Results tagged “dance” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog

I am still a toddler deep inside. Here I am with a great and worthy event to bring to the world's attention, an opportunity I truly relish, and all I can think about is wasting time with a little ballerina who twirls madly every time I tease her with my right index finger.

Right, before someone reports me for something sinister I'll hasten to add it's all quite harmless - but great fun.

With the Birmingham International Dance Festival proving such a huge hit - and Fiona Ferguson kept us all hooked with her great blogs on this site - I thought there'd be a ready readership out there for more dance doings.

Right - just to clarify something: this is NOT a series of reviews. This is a blog. This is a festival-goers diary commenting on the IDFB experience. I am not here to be a dance critic.

Good.

Now that's out of the way I can talk about what I want to talk about; the amazing Akram Khan's bahok!

Hooray - I have finally found something to moan about.

I've always been a bit of a purist really, in the sense that I've always thought that great performance was just great performance - it stands alone in a vacuum of marvellousness and nothing can touch it. As I discovered at Tuesday night's IDFB En Sus 13 flamenco show at the Town Hall, this is not true. Great performance also needs to be in a great venue and in front of a great audience.