The return of the fifth award-winning biennial International Dance Festival Birmingham (IDFB 2016) will see venues, streets and squares across the city and beyond welcome one of the world’s biggest celebrations of dance. IDFB 2016 runs from 1 – 22 May, featuring world premieres and new commissions over three amazing weeks. Highlights include: an exciting … [Read more…]
RoguePlay Theatre, Birmingham’s Highly Physical Theatre Company, are having their latest Aerialists Showcase on Saturday 9th May, 7.30pm -10.30pm, in Digbeth, Minerva Works on Fazeley Street. RoguePlay, founded in 2009, can most likely be found hanging from a trapeze, or silk, balancing, lifting or throwing one another, all while speaking a monologue, singing a song … [Read more…]
International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016 has put a callout for proposals of work to be performed in ‘Outdoor Places or Unusual Spaces’ (OPUS) for the 2016 edition of the festival. To see full details go to the full brief on the DanceXchange site: http://www.dancexchange.org.uk/about/commissions-auditions IDFB is inviting professionals to submit a great idea and concept for a new … [Read more…]
It’s not just in the city centre that exciting arts events are happening. This week in Yardley a school group will be promoting their local community centre in what could be the start of an interesting new arts/community space. Children from Oasis Academy Hobmoor have joined with Coventry-based digital-dance company Mercurial Arts to create a … [Read more…]
Following IDFB’s spectacular outdoor productions in each edition of the festival, 2014 sees pioneering performers from the world of street dance brought together in a show stopping new production, B-Town. Referencing the ancient and the futuristic, B-Town sees elemental forces of good and evil harness the energy of our city, battling across the continents in … [Read more…]
With all the build-up and enthusiasm for dance performances during IDFB I feel well and truly ready for BE Festival 2014. Having not personally attended BE Festival before I was a little unsure of what to expect, and so took the opportunity to visit the 2014 launch at Birmingham Rep on the 16th April. I … [Read more…]
We are all very excited to tell you about the return of the International Dance Festival Birmingham 2014! You will be able to experience a range of performances from ballet to large non-choreographed social dances. With so many brilliant performances to talk about, the following will just be a selection of my top picks for the … [Read more…]
There is a brand new outdoor Circus Theatre performance being developed by RoguePlay in Birmingham. EVER WANTED TO JOIN THE CIRCUS? Well, now you can. RoguePlay has been funded by Birmingham City Council to train 12 local people in a variety of skills so they can rehearse and perform alongside us in our next big outdoor … [Read more…]