Be part of the LEAP 2010 Year of Dance with a ‘You Tube’ competition to perform a dance piece in front of a sell-out theatre audience.
Merseyside Dance Initiative and the Merseyside Dance Promoters Network have announced an exciting public dance competition for LEAP 2010 using the year’s theme of ‘Dance and Technology’.
Dance enthusiasts, on any level, can participate in this year’s festival by recording themselves dancing to a piece of music and loading it onto the world’s most popular online video community ‘You Tube’.
The most exciting and innovative dance entry in each category will perform their dance piece in front of a sell-out audience at the Community Showcase at the Liverpool Playhouse on Saturday 6th March 2010.
Popular TV programmes such as ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ with winning dance acts George Sampson and Diversity, have catapulted dance in the spotlight of all over the UK. Along with LEAP’s Year-long Programme celebrating the dance festival’s 18th Birthday, dance in the region has hit an all-time peak.
The competition dance categories are 14-24 years and Over 25’s, the dance piece can include between 1-3 people. The dance should be accompanied by music and can be any preferred dance style to a maximum of 3 minutes long.
The dance piece can be recorded using a mobile phone, iphone or cam recorder and loaded on to a personal ‘You Tube’ account (www.youtube.com).
A link of the dance piece should then be emailed to info@mdi.org.uk with ‘You Tube Competition’ in the subject line.
The following information should also be included in the email...
Name:
Contact telephone number:
Age (Parental consent if under 16):
Title of dance piece:
Title of music:
Length of piece:
Description of piece in no more than 50 words:
The closing date for entries is Monday 8th February. The recordings will be judged and entrants will be notified by Friday 27th February. The shortlisted entries will be added to MDI’s ‘You Tube’ account, social network sites and the LEAP2010 and MDI websites.
Winners must be available to rehearse and perform their dance on Saturday 6th March, they will also win 4 tickets for their family and friends to watch them perform.
For further competition information visit www.mdi.org.uk or call 0151 708 8810.
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