Cardiff Dance Festival


Cardiff Dance Festival 2017

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The second Cardiff Dance Festival ran from 8—19 November 2017.

We project managed the festival and produced Interruption, the collaborative project with Basement 21 that took place as part of the UK India Year of Culture 2017.

Festival performances took place at Chapter, the Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre, with Interruption's event day taking place at Cardiff Central Market, The Atrium and Cardiff Central Library.  


Performance events

Wrongheaded, Liz Roche Company (Ireland)
In This Moment, Laïla Diallo (UK)
Poggle, Barrowland Ballet (UK)
Black Out, Cie. Philippe Saire (Switzerland)
Countless Yellow Chairs, Laïla Diallo and Jules Maxwell (UK)
Roots, National Dance Company Wales (Wales)
Extremely Bad Dancing to Extremely French Music, Karl Jay-Lewin and Matteo Fargion (UK)
Not About Everything, Hiatus/Daniel Linehan (Belgium)
Interruption, Basement 21 and artists from Wales (India/Wales) 
Hardy Animal, Laura Dannequin (UK)
Ways of Being Together, Jo Fong (Wales)


Residencies

Basement 21 and artists from Wales (India/Wales)
maribé - sors de ce corps (Québec/Canada)
Clod Ensemble (UK) 


Festival partners

Chapter
Groundwork Pro 
Migrations 
National Dance Company Wales
University of South Wales 
Wales Millennium Centre


CDF17 was supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Wales Arts International, the British Council and the Québec Government Office in London.
 

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Images, top to bottom/left to rightBlack Out, Cie. Philippe Saire Interruption, Basement 21 and artists from Wales Countless Yellow Chairs, Laïla Diallo and Jules Maxwell Wrongheaded, Liz Roche Company Not About Everything, Hiatus/Daniel LinehanPhot…

Images, top to bottom/left to right

Black Out, Cie. Philippe Saire
Interruption, Basement 21 and artists from Wales
Countless Yellow Chairs, Laïla Diallo and Jules Maxwell
Wrongheaded, Liz Roche Company
Not About Everything, Hiatus/Daniel Linehan

Photographs by Philippe Weissbrodt, Ceri Jones, Jack Offord, Ewa Figaszewska and Jason Somma