What's dance got to do with it?
Some of you might be traveling in Belgium, planning a week-end in Bruges or even living there.
When your belly is full and your feet tired after walking around all day, an evening of dance will warm your soul.
For its 4th Edition, December Dance 10 gives you 21 reasons in 10 days to catch a show.
Program outline:
"The fourth edition of December Dance, a collaboration between Concertgebouw and Cultuurcentrum Brugge, links up with Bruges Central, the cultural city festival. Besides works by the two anchor figures, the German choreographer Sasha Waltz and the French-Hungarian choreographer Josef Nadj, the festival is presenting a dance programme featuring top performers from Central Europe."
The December 10 program included 'My dearest, my fairest' with Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola & Joanna Dudley (pictured below). The body language tells me 'tango' influence.
Synopsis of this fairytale:
"Talking in sign language, singing and whistling, they sum up the history of romantic music in a nutshell: from Purcell’s Chaconnes to Fifties’ love songs, from karaoke hits to famous arias from Italian operas to sauce recipes. They sit either side of a long table and play with a toy car, a yellow rabbit and a red bear, and play on their favourite instruments – a toy piano, a kazoo, a harmonium, music boxes, an accordion, cowbells and a glockenspiel."
Besides dance, Bruges Central offers theater, music, films, literature. This months long City Festival opened its doors on September 17 and runs until January, 30, 2011.
Will this nudge you to visit the 'Venice of the North'?
(* photo of Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola & Joanna Dudley from December Dance 10 program pages)