Big Dance

The week-long national dance festival returns this July with a series of events happening in the final weekend and lots of chances to get involved in the lead up. It's basically an initiative to get us all dancing, watching dance and enjoying dance as much as possible. The London centres are East London Dance, Sadler's Wells, Siobhan Davies Dance, Greenwich Dance and ENB. Each are doing different things, so watch out if you're local to those centres, but the final weekend - the 12th and 13th July culminates in some great-looking events, including 'Beats for Peace' in Trafalgar Square curated by Rafael Bonachela, where over 2000 London-based dance volunteers will be involved in a live link up with Glasgow and Syndey and ‘Arts Party’ a kind of street festival with dance organised by Wayne McGregor and 'The River' a promenade performance performed with 100 dancers along the Thames. The full line up is at www.bigdance.org.uk