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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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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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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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January 30, 2017 / 0 Comments
Unity Theatre now officially ‘Out of Space’!
Times are changing at the Unity, which has closed its doors to the public while undergoing a radical overhaul. But the show, as they say, goes on, and the theatre will be taking its spring programme to venues around Merseyside for what they are calling their ‘Out of Space’ season. After an initial setback – […]
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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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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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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 1, 2014 / 0 Comments
MDI to take over Anfield with Big Dance event
On Sunday July 13, Merseyside Dance Initiative will be staging one of their biggest events ever. We Are the City will “represent the rich tapestry of Liverpool people”, according to the organisation, as they plan to top off a summer of dance events. We Are the City will aim to celebrate the local community, engaging […]
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January 12, 2014 / 0 Comments
An Infinite Line of Merseyside dance
Our friends at Merseyside Dance Initiative are working on a whole host of interesting new projects at the mo, and this is one; a big three-year partnership that intends to explore the Merseyside coast through movement and dance. A new collaborative project with Fevered Sleep, a London-based company “with a reputation for producing challenging […]
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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, 2012 / 0 Comments
MDI presents Northern Dances
Some of the most interesting and innovative dance work being created by northern artists will be showcased at the Unity Theatre this week Northern Dances, presented by Merseyside Dance Initiative on Thursday (October 11) brings together talented c…
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July 12, 2012 / 0 Comments
Big Dance link up hits Liverpool ONE
More than 1,200 dancers will fill up Liverpool ONE this weekend, as one of the highlights of a dance event inspired by London 2012. A show-stopping season of dance comes to a head next month when the Big Dance North West Link Up hits Liverpool ONE…
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April 25, 2012 / 0 Comments
MDI’s Dance Day marks Central Station closure
Liverpool Central Station closed this week for a six month refurb, a move that has left commuters mighty peeved indeed. Inconvenienced? Why not dance those blues away! In the great traditions of Michael Jackson’s Bad video and, erm, Starlight Expr…
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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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October 25, 2011 / 0 Comments
Final curtain for legendary dance company The Featherstonehaughs
All-male dance company The Featherstonehaughs invite you to come and celebrate with them as they take to the stage for the very last time with the acclaimed 2010 work Edits at CUC Liverpool on November . The Featherstonehaughs are one of the most …
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October 21, 2010 / 0 Comments
MOBO success for MDI
Congratulations to MDI, who can now proudly add a MOBO to their list of accolades. Merseyside Dance Initiative won the BeMOBO award for its outstanding achievement in community engagement and grassroots work, at the glittering show at the arena la…
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