This festival was made for dancers

If you just can’t control your feet, the boing! festival being staged by Canterbury’s Gulbenkian theatre will be just up your street.

One of the highlights of the international family festival at the end of August will be the production (In)visible Dancing from Protein Dance.

Their feel-good spectacular is suitable for people of any age and combines a team of six professional dancers with members of the public and local dance troupes.

It brings together different styles of dance and works off landmarks and the audience’s reaction to this flash-mob-style performance.

It all starts on Sunday, August 21, and performances will run throughout the week in the run-up to the festival proper, culminating in an amazing finale in Canterbury High Street on Friday, August 26, from 3pm to 4pm.

Anyone can get involved in this inclusive experience, which by the end of the week will have gone from a small troupe of six dancers to a group of 18 dancers, along with local dance groups, musicians and, maybe, you.

Luca Silvestrini, Protein Dance artistic director, said: “I particularly enjoy the fact both dancing and theatre situations emerge over several days in front of their eyes, altering and transforming the course of the everyday.”

The show tries to put a smile on the face of passers-by and Protein Dance have been running similar performances since 2010 when they unveiled their first performance of this type in Birmingham.

Since then the show has gone international, with performances in Dublin and Rovereto in Italy.

boing! is at the Gulbenkian on the University of Kent campus over the August bank holiday weekend – Saturday, August 27, and Sunday, August 28

Tickets to performances can be bought by contacting the Gulbenkian theatre box office on 01227 769075. For information, visit boingfestival.com

(In)visible by Protein Dance will be perfomed during the week leading up to the boing! festival