One of Europe’s largest dance festivals, International Dance Festival Birmingham is back for 2014 with another huge celebration of dance. From ballet to breakdancing, contemporary to circus the programme is jam-packed and now on sale.
At the end of January festival staff, media, funders, sponsors, partners and friends of the festival joined co-Artistic Directors David Massingham and Stuart Griffiths to celebrate the launch of IDFB 2014. The full programme was announced and there were even two sneak preview performances of shows that will take place during the festival. The audience was able to look back at the highlights of the first three editions of IDFB, before the first viewing of the official IDFB 2014 trailer.
The fourth IDFB festival will present some of the finest dance from across the globe between 24 April and 25 May 2014, with world premieres, unique collaborations, community events, and world-class performances. There are more shows than ever for 2014 as a result of several new venue partners, meaning some of the biggest names in dance and many hotly tipped rising choreographic stars will be on offer.
There are lots of opportunities for audiences to get dancing too with the Paint the Town Red programme of social dance events, as well as free outdoor performances: look out for IDFB 2014 out-and-about in Birmingham city centre, popping up in unusual places and spaces with a number of free performances. Leading the proceedings will be Corey Baker Dance (led by IDFB International Artist in Residence Corey Baker), performing Headphones and A Haka Day Out, whilst Put Your Foot Down will take over Bullring’s Spiceal Street with a spectacular array of performances in a range of styles, giving audiences a real flavour of IDFB.