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July 11, 2018 / 0 Comments
LEAP returns with suffrage theme, marks 25 years of MDI
THE LEAP contemporary dance festival will return this November, organisers MDI have announced. The theme is suffrage, in a tribute to the suffragette movement marking 100 years since women were first given the right to vote. And in celebration of this, the festival will feature female protagonists in each of the dance performances, all of […]
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September 25, 2017 / 0 Comments
Football and dance combine in acclaimed performance coming to Liverpool
Five professional dancers will perform with five football players and even a referee, in an intriguing new piece of dance theatre coming to Liverpool for one performance only. The Match, by Barcelona-based international company Vero Cendoya Dance, will come to Toxteth’s FireFit hub pitch next month.
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August 28, 2017 / 3 Comments
Why Liverpool needs MDI
A few months ago when Arts Council England announced their funding allocation for the next four years, one of the shocks that came out of it was the dropping of Liverpool’s MDI as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO). Headlines around that time always focus on the positive, the theatres and companies that successfully secure another […]
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May 29, 2017 / 1 Comment
Pepperland and Sgt Pepper at 50
Once there was a way… that a city would celebrate its most famous sons by way of a day of indoctrinated cheap mop top wig-wearing, or a street festival so drunken and rowdy it eventually had to be banned. And as the Mathew St Festival went on to become LIMF, so Sgt Pepper at 50, […]
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May 11, 2017 / 1 Comment
Physical Fest dance theatre show at IWF
“A glittering tale of love, failure and illusion” is heading to the Invisible Wind Factory as part of Physical Fest. The Band is a new production by Levantes Dance Theatre, a tragi-comic story of faded pop duo Sandy and Bruno – a couple united by desperate ambition and blind affection. Artistic director Eleni Edipidi collaborates […]
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February 19, 2017 / 0 Comments
25 years of Liverpool dance festival LEAP
LEAP – Liverpool’s only annual festival of contemporary dance – shines a light on the city’s ‘invisible art form’ as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations this year. The festival, run by Hope Street-based dance organisation MDI (Merseyside Dance Initiative), begins a programme it describes as its “most bold and ambitious to date” from March […]
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November 14, 2016 / 0 Comments
Dance lecturer takes on TV talent shows in Strictly Sickly
Ever wondered what really happens behind the sequins and smiles on TV dance spectaculars? Strictly Sickly, which comes to the Capstone Theatre this week, brings to life the rumbas and the rivalries of a TV dance contest – and, just like in real life, the audience has the power to decide. It’s the final of Britain’s […]
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November 17, 2015 / 0 Comments
MDI celebrates the end of its 21st anniversary year
MDI will round off their 21st anniversary year this weekend with their African and Caribbean dance showcase, Bend Down Low. Taking place at The Florrie in Toxteth at 7pm on Saturday (November 21), they say the evening “looks set to be a fitting finale for what has been a wonderful year of celebrations”. MDI has […]
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October 30, 2015 / 1 Comment
REVIEW: That’s Amore, Unity Theatre
The wonderful Tmesis theatre has always been inspired and intrigued by love and human relationships. Thinking about past performances – the titular Tmesis, The Dreadful Hours, and what may have been the birth of this most recent project, their short 2013 Homotopia piece Variations of the Heart – searching for and putting a finger on […]
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October 26, 2015 / 0 Comments
Welsh composer celebrated in new theatrical piece
Multi-award winning choreographer Sally Marie presents an evocative balance of music, theatre and dance depicting the richly romantic life of one of Wales’ most distinguished classical composers, in a performance coming to the Capstone Theatre tomorrow (Tuesday, October 27). I Loved You and I Loved You has been developed in conjunction with National Theatre […]
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September 23, 2015 / 0 Comments
Vital dance for the young at heart
This week MDI, in collaboration with the Bluecoat, presents VITAL!; an international evening of dance by older people. Performing on the night will be The GOLD Company from Australia; the Grand Gestures Dance Collective from Gateshead, Liverpool’s own 50 Moves, Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully and Bisakha Sarker, and Marple Movers / Laughing Knees from Stockport, coming […]
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April 1, 2015 / 0 Comments
LEAP 2015: In conversation
The LEAP festival programme of contemporary dance goodies is over for another year. As it’s not so easy for me to get out and about to watch evening performances these days, I took the option of trundling along to one of their daytime talks, in particular the free event at MDI’s HQ, ‘Displaced Bodies: In […]
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February 7, 2015 / 0 Comments
Dance festival LEAP returns for 2015
Next month sees the return of Liverpool dance organisation MDI’s regular LEAP festival – this year part of its 21st birthday celebrations to boot. LEAP 2015 aims to bring quality contemporary dance experiences to the city, and will offer not just the chance to see performances at the Unity and the Capstone Theatre, but the […]
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August 28, 2014 / 0 Comments
MDI’s over 50s to perform at Sadler’s Wells
Two older people’s dance companies who perform as part of Merseyside Dance Initiative have been chosen to take part in a national festival at specialist London venue Sadler’s Wells. The groups, Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully (or GODS, pictured), and MDI’s over 50s class 50 Moves, will participate in the Elixir Festival, happening in September. The […]
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June 22, 2014 / 0 Comments
To boldly vogue…
The fierce and fabulous multi award-winning Vogue Ball has announced its plans for 2014, returning for its 5th birthday with The Space Oddity. On Saturday October 4, the ball’s new venue The Rum Warehouse in the docklands will be, we’re told, transformed in to an “incredible intergalactic space station”. Ooer. Last years Gods […]
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November 12, 2013 / 0 Comments
Vogue Deco and other stories
The Vogue Ball might be one of the most outrageous, anything goes nights in Liverpool’s calendar, but you can see a whole new side to it this weekend at the Bluecoat. The massive dance event, masterminded by city choreographer and vogue expert Darren Suarez, took place in October but will be reliving some of […]
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November 10, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Dance Triple Bill, Unity Theatre
Part of the Homotopia programme, this unimaginatively named evening belied the wonderful variety of performance to be found within. Led by an all female line up of performers, the three pieces were a combination of funny, touching, gaudy, gentle and thought-provoking works that fitted together for an entertaining mix. Leed-based De Nada Dance Theatre’s […]
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November 6, 2013 / 1 Comment
English National Ballet and MDI Dance for Parkinsons
The English National Ballet has launched its national Dance for Parkinson’s programme at Merseyside Dance Initiative, with the aim of giving local people the opportunity to benefit from weekly dance classes and to see the company perform Nutcracker at the Empire Theatre later this month. ENB and Hope Street’s MDI say they share a […]
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October 8, 2013 / 0 Comments
MDI’s Northern Dances
The tireless – and awesome – Merseyside Dance Initiative showcases a selection of provocative new dance by northern artists in the city this week. Northern Dances, this Thursday (October 10) at the Capstone Theatre, presents six works by rising stars of dance based in Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Now a regular autumn fixture […]
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October 1, 2013 / 0 Comments
Gods and Monsters: The Vogue Ball
“This year’s Vogue Ball is certainly not for the faint-hearted, it will ricochet between dark scary lands and places beyond the clouds in a decadent and debauched meeting of celestial beings, icons, men and monsters, all showing off their seedy and seductive night moves on the UK’s most messed-up catwalk show,” they say. SOLD. […]
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