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2022: Highlights

Josie d’Arby and Karim Zeroual present highlights from Dance Passion 2022, a UK-wide celebration of dance in all its forms, from ballet and contemporary to ballroom. \n\nFilmed at five locations across the UK, Dance Passion 2022 features a diversity of performances from established companies and emerging talents at the forefront of the British dance scene together with specially commissioned short dance films. \n\nHighlights include:\n\nAn extract from Birmingham Royal Ballet’s brand new production Don Quixote, filmed at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry.\n\nThree innovative films that challenge audiences’ perceptions of how dance is captured.\n\nA performance inspired by boxing legend Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight world champion, recorded at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds.\n\nSimple Cypher’s exciting fusion of hip-hop and circus acrobatics, filmed at Theatre Royal Plymouth’s TR2 centre.\n\nCardiff-based National Dance Company Wales performing Ludo.\n\nBallet Black’s stunning Washa from Sadler’s Wells in London.\n\nDance Passion is a collaboration between BBC Arts and One Dance UK, and supported by Arts Council England.

Source: BBC 4