The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Global platform for festival dance display
Live screening of event on YouTube
A performance by Perth Youth Dance Company will be broadcast live across the world as part of Perth Dance Festival 2017.
The dance performed by the group of 12-to-18-year-olds will be streamed globally via YouTube from Perth Concert Hall on Saturday at 1pm.
The live broadcast is part of Perth Dance Festival which also features dance film screenings, performances and The Great Big Dance Show with dance schools from across Perth and Kinross.
Peter Royston, dance development officer at Horsecross Arts, the creative organisation behind Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre, said: “Perth Youth Dance Company is our senior contemporary group of talented dancers.
“Their new dance choreographed by Lucy Wilson based on a horror theme will receive its world premiere in a live broadcast. The idea of making this work accessible to the world live online is very exciting.”
The festival started last night with a free drop-in performance of House Arrest by Zoe Irvine and Pernille Spence in Perth Concert Hall’s Norie-Miller Studio.
Screenings of shortlisted dance films in three categories of the Perth Screen Dance Awards will be shown today and tomorrow, from 6pm to 8pm in the Norie-Miller Studio.
Dance schools from across Perth and Kinross will be joined by guest groups including The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance Youth Company, Lothian Youth Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre and professional dance company Kast for The Great Big Dance Show celebration of dance in Perth Concert Hall on Sunday at 7.30pm.
Also featured in this performance will be Julie Young Studio, JGN Dance Attic, Inspire Dance Studio, Dance Bank, Oakbank Primary School, Pitlochry Youth Dance Company, Perth Youth Dance Company and Let’s Dance.
For tickets and information for Perth Dance Festival contact Horsecross Arts Box Office on 01738 621031 or visit www. horsecross.co.uk.
The idea of making this work accessible to the world live online is very exciting. PETER ROYSTON DANCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER