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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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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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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 30, 2011 / 0 Comments
MDI’s Big Give Christmas Challenge
Feeling generous? City-based dance organisation MDI will have just five days next week to raise ?2000 in donations from members of the public in the next round of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2011. The donation challenge follows on from MDI???…
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November 20, 2011 / 0 Comments
MDI presents screening and talk with director Alex Ruben
Merseyside Dance Initiative hosts a screening, talk and question and answer session with director Alex Ruben tomorrow (Monday, November 21). His film NEWSREEL 1 is described as ” a poetic recording of social, cultural and political events from the…
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November 2, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: Strictly Gershwin, Liverpool Empire
???Well, it???s very professional, isn???t it,??? an elderly male voice behind us said to his companion, in a loud, flat voice at a quiet moment. My sister and I suppressed more than a giggle. It was exactly the sort of thing our granddad would say if he’…
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July 17, 2011 / 0 Comments
Diversity in Dance
The city’s carnival season is well underway, and as part of Brouhaha???s 2011 programme, the Unity will be hosting showcase performance Diversity In Dance on Tuesday (July 19). This year acts include companies from The Netherlands, Norway and Spain …
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April 27, 2011 / 1 Comment
Review: Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, Liverpool Empire
Taking away the pumpkins, carriages, fairy godmothers and all that is sweet and lovely about Cinderella as we know it, choreographer and director Matthew Bourne throws the well-known fairytale into the harsh reality of the Blitz. There???s not a tut…
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April 21, 2011 / 0 Comments
Phoenix Theatre Reflected at the Playhouse
Phoenix Dance Theatre returns to the Liverpool Playhouse next week with Reflected, a programme of four contrasting and musically diverse dance works. The company has a strong reputation for presenting engaging, moving and entertaining mixed progra…
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April 12, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: Thriller Live, Liverpool Empire
Things were getting a bit heavy round here; unfunny comedians, legendary comedians suffering the hecklers from hell and vowing never to come back to Liverpool; it was all getting a bit depressing on the live front. So, I moseyed along to the Empir…
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September 30, 2010 / 0 Comments
Acclaimed NYC dancer comes to Liverpool
A dancer described grandly as “the best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama” by Out Magazine will perform in Liverpool as part of the LEAP festival of dance in November. Kyle Abraham will join Denmark???s Clu…
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September 13, 2010 / 0 Comments
Come on – Vogue…
Who’s that gorgeous fellow? Why, it’s our own Darren Suarez, looking absolutely amazing and getting ready to recreate the New York cool of the Vogue ball in Liverpool. Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a diva? Here’s your chance to prove it… Dar…
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September 1, 2010 / 0 Comments
Dance premiere comes to the Playhouse
A programme of diverse dance works including a world premiere comes to the Playhouse for two nights only next month, when members of the Phoenix Dance Theatre bring their show Declarations to the Liverpool stage on September 15 & 16. Declarations …
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August 4, 2010 / 0 Comments
Riverdance star LEAPs into Liverpool
Merseyside Dance Initiative is excited to announce that former Riverdance star and Irish Dance marvel Colin Dunne is to bring his solo production Out Of Time to Liverpool???s Contemporary Urban Centre on Wednesday 20 October in celebration of the LE…
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