Dance at Ikon Eastside – breaking down some barriers this spring | International Dance Festival Birmingham – Here I am blogging somewhere else – a guest post I did for International Dance Festival BIrmingham 2010 about dance in Ikon Eastside. For the post I interviewed Ikon Eastside Curator Helen Legg, who seems to be striving to break down some of those invisible barriers between artforms by drawing dance out of its comfort zone and into an non-traditional, art gallery space:
“For us it’s really clear there’s a really strong link between dance and a lot of what performance artists do, or you could think of it in terms of sculpture, so we’re not really very interested in those kinds of barriers that would mean that you would go to one thing and not the other. And I think a lot of our audiences are open-minded in terms of thinking about dance.”
I think I’ll need to keep my mind open tomorrow night when I go and see Xavier Le Roy’s Self Unifinished at Ikon Eastside, which will be transformed into a research lab for ‘a show combining science, art and contemporary dance’.
Self Unfinished is on tonight and tomorrow - Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May at 8pm. Tickets can be bought from Birmingham Hippodrome Box Office.
