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28/08/2019
Disability Dance Group Holds Street Festival
One of Northern Ireland's most dynamic arts and disability organisations is set to host an inclusive dance festival in Belfast next month in celebration of the 10th anniversary of one of its dance groups.
Luminous Soul is the only contemporary dance development programme for disabled people in Northern Ireland and features members with a range of disabilities, including physical, sensory, learning disabilities and mental health illness.
Participants will dance with professionals and amateurs from across the world from 05-07 September 2019, with a free public performance at Cornmarket on Saturday 07 September at 1pm.
Now in its eighth year, MeetShareDance is an international workshop dance festival which is based around the ideas of inclusivity and exchange. It aims to raise the profile of integrated dance in artistic and everyday life. The festival has previously taken place in Porto, Madrid, Helsinki, Berlin, Lubjana and Dublin - this will be its first visit to Northern Ireland.
Eileen Branagh, Chief Executive of Open Arts said: "MeetShareDance embodies the ethos of what Luminous Soul as a disability dance group has been doing for the past 10 years. We bring people of all abilities together to learn to dance, make new connections and share their talents with each other and the public.
"Over a decade of dance, Luminous Soul members have worked with and been trained by some of the most well known inclusive choreographers in the UK and Ireland and some have even gone on to have their own successful careers in professional dance. We're really looking forward to celebrating the group's achievements with dancers from all over Europe at MeetShareDance in Belfast in September."
During the festival, forty amateur and professional dancers from eight countries - Spain, Portugal, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg, UK, Slovenia - will take part in three days of inclusive dance workshops at the Crescent Arts Centre. Participants in MeetShareDance will then showcase their skills to the public with a performance of a newly devised collaborative piece in Cornmarket at 1pm on Saturday 7 September.
Gilly Campbell, Head of Community Arts and Education at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland said:"The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is committed to providing opportunities for everyone to access and engage with the arts. Congratulations to Open Arts on celebrating ten years of providing high-quality dance development opportunities, for people with disabilities, through the Luminous Soul programme and we look forward to the Meet Share Dance Festival coming to Belfast to mark the occasion this September."
(JG/MH)
Luminous Soul is the only contemporary dance development programme for disabled people in Northern Ireland and features members with a range of disabilities, including physical, sensory, learning disabilities and mental health illness.
Participants will dance with professionals and amateurs from across the world from 05-07 September 2019, with a free public performance at Cornmarket on Saturday 07 September at 1pm.
Now in its eighth year, MeetShareDance is an international workshop dance festival which is based around the ideas of inclusivity and exchange. It aims to raise the profile of integrated dance in artistic and everyday life. The festival has previously taken place in Porto, Madrid, Helsinki, Berlin, Lubjana and Dublin - this will be its first visit to Northern Ireland.
Eileen Branagh, Chief Executive of Open Arts said: "MeetShareDance embodies the ethos of what Luminous Soul as a disability dance group has been doing for the past 10 years. We bring people of all abilities together to learn to dance, make new connections and share their talents with each other and the public.
"Over a decade of dance, Luminous Soul members have worked with and been trained by some of the most well known inclusive choreographers in the UK and Ireland and some have even gone on to have their own successful careers in professional dance. We're really looking forward to celebrating the group's achievements with dancers from all over Europe at MeetShareDance in Belfast in September."
During the festival, forty amateur and professional dancers from eight countries - Spain, Portugal, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg, UK, Slovenia - will take part in three days of inclusive dance workshops at the Crescent Arts Centre. Participants in MeetShareDance will then showcase their skills to the public with a performance of a newly devised collaborative piece in Cornmarket at 1pm on Saturday 7 September.
Gilly Campbell, Head of Community Arts and Education at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland said:"The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is committed to providing opportunities for everyone to access and engage with the arts. Congratulations to Open Arts on celebrating ten years of providing high-quality dance development opportunities, for people with disabilities, through the Luminous Soul programme and we look forward to the Meet Share Dance Festival coming to Belfast to mark the occasion this September."
(JG/MH)
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