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!

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.

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.

January 11th, 2010 by Jessy

The viewers were gathered by the rhythm of Odissi in Jayadev Bhawan, Bhubaneswar on the 3rd day of 5-day long 15th National Youth Festival 2010. The dance, style, instrument and music presented by youth dancers from different States charmed the audience with traditional flavor and attractive poses of Odissi dance.

15th National Youth Festival was organized by the Govt. of Orissa in collaboration with the Govt. of India in Youth Affairs and Sports Department; it has been conducted successfully in Orissa with careful planning and neat execution of programmes.

The Karnataka male dancer attracted the whole mass by bringing vibration towards his dancing styles. Andhra Pradesh, Chhatishgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh Dancers revealed a desire of endless happiness.

The morning session of this festival was occupied by Kuchhipudi dance in which dancers from West Bengal, Anuradha Roy and V.P. Supriya from Karnatak, P. Vaishnavi from Tamilnadu, S. Abhinava from Andhra Pradesh, Rasi Dave from Madhya Pradesh, Megha C.M. from Kerala, Sruti Jain from chhatishgarh, Aparna from Kerala and S. Sarat Kumar from Orissa were performed in a great manner.

Harmonium and Tabla music played by different Artists from different states brought an extraordinary rare melody in the minds of Youth representatives.

One Act Play at Rabindra Mandap, Folk Dance at Bhanja Kala Mandap, Rock Dance at Exhibition Ground, Unit-III and Babul Supriyo Music in the Kalinga Stadium were main features of the Festival.

In addition to these events, the Food Festival, Handicrafts Exhibition and Sand Art of Swami Vivekananda made by well-known sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik at Unit-III Exhibition Ground were foremost attractions for viewers.

December 30th, 2009 by Jessy

More than hundred foreign visitors participated in sunburn dance for Asia’s Premier Electronic Music festival, in candolim, Goa from 27^th to 29th. Dmark and Nikhil Chinapa are the festival director of this third year celebration.

The festival has invited global clubbing brand and dance behemoth Gatecrasher for the label stage.

Shalindera Singh, director of the dance programme, said that “Sunburn is a festival which allows you to be who you are and fortunately through the platform of music which I think is a universal language of celebration. We are really fortunate that Goa has India’s own festival of music and dance called Sunburn which is not only India’s largest but also Asia’s number one”.

December 23rd, 2009 by Jessy

Leaning her body off a steep ledge, a lady dived towards the ground and landed facedown over a blue foam carpet. Running at high speed, a guy evaded a swinging cement cinder block while jumping into the air. This type of dangerous dance is very rare, but STREB is not a normal dance company.

Daredevil is the name of this dangerous dance troupe and the founder of this gang is Elizabeth Streb. While studying dance in university, Elizabeth Streb felt that traditional dance styles didn’t push her body and mind much.

In 1975, Streb started a dance company, later she got a passion of learning a lot about the effect of movement on matter, and so she studied math, physics and philosophy at New York University. Using the utmost physical limits as her canvas, she started to increase her dance routine to farther extreme, using large-scale industrial prop and meticulous, more dangerous, steps. She says, in this way she has a great attraction for the achievements of Olympic athletes.

Their future performance in Vancouver will be the troupe’s first performance on Canada’s west coast. According to Streb, local viewers will never have seen a dance like it before, “This will be a great bold new form of entertainment”

December 12th, 2009 by Jessy

Salsa dancing: Paddy Jones, a 75 years old British grandmother is the winner of Spanish ‘got talent’ show, which is equivalent of “Britain’s Got Talent” show. She won with an amazing gymnastic salsa routines. She stunned audience and judges with her flips, leaps, shimmies, spin and slide, regardless of age.

Jones, who stays in Spain, was originally from Stourbridge in the West Midlands. Actually Jones is a grandmother of seven and she learned salsa dancing five years ago, after the death of her husband.

She came with Nico, 40 years junior dance instructor and performed with a dark and tight dress.The judges were shocked as she blew the crowd away. The pair won $15,000 for their victory.

Jones said to the London Times, “I feel I’m very lucky for what I do and I will continue as long as I can and I’m the living proof to prove that age is not a barrier”.