Created in Birmingham » Ballet http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Linking up Birmingham's Artistic and Creative Communities Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Dance round-up – April 09 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2009/04/27/dance-round-up-april-09/ http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2009/04/27/dance-round-up-april-09/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:38:20 +0000 Chris Unitt http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=3538 Hi everyone, it’s me again. You may or may not know (or care – it’s ok, I can take it) that I’m now running the West Midlands Dance website. This is the first in a series of monthly round-ups I’ll be contributing here. So…

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Starting with a biggie – the People Dancing programme has been launched. This is a programme to encourage mass public participation in dance and dance-related events and is the main focus of the Cultural Olympiad for the West Mids. Info, documents and potential partners are over on the West Midlands Dance website.

It’s been announced that the British Dance Edition 2010 will be held in Birmingham on 3-6 February 2010.

There’s been plenty from Birmingham Royal Ballet who have announced their season for 2009/2010. They’ve been touring recently, with some of the dancers contributing to a blog. Also, the Guardian wrote a rather flattering guide to the company as part of their step-by-step series.

The latest Youth Dance England newsletter is out.

Breakin Convention is off on tour with several local breakdancing crews joining international acts at the Hippodrome on 12 & 13 May.

Last, and anything but least, a video from the last Project X Presents event, Digital Dystopia (link to video):

Read the fairly mind-boggling explanation and make sure the next Project X event is in your diary – it’s in Moseley on 9 May – Xhibition.

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]]> http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2009/04/27/dance-round-up-april-09/feed/ 1 Birmingham Royal Ballet freebies http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/15/birmingham-royal-ballet-freebies/ http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/09/15/birmingham-royal-ballet-freebies/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:12:24 +0000 Chris Unitt http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=2054 The Big Picture people have news of the Birmingham Royal Ballet offering free tickets for a preview of their upcoming show, ‘Russian Steps‘ on 8 October at the Hipodrome.

The new show consists of three ballets by Russian composers:

  • ‘Concerto’ is a pure dance piece from master choreographer Kenneth MacMillan.
  • ‘The Firebird’ is a magical Russian fairytale in which love conquers evil.
  • ‘Raymonda Act III’ is the quick-footed classical finale from a longer ballet, originally the wedding celebrations of the hero and heroine.

Which all sounds lovely and excellent.  Definitely worth a go if you’ve not got anything else planned for 8 October and want to try something different.

If you want to snaffle some tickets then email your name, address and the number of tickets you want (don’t take the proverbial) to newattenders@brb.org.uk.

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