Post by Howie on Sept 2, 2004 17:24:47 GMT -5
Tapping into black culture with 2004 Feet
Sep 2 2004
By Philip Key, Daily Post
MANY film and stage shows have included scores of tap dancers performing together.
But there has been nothing to match the mass dance planned for Liverpool's city centre in October.
It will take place in Clayton Square and feature 1002 dancers. It is being appropriately titled 2004 Feet.
The event is a collaboration between Black Screen International Film Festival and the Merseyside Dance Initiative.
Staged as part of Black History Month, the mass tap will also be celebrating the career of the late American dancer Gregory Hines.
Hines, a black dancer, choreographer and actor, is best known for his appearance in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Cotton Club.
He also co-starred alongside ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in the 1985 film White Nights - both would later appear in top-rated television series, Sex and the City and Will and Grace.
The tap dancing day - Sunday, October 10 - will also include the screening of Gregory Hines's film Tap at the FACT Centre in Wood Street.
But there will also be excerpts from other Hines films on the giant outdoor screen now placed in Clayton Square.
Karen Gallagher, director of the dance initiative, said it would be a great opportunity to honour Hines. "It is also a great opportunity to celebrate dancing with so many people of the city.
"It will be a fitting tribute as part of black history month and a wonderful event for Liverpool as it develops its programme for European Capital of Culture in 2008."
The event is helped by PIDGIN, the Producers Integrated Development Group, Initiative Network, a Liverpool based non-profit making organisation which provides support services to individuals and groups interested in promoting cultural diversity in the moving image media.
In 1999 Pidgin Production initiated the Black Screen Film and Video Festival, now very much a part of the Liverpool calendar.
Now the search goes on to find dancers to take part in the tapping epic which will start at 3pm.
Liverpool Black History Month will hold a number of events throughout October including appearances by Egyptian musician Femi Kuti and The Positive Force at the Philharmonic Hall on October 9 and African singer Youssou N'Dour at the same venue on October 18.
Source: Daily Post
Sep 2 2004
By Philip Key, Daily Post
MANY film and stage shows have included scores of tap dancers performing together.
But there has been nothing to match the mass dance planned for Liverpool's city centre in October.
It will take place in Clayton Square and feature 1002 dancers. It is being appropriately titled 2004 Feet.
The event is a collaboration between Black Screen International Film Festival and the Merseyside Dance Initiative.
Staged as part of Black History Month, the mass tap will also be celebrating the career of the late American dancer Gregory Hines.
Hines, a black dancer, choreographer and actor, is best known for his appearance in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Cotton Club.
He also co-starred alongside ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in the 1985 film White Nights - both would later appear in top-rated television series, Sex and the City and Will and Grace.
The tap dancing day - Sunday, October 10 - will also include the screening of Gregory Hines's film Tap at the FACT Centre in Wood Street.
But there will also be excerpts from other Hines films on the giant outdoor screen now placed in Clayton Square.
Karen Gallagher, director of the dance initiative, said it would be a great opportunity to honour Hines. "It is also a great opportunity to celebrate dancing with so many people of the city.
"It will be a fitting tribute as part of black history month and a wonderful event for Liverpool as it develops its programme for European Capital of Culture in 2008."
The event is helped by PIDGIN, the Producers Integrated Development Group, Initiative Network, a Liverpool based non-profit making organisation which provides support services to individuals and groups interested in promoting cultural diversity in the moving image media.
In 1999 Pidgin Production initiated the Black Screen Film and Video Festival, now very much a part of the Liverpool calendar.
Now the search goes on to find dancers to take part in the tapping epic which will start at 3pm.
Liverpool Black History Month will hold a number of events throughout October including appearances by Egyptian musician Femi Kuti and The Positive Force at the Philharmonic Hall on October 9 and African singer Youssou N'Dour at the same venue on October 18.
Source: Daily Post