Dalston Dancing Nations
Saturday 9 July 2pm till late
Produced by the Barbican in collaboration with HCD and The Vortex
Part of CREATE11
The Barbican's theatre and music teams return to Dalston's hippest square with a day of music, dance workshops and performances for all ages and abilities...
Dance comes from Tropical Isles, Strictly Dumb Dancing, Green Candle's Vintage@Northwood, Alevi Centre's Turkish folk dance and Boy Blue.
Boy Blue, Dalston Dancing Nations 2010
The day's music will be courtesy of Orquestra Contemporanea Da Olinda, Yaaba Funk. Bass Clef & The Hackney Memorial Free Jazz Marching Band and New York's Gutbucket.
Yaaba Funk
This is the third year that the Barbican brings dance to Gillett Square - last year was a huge success, getting hundreds of people on the dance floor. See
The members of Gillett Squared:
Hackney Co-Operative Developments
New Vortex Jazz Club
East London Design Show
