During Big Dance 2014 the East Midlands presented 8 performances which attracted audiences of over 4700 people, involved over 500 performers and 30 artists at festivals and live events in unexpected places across the region.
Highlights from this year’s events include:
Live Bolero – Live Bolero was delivered in partnership with Dance4, artsNK and The Core and was part of work developed with Nottingham Playhouse, including the creation of the Mass Bolero film..
Lustrum by Gary Clarke – Brought together 15 dance artists and five musicians or one five-piece band to devise, to create and showcase five dance works (a solo, a duet, a trio, a quartet and a quintet) in five days.
Bollyero – Fusing Torvill and Dean’s Bolero with South Asian dance, choreographer Laura Savage is working with BTEC performing arts dance students from Rushey Mead School, Leicester to create Bollyero