UK B-Boy Championships coming to Birmingham – from West Midlands Dance: We’ve been itching to announce that the UK B-Boy Championships – which sees the world’s finest b-boys and b-girls gather for battles in various individual and crew categories – will be hosted in Birmingham in 2013, at the O2 Academy on 21 and 22 September, having been held … [Read more…]
Back in October, not long after I moved to the City, I met Mike Hyde who talked me though the work DanceXchange have been doing for the past 20 years. Amongst the things we discussed was WestMidlandsDance.com – a resource that would be delivered by DanceXchange to continue the great work funded by the Cultural … [Read more…]
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 … [Read more…]
Dance blogs in the West Midlands If you like dance, these are the blogs to follow Tindal Street Press’s summer ebook success | Tindal St Press “This summer the clear genre appeal of a regional crime novel and a summer beach romance have reached more readers than we could have expected”. Nicely done. Iona Waite … [Read more…]
Good to see showings from Dancexchange, International Dance Festival Birmingham and Birmingham Royal Ballet in Dance! The Most Incredible Thing about Contemporary Dance which was on BBC4 recently. It’s on the iPlayer for… well, the next couple of hours. Hmm. Chris Keenan had some of his footage used and has written about that. Incidentally, if … [Read more…]
Bollywood Steps An outdoor dance spectacular that’s part of Birmingham Town Hall‘s 175th birthday celebrations. They’re hoping for up to have had up to 12,000 people take part. It’s being performed on Friday 9 October at 8pm and Saturday 10 October at 3pm and 8pm – and you can learn the steps half an hour … [Read more…]
Vote again for CiB – last few days Thanks to some fantastic support CiB has a slim lead in the voting. Polls close on Tuesday 13th at 10pm. Please vote daily (and encourage others) until then Screen WM – Birmingham filmmaker shortlisted for the Auteur Award “Birmingham filmmaker Steven Rainbow’s short film ‘A Small Silent … [Read more…]
Ones to watch in 2009 « West Midlands Dance The Guardian recommends a couple of Birmingham-based shows in its preview for 09 by the light divided Jack reviews gigs for Birmingham Live and this is his blog Our next production – The Rage Ensemble The Rage Ensemble “are looking for people to be part of … [Read more…]