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| EVENT | The Mad Hatters Swing Dance Club |
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| DATE | Wednesday 27 February 2008, 8pm |
| Our style is East Coast Swing, also known as Jitterbug, and
is jiving to quick music. 8pm for beginners, 9pm for intermediates. Social dancing until 11pm. Every Wednesday in Bedworth. |
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| VENUE | Trent Valley House WMC, New Street, Bedworth CV12 9DL |
| TICKETS | £5 |
| DETAILS | dawnandalistair@fortfitz.com |
| EVENT | James son of James |
| DATE | Tuesday 26 February to Saturday 1 March 2008, 7.30pm |
| Performed by Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre. James son of James is a story of accidental heroism, hero worship, sadness, love, power, betrayal and revenge, told through dance, theatre, live song, original music and outrageous humour by eleven extraordinary, international performers. James returns home for his father's funeral having been away for eleven years. He is late and misses the burial. He becomes embroiled in the lives of ten characters: the local politician, his wife and son, the policeman and his wife, a farmer, a doctor, a merchant, his daughter and a young woman from the East. His arrival awakens the potential for compassion and kindness among the villagers of this small rural Irish community. Yet, over time, this hope turns sour, as James becomes the victim of local rivalries, jealousies and fear. Fabulous Beast exploded onto the Irish arts scene in 1997, led by one of Ireland's most talented, daring and charismatic contemporary artists, Michael Keegan-Dolan. His ability to fuse the visual immediacy of dance with the persuasive and powerful narrative of theatre has won Fabulous Beast huge critical acclaim. |
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| VENUE | Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry |
| TICKETS | £14 - £18 (concessions £2 off), under 26s £10 - call to book 024 7652 5424 |
| DETAILS | www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/events/id/3590 |
| EVENT | SALSA CLASSES |
| DATE | Monday 3 March 2008, 8pm |
| Every Monday. Classes at four levels over two hours by UKA Qualified Salsa Teachers Paul & Funda, and Steve (Salsa Amigos) followed by freestyle dancing from 10pm 'til midnight with DJ Graham G 8.00pm Beginners with Steve, Improvers1 with Paul, Improvers2 with Funda. 9.00pm Improvers1 with Steve, Improvers2 with Paul, Intermediate/Advanced with Funda. |
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| VENUE | Bar Escape, The Old Fire Station, Hales Street, Coventry |
| TICKETS | £4 one class, £6 two classes, free entrance for dancing |
| DETAILS | Graham 07732 948877 / www.salsadelic.com |
| EVENT | LoveBallet Dance Company : Ballet Lessons |
| DATE | Tuesday 4 March 2008 |
| Every Tuesday evening. Ballet lessons for 2½ years upwards, no experience neccessary. All lessons taught by a fully qualified teacher, exam classes optional. | |
| VENUE | The Grange Hall, Southam |
| TICKETS | £? |
| DETAILS | Lorraine 07711 010404 /
lorraine@loveballet.co.uk / www.loveballet.co.uk |
| EVENT | Skin |
| DATE | Tuesday 4 & Wednesday 5 March 2008 |
| Performed by Ace Dance and Music. Skin is a synergy of media and dance, drawing from African, Caribbean and Japanese dance styles. Using captivating physical expression to discover what makes us function as a human being, robust and agile dancers explore the invisible signals we give out and the force and flow of feelings running through our veins. From the outside we look different, but underneath aren’t we all the same? |
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| VENUE | Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry |
| TICKETS | £10 / £8.50 - call to book 024 7652 5424 |
| DETAILS | marketing@acedanceandmusic.com |
| EVENT | The Mad Hatters Swing Dance Club : MONTHLY DANCE |
| DATE | Saturday 8 March 2008 |
| Our style is East Coast Swing, also known as Jitterbug, and
is jiving to quick music. Every second Saturday of the month in Exhall. |
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| VENUE | Exhall Old School Community Centre, off School Lane, Exhall Coventry CV7 9GL |
| TICKETS | £? |
| DETAILS | dawnandalistair@fortfitz.com |
| EVENT | Debut |
| DATE | Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March 2008 |
| Presented by Dance Kraze. | |
| VENUE | Nuneaton Arts Centre, Pool Bank Street, Nuneaton, CV11 5DB |
| TICKETS | £3.50 / £3.00 - available from 024 7638 5920 |
| DETAILS | 024 7632 7359 / boxoffice@abbeytheatre.co.uk |
| EVENT | LA MUSE : FRENCH AND BRETON DANCE WORKSHOP |
| DATE | Thursday 20 March 2008, 8pm |
| La Muse is a monthly French and Breton dance workshop run
in Coventry by Mel Burden and Sue Ward. Dances from Brittany are usually danced in either a circle or a line that spirals around the room. These range from simple dances, with linked arms and simple footwork (for example, the Hanter Dro), through to more complicated dances with more complex arm and footwork (for example, Danse Keff). The music that accompanies the dances are usually played on the bombarde and biniou-koz (breton bagpipes) or can be sung in the style of kan ha diskhan. Dances from Central France are usually danced in couples and include the simple two and three time bouree through to the more complex mazurka. The music that accompanies the dances are usually played on the vielle a roue (hurdy gurdy), cornemuses (bagpipes) and accordeon diatonique. |
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| VENUE | Coventry & North Warwickshire Cricket Club, Binley Road, Coventry |
| TICKETS | £? |
| DETAILS | Sue and Mel 024 7643 1389 / info@lamuse.org.uk / www.lamuse.org.uk |
| EVENT | BOKA HALAT |
| DATE | Saturday 29 March 2008, 8pm |
| Boka Halat means 'Mutual Inspiration'. It will be a night of music and dancing featuring 5 band members from various cultural backgrounds, and the audience. The first part of the show is a concert - original music and songs, based on material from the band members' individual traditions (African, Asian and UK). The musicians include percussionists, violinist, saxophonist and concertina player. Then, after the interval it's time to push back the chairs and tables for a very special style barn dance, with Roger as 'Caller'. | |
| VENUE | Eathorpe Village Hall, Eathorpe, Leamington Spa, CV33 9DE |
| TICKETS | £8, £6 (concessions) or £6, £5 (concessions) if paid for by 23 March |
| DETAILS | Sue 01926 632575 / Pauline 01926 632242 / sue@eathorpe.demon.co.uk |
| EVENT | The Big Ballet |
| DATE | Tuesday 22 April 2008 |
| Russia’s alternative ballet company, The Big Ballet -
comprising 16 female dancers each weighing a strict minimum of
17 Stone and a combined average of 20 Stone - will be performing
at the Belgrade Theatre as part of a tour of 65 UK theatres. The Big Ballet hails from Perm, a beautiful city in Russia’s Ural Mountain range, also home to two of ballet’s pre-eminent geniuses, Peter I Tchaikovsky and Serge Diaghlev. Formed to challenge social standards in a world where slenderness and beauty seems obsessive, The Big Ballet dancers courageously and imposingly, prove that grace, elegance, charisma and nimbleness are not the sole preserve of the ‘thin’ and proudly present their voluptuous, yet surprisingly sinuous and flexible, figures. |
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| VENUE | Belgrade Theatre, Coventry |
| TICKETS | £? |
| DETAILS | Box Office 024 7655 3055 / www.thebigballet.co.uk |
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