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Links for 6 July 2012

Chris Unitt — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:45:54 +0000

Notorious – music to taste wine by!!
‘The choir with a difference’ with their latest trailer. The show’s on Sat 14 July
Suki10c Promotional Video – YouTube
Another very nicely done video: “See how we have transformed a derelict, crumbling, abandoned space into a creative, artistic and vibrant space, a space for all to utilise in Bohemian creative ventures”
Mandala
“A fusion of international British Asian music, dance, stunning visuals and architecture”. Coming to Victoria Sq in September. This trailer’s really very nice
Spill films on The Space
“Spill – a playground of dance, the Dancing for the Games project which has been touring the West Midlands over the last six weeks, has been made into a series of films and will be shown on The Space”
Zoe’s Magic Camera
Zoe’s Magic Camera allows you to find hidden creatures in Birmingham as part of the outdoor performance festival, Six Summer Saturdays which is produced by Birmingham Hippodrome

The launch of IDFB 2012

Chris Unitt — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:09:01 +0000

Yesterday lunchtime I went along to the launch of International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012. For the uninitiated, IDFB is a massive festival of dance organised by Dancexchange and the Hippodrome.

There’s a good round-up of what’s being planned over on West Midlands Dance.

There’s plenty of good stuff lined up, but the bits that made me nudge the person next to me and go ‘huh, that’ll be interesting’ were:

Wings of Desire (the big dance spectacular in Victoria Sq), with Circa and 2FaCeD DaNcE Company
Dave St-Pierre Company – Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde! (which generated a tonne of controversy in London a couple of months ago)

I like IDFB. It was probably the first one, back in 2008, that got me interested in dance in the first place. I then worked on the 2010 festival and managed to pack in 18 shows over the course of its month-long run. This one looks like being another good one.

Mandala

Chris Unitt — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:02:00 +0000

Sampad are planning a new project:

MANDALA is a unique and bold new collaboration fusing classical and contemporary South Asian dance and music with 3D architectural projection mapping.

We plan to use one of the world’s most advanced real-time tracking systems to use the movement of the dancers, musicians and the audience to generate the imagery live, enabling you to push, pull and manipulate the building.

Which sounds pretty impressive to me. They’re co-producing this with Seeper who are responsible for some of the most impressive projection mapping I’ve seen.

They’re using Wefund to collect donations for the £5,000 required to make this happen. Donations are welcome and here’s a video explaining the project a bit more.