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April 2021
Colonisation in Reverse: Jean-Léon Destiné Exhibition
Jean-Léon Destiné (1918 – 2013) is known for his choreography that addresses Haiti’s history of resistance again colonialism and slavery. Featuring archival materials, some of which have never been presented in public before, Jean-Léon Destiné’s rich and colourful career is brought to life. Colonisation in Reverse: Jean-Léon Destiné Exhibition is part of Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF), an annual international dance festival produced by Serendipity UK. The festival features performances, discussions, workshops and a conference exploring dance as a medium for positive change. Image…
Find out more »Spot a Day Dance Diary: Patricia Vester
Patricia Vester is an illustrator and artist based in Potsdam, Germany. For Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2021, Patricia Vester will be artist in residence, creating original responses to the festival, as she documents and encapsulates movement and dance, through visual art. Image credit - Illustration by Patricia Vester
Find out more »LDIF21 Launch
Join us on Zoom on Thursday 29 April at 6:00pm to celebrate International Dance Day and the start of this year's multifaceted festival. Pawlet Brookes, CEO and Artistic Director, Serendipity, will introduce this year's programme followed by a sharing of Joseph Toonga's Born to Manifest film series ahead of the outdoor performance of Born to Protest in June.
Find out more »Black British Dance Platform
The Black British Dance Platform will showcase new and innovative work by British based artists from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora. FUBUNATION Ruins Ruins opens a dialogue surrounding the myth of masculinity as it is felt within the Pan-African diaspora. FUBUNATION are deconstructing the power struggle within themselves and finding the balance between conflict, vulnerability, and co-dependency. By doing so, they own and repair their deeper anxieties that they have learned so well to mask. FUBUNATION is a dance…
Find out more »May 2021
Black British Dance Platform: In Conversation
Aimed at promoters, programmers and producers, this in conversation is an opportunity to hear more from the artists participating in the Black British Dance platform. The ticket link is to purchase a ticket to watch the dance shorts in person at Serendipity's Dialogue Box. The dance shorts will also be available online. Black British Dance Platform: In Conversation is part of Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF), an annual international dance festival produced by Serendipity UK. The festival features performances, discussions, workshops and a…
Find out more »Digital Dance and Discussion
Join us for a curated programme of dance films exploring storytelling, identity and expression. Following the screening, take the opportunity to delve deeper through a discussion of the work. The ticket link is to purchase a ticket to watch the screening in person at Serendipity's Dialogue Box. The dance films will also be available on the day online on this page. Digital Dance and Discussion is part of Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF), an annual international dance festival produced by Serendipity. The…
Find out more »JOMBA! Digital Edge: Intimacies of Isolation
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit South African in March of 2020, and with the ensuing lockdown and the curtailing of any live performance, the South African JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Festival (going into its 22nd edition in 2020), hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, moved the festival online and into the digital domain. Jabu Siphika Ya kutosha – An intimate and terrifying exploration of gender-based violence and what it means to be trapped in the home. Dancer/Choreographer:…
Find out more »LDIF21 Online Conference – Creating Socially Engaged Art: Can Dance Change the World?
Livestreamed/Zoom BSL Interpreted and Auto Captioned Through dance, artists have brought to light untold issues and taboos, codified, developed and raised the profile of dance techniques from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora and engaged with audiences and their communities in innovative ways. This conference seeks to highlight the impact that Black communities in particular have made to the international dance ecology. Contributors include: Jeanette Bain-Burnett (UK) - director of participation at the Trussell Trust and Formerly Head of Community Engagement,…
Find out more »Spirit of Jazz: BOP Jazz Theatre Company
Spirit of Jazz is a collection of BOP repertoire and concert dance works and performances, capturing the individual and collective human spirit and creative expression of the jazz dance theatre art form. With original jazz compositions and arrangements by Paul Jenkins and choreography by Dollie Henry. Spirit of Jazz: BOP Jazz Theatre Company is part of Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF), an annual international dance festival produced by Serendipity. The festival features performances, discussions, workshops and a conference exploring dance as a medium for…
Find out more »Globally Connecting: My Voice, My Practice In Conversation
This In Conversation event, featuring Pawlet Brookes and some of the contributors from Serendipity's latest publication, My Voice, My Practice: Black Dance, will be an opportunity to listen to the voices of practitioners as they discuss their career history, techniques, pedagogy and performance practice, as they work to dismantle any perceptions of homogeneity when it comes to dance by, from and for the African and African Caribbean Diaspora. Panellists include Eduardo Vilaro, Makeda Thomas and Thomas Prestø. My Voice, My…
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