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Dateline: 4th May, 2011
Big Dance Goes National in 2012 Big Dance, London’s Legacy Trust UK programme, delivered by the Mayor of London and Arts Council England, has announced plans for Big Dance 2012, taking place from 7th to 15th July 2012, as part of London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. Big Dance is the world’s biggest and most influential dance initiative. More than a major biennial dance festival, Big Dance is a campaign to get everyone taking part – wherever they are, whatever their age, experience or ability. Over two million people have taken part in Big Dance since it began, with events taking place in unusual locations including shopping centres, parks, bridges, sports centres, beaches, bandstands, bunkers, swimming pools, schools, in streets and public squares and travelling events on the Big Dance Bus as well as in performance spaces all over London. In 2012, the programme for Big Dance will expand to reach out beyond London to communities all over England through a network of leading national dance organisations co-ordinated by the Foundation for Community Dance. These hub leads include South East Dance, Dance South West/Pavilion Dance, Dance 4, Merseyside Dance Initiative, Yorkshire Dance, DanceEast and Dance City. Plans are underway for similar hub networks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Wayne McGregor, Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor|Random Dance and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, will set the vision and choreographic framework for 2012, and will work directly on the creation of a new dance piece for 2,000 dancers in Trafalgar Square to be premiered on Saturday 14th July 2012. Alongside members of his dance company and in partnership with dance groups, emerging and professional dancers and choreographers from a range of dance backgrounds across London, this will be a large scale collaborative and creative choreographic project. Working in collaboration with the British Council, Big Dance will reach out to schools all over the world in 2012. School children will be able to take part in a global record breaker to create the largest multi-location dance routine ever performed at 1pm on Friday 18th May 2012, to coincide with the arrival of the Olympic Torch in the UK, marking the start of the seven- week countdown to Big Dance Week. This project, which is part of the British Council’s schools programme, invites all schools to provide 20 minutes of dance activity every day in Big Dance week. In 2010 The Big Dance Schools Pledge encouraged over 40,000 children to get up and dance. Wayne McGregor said, "I am excited at the prospect of being part of Big Dance. A major part of my preoccupation over the last few years has been to see how I can find ways to inspire creativity among young dancers and choreographers. Trafalgar Square will be the ultimate dance stage for all of us work on. I hope we will turn Big Dance into not just a celebration but a real movement."
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