Merseyside Dance Initiative is delighted to announce their involvement in the Dance On the Waterfront Festival, which takes place at Liverpool’s Albert Dock and Pier Head from Fri 6th - Sun 8th August.
Get ready to LEAP out and about! In celebration of the LEAP year of dance, a fantastic line up of local performers will take to the River Stage from 1 – 5pm on Saturday 7th August.
There will be a plethora of international dance styles, offering a fantastic opportunity to take notice and connect with dance - a great way to improve your Health and Wellbeing.
African Dance artist Lamin Dumbuya, will perform a short solo piece before opening the floor to the public for African Dance Classes throughout the afternoon, sure to have the whole family active and dancing along!
You can learn more about dance by taking in a passionate Tango as Tango Liverpool take to the stage before offering you the opportunity to fine tune those staccato movements in a Tango workshop with Linda Wilton.
Also performing is Fenfen Huang of local dance company China Pearl who will perform a traditional Chinese solo piece.
Continuing the world dance theme is Movema, who have just taken up residency in the newly renovated Black-E and community involvement features with a 15 minute dance piece from MDI’s Community Dance Group, created as part MDI's African Dance Summer School.
Darren Suarez, founder of the House of Suarez and recipient of one of Culture Liverpool’s 10 for 2010 Commissions, will vogue his way onto stage to entertain the crowds with one of his outstanding performances, after local contemporary dancer Adele Slachmuylders, also a recipient of one of Culture Liverpool’s 10 for 2010 Commissions, performs Dauntless Circle.
Dauntless Circle invites you into a world of dynamics and iterations. The piece has a sense of growth and wellbeing and will take the audience through a personal journey through dance.
Get ready to LEAP along with MDI on the Waterfront, sure to be a fantastic afternoon of dance.
LEAP 2010 festival Director and Artistic Director of MDI Karen Gallagher said:
"2010 has been the best year for dance in Merseyside so far and with Liverpool City Council's continued commitment to dance via Culture Liverpool throughout the year has brought about increased investment to dance, culminating in this our first Dance on The Waterfront.
"It has been wonderful to support Walk the Plank and produce our very own MDI Riverside Dance Stage as part of the programme and we look forward to seeing dance continue to be centre stage as part of Liverpool's future events across the City”.
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