If you are a dance-goer, you don’t want to miss the event : dancers from 2 Belgian and 9 foreign companies (the Kirov, the Royal Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet…), 14 choreographers… in total no less than 28 soloists and principals, will assemble on January 23 for a unique performance in Belgium.
Organised jointly by the Aids Solidarity Fund and The Loft Dance Studio, Dance for Life is an annual Belgian dance gala. Besides offering a performance of the highest artistic standards, the aim is a fund raising Gala with all funds raised going towards the Aids Solidarity Fund.
Cirque Royal, 81 rue de l’Enseignement, 1000 Brussels
January 23, 3pm
www.danceforlife.be
Buy your ticket on line
The dancers :
- Kirov Ballet : Daria Pavlenko & Andrei Merkuriev
- Het Nationale Ballet : Yumiko Takeshima & Raphael Coumes-Marquet
- Les Ballets C de la B : Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet
- Paris Opera Ballet : Marie-Agnès Gillot & Hervé Moreau
- Paris Opera Ballet : Manuel Legris & Aurélie Dupont
- Stuttgart Ballet : Bridget Breiner & Douglas Lee
- Bavarian State Ballet : Lisa-Marie Cullum & Roman Lazik
- Hamburg Ballet : Juri & Otto Bubenicek
- The Royal Ballet : Mara Galeazzi & Viacheslav Samudurov
- Rosas : Nordine Benchorf & Anne Mousselet
- International Guest Artists - Limbs Theorum (William Forsythe)
Noah Gelber
- International Guest Artists : Bart de Block & Momchil Mladenov
- International Guest Artists : Tilman O'Donnell & Shintaru O-UE
- International Guest Artists : Ilja Louwen & Leo Mujec
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DANCE FOR LIFE
Evénement incontournable pour les amoureux de la danse : le 23 janvier 2005, les plus célèbres étoiles du monde de la danse seront réunies pour un gala unique en Belgique !
Au total pas moins de 11 compagnies (Kirov Ballet, Opéra National de Paris, Royal Ballet, …), 28 danseurs et 14 chorégraphes seront de la fête pour une représentation unique dont les bénéfices sont intégralement destinés au Fonds de Solidarité SIDA.
Cirque Royal, 81 rue de l’Enseignement à 1000 Bruxelles
23 janvier à 15 heures
www.danceforlife.be
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When we lived in Brussels (for 13 years) we attended the
very FIRST of these Galas for obtaining funds for AIDS.
And those that followed while we resided in the city.
One of the Great losses to the Ballet world was the
death of George Lefebre to AIDS.
His annual Spring Festival ; Ballet de Wallonia
was an event not to be missed.
For years we have been attempting to obtain a
VCR/DVD recording of his Ballet "Frankenstein",
which one of most emotionally moving ballets
we have ever seen. We have the music but not
the actual visual performance. Does anyone
reading this msg have a source for obtaining
a copy. Over the years the BRT broadcast many
of his ballets, which we recorded, but when "Frankenstein" was
shown, we were out of Brussels, an missed recording
it.
We hope this Gala is as successful as those of
past years.
We have lost three good friends to this terrible
virus.
Posted by: James a newman | Jan 24, 2005 at 09:10 PM
When we lived in Brussels (for 13 years) we attended the
very FIRST of these Galas for obtaining funds for AIDS.
And those that followed while we resided in the city.
One of the Great losses to the Ballet world was the
death of George Lefebre to AIDS.
His annual Spring Festival ; Ballet de Wallonia
was an event not to be missed.
For years we have been attempting to obtain a
VCR/DVD recording of his Ballet "Frankenstein",
which one of most emotionally moving ballets
we have ever seen. We have the music but not
the actual visual performance. Does anyone
reading this msg have a source for obtaining
a copy. Over the years the BRT broadcast many
of his ballets, which we recorded, but when "Frankenstein" was
shown, we were out of Brussels, an missed recording
it.
We hope this Gala is as successful as those of
past years.
We have lost three good friends to this terrible
virus.
Posted by: James a newman | Jan 24, 2005 at 09:11 PM
Hello James,
BRT has now become VRT. Did you try to contact them to check if you could buy a VCR or DVD recording from them?
Their web site is www.vrt.be. They have an English page.
or you can check the details below.
Good luck and let us known if you succeed in getting your hands on that recording.
* EBU contact of VRT television department :
Mr. Aimé Van Hecke
Contact :
VRT
Room 7 L 33
1043 Brussels
Belgium
tel. : + 32 2 741 35 12
e-mail : aime.vanhecke@vrt.be
Posted by: Rita Arendt | Jan 25, 2005 at 07:54 PM