encompasses a variety of educational paths.

The ADF remains committed to serving the needs of dance, dancers, choreographers and dance professionals. The Festival’s programs have been expanded and altered to help accommodate the changes in the field. The latest curriculum includes classes in dance medicine, body therapies, as well as repertory, composition and all the major dance styles and techniques.  There are also professional workshops offered in teaching and performance, as well as a special program for younger dance students.

February 15th, 2010 by soul4dance

New England Folk Festival
The New England Folk Festival is a fabulous blend of dance, music, crafts, and food from many lands. The 66th annual Festival is to be held on April 23-25, 2010 in Mansfield, Massachusetts (near Boston).

NeffA-2010

This yearly event attracts thousands from the west coast, Michigan, Pennsylvania,New Jersey, New York, Canada, all the New England states and the rest of the world to its wonderful mix of particpatory dance (folk, square and contra), folk music and song, international food, crafts, performances, family-oriented activities, and much, much more.

Participatory Dance - A lot of contra and traditional square dancing, International Folk Dancing, dancing from specific regions, couple dancing, swing dancing, clogging, etc. All levels of expertise are featured and favorites are the contra dance medleys.

Dance performances - Costumed ethnic performing groups have been a part of NEFFA since the beginning. Some performances are done in the in the Main Hall, a large gym or on stage in the Auditorium. About a dozen morris teams dance outside the High School — a welcoming sight to new and returning Festival visitors.

Music - Jam sessions in the halls, instrument workshop sessions, performances of folk music, singing… Bring your instruments! Free instrument checking is provided. The South Room will be available on a sign-up basis for rehearsals and jam sessions.

Food - About a dozen booths serve food from all nations. The food is very good.

Crafts - Handmade items are for sale in the crafts room. Demonstrations of craftsmanship happen frequently.

February 12th, 2010 by soul4dance

Ethnic Dance Festival-2010

The 32nd annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is to be held from June 5-June 27, 2010 at the Palace of fine arts, San Francisco.

The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival was founded to present the diverse ethnic dance companies in the Bay Area. Over the years, the Festival has expanded its reach to include performers from throughout Northern California and has presented over 600 dance companies from over a hundred different genres.

Ethnic Dance Festival-2010

The 31st annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival featured 36 local dance companies representing over 20 distinct cultures. More than 500 Northern California dancers and musicians brought their repertoire to the Palace of Fine Arts over four weekends in June of this year. Over 11,000 local Bay Area arts lovers attended the performances, some for the first time, but many as part of an annual, cherished cultural tradition.

The Festival has presented over 14,000 dancers, with dancers from community groups performing alongside internationally recognized professionals, students beside masters, and cultural groups as different as Senegalese dancers from the Kaolak region and Mexican folkorico dancers from the Tobasco region all performing on the same stage. Each program features 7-11 companies. The Festival performers are selected from an annual audition, where each company has ten minutes to present its work, while soloists have five minutes. Participants in the field come from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and represent a broad range of occupations and lifestyles. Many are second and third generation dancers and musicians, and after so many years, the children of Festival pioneers are now recreating, preserving, and innovating important work as their contribution to contemporary culture.

Since 1978, the Festival’s performance have reached hundreds of thousands of audience members, providing excellent opportunities to artists who seek to present the dance expressions of their cultural and ethnic heritages.