What’s on during Open Weekend
20 Jul 2011
This year’s London 2012 Open Weekend is this weekend 22-24 July 2011, marking the countdown to one year to go to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Dancing for the Games has several events over the weekend including Dancefest’s 12 Moves, DanceXchange’s Breathe the Beat, Dudley Performing Arts’ Making Links and Central Youth Theatre’s Everybody Dance Now, as well as Rosie Kay’s The Great Train Dance, and Birmingham Hippodrome and No Fit State circus’ Circus in the City.
Here are a selection of the events happening over the Open Weekend:
In Worcestershire, Rosie Kay Dance Company brings the Severn Valley Railway to life with The Great Train Dance, a large-scale dance event performed on the train and inspired by a Hitchcock thriller.
Saturday 23 July, performances begin 11.15am and 3.15pm.
Severn Valley Railway, Kidderminster
£9 – £15
A colourful array of circus skill and talent for you to participate in and enjoy. Expect flag flying, drum banging, hand balancing, picnicking, hula hooping and trapeze!
Friday 22, Saturday 23, Sunday 24 July,
Chamberlain Square, Birmingham,
Free
Passers by are invited to learn a new hip hop dance from French sensation Salah.
Saturday 23 July,
11.30, 14.50, 16.10 at Victoria Square, Birmingham
13.00 at Millenium Place, Coventry
Free
Jamaica Live!, a pop-up festival celebrating the Jamaica team’s visit to the city in 2012. Expect good times and good food with special guests Levi Roots, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham gospel sensation Monique and many more.
Saturday 23 July, 12-6pm
Victoria Square, Birmingham
Free
Making Links
Black Country dancers and local residents join forces to save this famous Heritage site. Come to Mushroom Green where you will be immersed in a unique site-specific performance where fantasy begins and history unfolds before your very eyes.
Saturday 23 July, 4.30pm, 7.00pm, 8.30pm, 9.45pm
Quarry Rd, Netherton, Dudley, West Midlands, DY2 OEF
Tickets are no longer available, but there will be a live stream of the event on dancingforthegames.co.uk on Saturday from 5pm
Central Youth Theatre brings some Glamour and Romance to Wolverhampton in special previews of the Everybody Dance Now Festival.
May I Have This Dance? - Saturday 23 July, 2pm
Glamour & Romance - Sunday 24 July, 2pm
Three Steps to Heaven - Sunday 24 July, 5pm
Wolverhampton Low-Level Railway Station, Sun Street, Wolverhampton, WV10 0DG
£6 each
Look out for 100 dancers in various locations through Worcestershire. You will see creatures coming alive by people dancing and starting a story that will continue to unfold up to March 2012.
Saturday 23 July,
11am – Worcester, 1pm – Droitwich, 6pm – Bewdley
Free
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