Barbican Weekend in Gillett Square

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Saturday 3 July, Sunday 4 July 12pm on
Dance Nations Dalston
Admission free
Produced by the Barbican
Part of CREATE10 and Big Dance

Dance Nations Dalston is a weekend of live music and inclusive dance workshops on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July in Gillett Square from 12-7pm.

The event has been organised by the Barbican, in partnership with Hackney Cooperative Developments and Hackney Council's Culture Team.

This is the second year that the Barbican has brought dance to Gillett Square - last year was a huge success, getting hundreds of people on the dance floor - this year looks like it will be even more popular, thanks to outreach dance workshops with local communities and an amazing line up of international musicians and dancers.

Highlights for budding dancers include workshops from: the Legendary Boy Blue Entertainment and dynamic b.supreme (both hip hop); champion same sex ballroom dancers The Sugar Dandies; the vibrant Bollywood Vibes; and Hackney's very own Tropical Isles, Dalston Tango, Graeae and Dakrobi. A hulahooping extravaganza will get everyone's hips wiggling, and a group of Hackney's Age Concern clients will lead a Flash Mob facilitated by the fantastic Cholmondeleys & The Featherstonehaughs.


B Supreme

Musical highlights include New York City’s Asphalt Orchestra, who will wind their way through the audience – a modern marching band like no other; London’s coolest experimental jazz band, Polar Bear; the eccentric 12 piece baritone saxophone ensemble, Tokyo-chutei-iki; London-based Congolese band Zong Zing All Stars; the London five-piece Benin City (BBC 6 Music’s Craig Charles’s ‘one to watch’) who weave together jazz, hip-hop, funk and a bit of spoken word; and Bristol’s Zun Zun Egui with their joyful sound, which captures shades of Fela Kuti’s grooves and krautrock’s rhythms.


Asphalt Orchestra

For your information, another Big Dance project to look out for is The Bunker Thing featuring Hackney's ever-popular Avant Garde hip hop dancers in an old WW2 bunker off Ashwin Street. Please see the attached flyer for further details about The Bunker Thing.

For further information please click here (links to Barbican web site)