Pictures of the Main stage, Harlequin Masterclass Studio and Harlequin Ballroom at MOVE IT today.
The MOVE IT Main Stage equipped with Harlequin Liberty™ and Harlequin Cascade™ “hosting spectacular performances from some of the most exciting artists and dance companies from all over the UK”.
The Harlequin Masterclass Studio is a dedicated, intimate space with a fully sprung Harlequin Liberty™ floor with Harlequin Studio™ dance surface created especially for advanced and professional dancers. “This year there are also practical workshops for dance teachers as part of the Teachers' Convention. The studio is hosting classes taught by some of the UK’s premiere teachers and dance companies”.
The MOVE IT Ballroom has a twist, “featuring exciting and unexpected classes including vintage style moves, sensual flamenco, Latin beats and swinging lindy hop”. Ballroom classes which include Flamenco, Rumba, Quickstep, Cha Cha Cha, Ballroom, Salsa, Lindy Hop, Latin Line Dance and Latin is danced “in comfort and style at the ballroom - now with a fully sprung Harlequin floor”.
Pictures of just some of the dancers who visited the Harlequin stand at MOVE IT today.
MOVE IT 2012 opened at London’s Olympia, Friday 9th March and continues until Sunday. So there is still time to visit the show and visit the Harlequin stand. Experience the sprung floor that is the same as the dancers are using on the Main Stage. And if you are into ballroom there is news here as well, with Harlequin also providing the floor for the MOVE IT Ballroom and of course the ever popular Harlequin Masterclass Studio.
MOVE IT 2012 opened at London’s Olympia today, Friday 9th March and continues Saturday and Sunday. So there is still time to visit the show and visit the Harlequin stand. Experience the sprung floor that is the same as the dancers are using on the Main Stage. And if you are into ballroom there is news here as well, with Harlequin also providing the floor for the MOVE IT Ballroom and of course the ever popularHarlequin Masterclass Studio.
Friday afternoon Harlequin’s Mark Rasmussen is teaming up with Dance UK’s Helen Laws on the Big Dance Interview Sofa to discuss the subject “Preventing Dancer Injury”.
MOVE IT 2012 is the UK's biggest dance event - a 3 day festival of dance expected to bring 20,000 dancers to Olympia - British Harlequin are located on on stand 130 exhibiting its full range of dance floor products and accessories in the main exhibition area, plus stand T03 in the ‘trade only’ section.
The MOVE IT Main Stage equipped with Harlequin Liberty™ and Harlequin Cascade™ “hosting spectacular performances from some of the most exciting artists and dance companies from all over the UK”, including Flawless and English National Ballet collaborating on a unique piece that fuses streetdance and ballet.
The Harlequin Masterclass Studio is a dedicated, intimate space with a fully sprung Harlequin Liberty™ floor with Harlequin Studio™ dance surface created especially for advanced and professional dancers. “This year there are also practical workshops for dance teachers as part of the Teachers' Convention. The studio is hosting classes taught by some of the UK’s premiere teachers and dance companies”.
The MOVE IT Ballroom has a twist, “featuring exciting and unexpected classes including vintage style moves, sensual flamenco, Latin beats and swinging lindy hop”. Ballroom classes which include Flamenco, Rumba, Quickstep, Cha Cha Cha, Ballroom, Salsa, Lindy Hop, Latin Line Dance and Latin is danced “in comfort and style at the ballroom - now with a fully sprung Harlequin floor”.
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Photo by Eammon McCabe |
Harlequin continued with financial support once again for DanceEast’s Rural Retreat 2012 for Future Directors and Creative Producers for Ballet and Dance. DanceEast’s 6th Rural Retreat this year focused on the role and challenges of ‘artistic direction‘. The 2012 Rural Retreat was hosted at the Ufford Park Hotel near the market town of Woodbridge, Suffolk and featured 26 current, emerging and aspiring artistic directors and creative producers from the worlds of ballet and dance.
DanceEast Director Assis Carreiro said “The role of artistic director is the most highly coveted and yet is the position which has had little or no rigorous review. There is no training or preparation for the biggest job in dance. More often than not, former dancers and choreographers are handed the top job with no qualifications or previous directorial experience. Not even football managers get away with this.”
