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Blue Room at LEAP Dance Festival

Blue Room at LEAP Dance Festival

For LEAP 2019, it was important for us to make our programme as accessible as possible, and we invited individuals ...
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Talent Development Across the Ages

Talent Development Across the Ages

Anyone can dance. No matter your age or ability, dance has the power to inspire. Talent Development is a huge ...
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When Visual Art Meets Dance... with Frances Disley

When Visual Art Meets Dance… with Frances Disley

Ahead of her double bill at Bluecoat for LEAP 2019, we caught up with visual artist Frances Disley to explore ...
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@lisiperry 's Equilibrium was an exciting, astounding and aesthetically gorgeous opening to our Fringe Festival this year. Did you see these giant yoga balls bouncing down the steps at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral? Lisi was commissioned by MDI as part of our ongoing commitment to Talent Development, as a North West Dance Artist
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Images: @jazaminsinclair
#fringe #festival #dance #contemporary #commission #experimental #publicart #performance #danceartist #commission #ytalent #talentdevelopment

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The wonderful @jen.halesmith WON the award for Inspirational Community Dance Practitioner at the @onedanceuk ceremony on Saturday, so we couldn't resist sharing these images of her most recent collaboration 🏆🏆🏆 Working with New Art Club and intergenerational dance artists from across Merseyside, Jen and the group performed Everything We’ve Ever Done And Everywhere We’ve Ever Been, a new commission for #LEAPFest2019

#dance #commission #contemporary #community #intergenerational #awardwinner #festival #fringe

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Blue Room member Diana shares her experiences of #LEAPFest2019 in our latest blog. Along with individuals from @daisyinclusiveuk Diana attended a special touch tour of @neondance PuzzleCreature @invisiblewindfactory and a family-friendly matinée @francesdisley Tripleflex @bluecoat Head over to our website to read the full story!

#dance #festival #nclusive #community #accessart #accessible #arts #culture #feedback #audience #participantion #contemporarydance

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Our very own Jennie Hale has just WON @onedanceuk Community Practitioner award! No one is wiping the smile off their face for DAYS. Huge congrats Jen and all the nominees and winners tonight

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Lifting our moon explorers into space for the final performance today under #MuseumoftheMoon 💫⭐️🌟✨⚡️
#moonlanding50 #moonlanding #astronaut #moon #dance #youth #community #perform

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Keeping ourselves warm with some games and stretching exercises between shows #museumofthemoon #moonlanding50 #community #youth #dance #scouts #show #performance

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Can you do the moonwalk?

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Resident astronaut @jamesbowling95 is channelling Neil Armstrong today in a replica of @astro_timpeake spacesuit generously loaned to us by @worldmuseum_ 🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔
Catch performances of One Small Step on the hour every hour at Birkenhead Town Hall, beneath @lukejerramartist Museum of the Moon!
#museumofthemoon #neilarmstrong #moonlanding50 #moonlanding #soace #spacewalk #soaceman #dance #performance #community

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Today we’re at Birkenhead Town Hall performing under @lukejerramartist Museum of the Moon. Our groups today are from Scouts, @merseysideyouthdancecompany and @nicdavis2 Adult Contemporary. Catch us on the hour from 1-5pm retelling the story of the 1969 moon landing
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We couldnt be prouder or feel more blessed to work with @jen.halesmith who has been nominated for an award by @onedanceuk The Inspirational Community Dance Practioner category is always strong competition, as how can you judge the impact dance artists are able to have on their students?
The awards take place tomorrow, and we wish Jen, and all the other nominees the best of luck. 📸 @jazaminsinclair Jen with a community group of intergenerational dancers performing a commission by New Art Club for #LEAPFest2019
#award #community #artist #danceartist #practitioner #nomination #nominated #dance

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Our Fringe Festival Managers Grace Bell and Michaela Munden have been selected for the Student Inspiration Award, at the inaugural LCR Culture & Creativity Awards 2019.
The girls worked with us as part of their second-year Management course @lipaliverpool and we couldn't have managed our team of volunteers or made our first ever fringe festival happen without them. The awards will take place at @leverartgallery on Thursday 28 November and weve got everything crossed for you
Picture: Grace enjoying @lucystarkeydances Spacewalk @liveveryplay with an audience of amazed and excited little ones. Camera-shy Michaela will be popping up in our highlights video very soon... #team #teameffort #inspiring #award #culture #student #course #festival #management

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The sellotape scuffle or the floor-laying fling? We’ve been a bit quiet since #LEAPFest2019 because we’ve been prepping STUDIO 2

MDI now has 2 studios available to book for classes, rehearsals and more. Email studio@mdi.org.uk for more information