Boys Dancing Project funding success for 2013
Shropshire Council’s community arts and festivals team has been part of a successful application by the West Midlands Boys Dance Alliance, in securing funding from the Arts Council West Midlands.
The funding goes towards the fourth year of the Boys Dancing Project, which develops and celebrates dance for boys and young men, providing them with the challenge, exhilaration, discipline and fun of making and sharing dance.
Young men and boys from across Shropshire will be performing together as part of the project at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm on Saturday 6 July 2013.
‘Manitou’, a site-specific promenade dance event, exploring the concept of avoidance, has been choreographed by professional dance artists in partnership with the participating boys.
During the evening the audience will have the opportunity to move around the traditional 19th century farm and watch the action happen among them. The event will culminate in a finale performance, showcasing the talent of male dancers from youth dance companies based in Birmingham, Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin.
Tickets are being sold from the Theatre Severn Box Office, tel 01743 281281, Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY3 8FT.
