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Dateline: 19th November, 2009
Global Dance Contest Winner Sadler's Wells has announced that 26 year old Taiwanese choreographer Shu-Yi Chou has beaten competitors from 34 different countries across the world to win the theatre's first ever online Global Dance Contest. Voted for by members of the public since September, from a final shortlist of ten entries, Shu-Yi's piece titled [1875] Ravel and Bolero is an original contemporary dance work for twelve dancers set to Ravel's famous music and dedicated to the fleeting nature of time. Launched in March this year, Sadler's Wells set out to discover new dance talent from across the globe with its first ever online Global Dance Contest. Open to anyone aged 18 and over, in six months 170 applicants from 34 different countries submitted their own original dance clips via YouTube onto the competition website at www.globaldancecontest.com for the chance to win a cash prize and perform live on the main stage as part of Sadler's Wells Sampled, the theatre's yearly dance taster weekend, showcasing the best in international dance. The initial 170 entries ranged from performances in a living room, and on a beach, to a back garden, and on a convertible VW Beetle as well as in studios, and spanned every conceivable dance style, from flamenco to streetdance, contemporary to tango. As the winner of Sadler's Wells' inaugural contest, Shu-Yi and his company receive a cash prize of £2000 and the chance to perform their piece as part of Sadler's Wells Sampled in January 2010. The theatre will cover travel and accommodation costs for the group to come to London for the performances and will provide technical and artistic support for the piece to be adapted to the world class stage. Shu-Yi Chou's [1875] Ravel and Bolero was one of a shortlist of ten videos selected by a prestigious panel of judges who included choreographer Arlene Phillips, UK broadcaster and journalist Miranda Sawyer and Artistic Director and CEO of Sadler's Wells Alistair Spalding. The shortlisted pieces were assessed in terms of their creativity and originality, performing skill and entertainment value. Put forward for public vote via the competition website from 1 September to 13 November 2009, the shortlist represented a mix of dance works from Korea, USA, South Africa, Israel, Taiwan, UK and Australia, and included a street-dance quartet by Northern Irish group Bad Taste Cru, from the US a solo entitled The Clean State by choreographer Julian Barnett whose dance history includes working alongside Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal, and the work of Liberation Dance Theatre, a collective who see dance as a way to achieve social change. The contest runs annually for the next four years. At the end of four years in 2012, the collective winners of the annual competition will be invited to perform their work in London during the Olympic year.
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![A scene from [1875] Ravel and Bolero](../images/globaldance09.jpg)