Nottingham based Dance4 celebrates a successful 25 years this year to a new home set to provide a fully accessible international centre for dance and choreography right in the heart of the city. Harlequin Floors played an important role in equipping the new dance studios with Harlequin Activity floor completed with a black vinyl Standfast floor surface in Studio 1, Activity also in Studio 3, but here with a grey Standfast dance surface and for Studio 2, a Harlequin WoodSpring floor with maple surface.
Rachel Emmett, Head of Finance and Operations at Dance4 says “ We chose Harlequin because they are the industry standard for top quality, professional dance floors. We wanted to have the best supplier to fulfil our ambition to create a world-class facility for choreography and dance.” Dance4 is an independent charity and dance development agency working with international artists who are working within 21st century choreographic practice. With 25 years experience of supporting the development of contemporary dance and choreography Dance4 believes dance is for everyone and runs an acclaimed Centre for Advanced Training in dance.
On the 31st March 2016 Dance4 held a very special Charity Celebration Benefit Gala at the wonderful location of the Council House Ballroom, in the heart of Nottingham. The great and the good from the city joined friends from further afield to celebrate Dance4’s 25th year and helped raise funds for Dance4’s international Centre for Choreography due to open this summer. The Gala featured a fabulous three-course meal accompanied by glorious entertainment all hilariously hosted by Pete Shenton from New Art Club.
Natifah White - Dance4’s Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) in Dance graduate - performed the solo that earned her a place at The Place. Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers, Tyrone Singleton and Céline Gittens, performed a mesmeric duet from Swan Lake and cheeky Spiltmilk Dance performed vignettes throughout the evening, culminating in a social dance for everyone to join in.
There were plenty of ways to fundraise throughout the evening including a ‘Silent Auction’, a ‘High-speed Hilarious Heads and Tails’ with a twist and a ‘Build a Heavenly Harlequin Dance Floor’ special raffle. Guest were given the opportunity to buy samples of Harlequin Dance floor to literally build a dance floor for the new international Centre for Choreography. Guests wrote their name on the back of their samples and handed them to students from Dance4’s CAT to lay out onto the floor to create a colourful dance floor in the centre of the resplendent Council House Ballroom. Once the samples were pieced together to create the dance floor, the fun really began, as a piece at a time was upturned to reveal the winners. The samples made a real contribution to Dance4's Campaign25 and helped raise vital funds for the new centre.
It was a wonderful opportunity for people to feel they were contributing in a very real way by helping Dance4 to establish an exemplar creative facility whilst having great fun and winning prizes too!
The Harlequin team is looking forward to future opportunities for working with Dance4.
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