LDIF18 Launch: Meet Nora Chipaurmire
LDIF18 Launch: Meet Nora Chipaumire With LDIF18 just over a week away, we cannot wait to celebrate International Dance Day at the 2Funky Music Café on the 29 April.…
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An interview with Germaine Acogny
Last week we set off again on our travels, this time to Brussels where Germaine Acogny was performing ahead of her performance at Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2018 (LDIF) next…
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What is Jookin?
Ahead of Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2017 I have had the privileged of interviewing Phoebe Driscoll Director of Pharaohs of Memphis. This is Phoebe’s international premier in the UK! What…
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Signatures Catch-Up: Dan Daw
With a New Year comes a new LDIF programme, and with a new LDIF programme comes a plethora of performers for the Signatures event. As always, we are keen…
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Interview | Urban Bush Women’s Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Today I had an amazing Skype chat in the Serendipity office with Urban Bush Women’s founder and artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. She spoke eloquently about her inspirations, her company…
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Interview | Funmi Adewole & British Black Women In Dance
The other day I had a fantastic interview with international dance academic and lecturer Funmi Adewole about the current circumstances for Black women in the British dance industry. Funmi has…
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Interview with Ellie Walton | Digital Marketing for Dance
The other day I conducted an informal interview with our new Digital Marketing Apprentice Ellie Walton about her experience with Serendipity so far. Today’s social media has a real impact on…
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Interview with Volunteer Danni Spooner: 15 tickets left!
I conducted an informal interview with one of our volunteers Danni Spooner to discuss the exciting line up for this year’s Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2016! With performances from Cameron McKinney and…
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Urban Bush Women 1987, Leicester. How was that?!
It is time to start getting excited about Urban Bush Women coming to perform at this year’s Let’s Dance International Festival! Even better, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is keynote speaker at…
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What Everyone Ought to Know about Black Female Choreographers in the US
The Black Women in Dance: Stepping Out of the Barriers conference in May 2016 will see dance enthusiasts unite with Urban Bush Women to reflect upon the challenges that have…
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Black Female Dancers in America (featuring Maya Taylor)
The Black Women In Dance: Stepping Out of the Barriers conference will see Urban Bush Women and other international dance artists and academics discuss the achievements of diversity within our…
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Akram Khan Company Interview – Why Chotto Desh?
Yesterday evening I attended Akram Khan Company’s Chotto Desh at Leicester’s Curve Theatre, and interviewed rehearsal director Amy Butler and dancer Nicolas Ricchini. Meaning “Small Homeland”, I was truly excited…
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