The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance

Around May and April last year I was busy running around filming International Dance Festival Birmingham.

Festival organisers DanceXchange delivered an epic festival of dance across Birmingham and the West Midlands, featuring a number of innovative outdoor dance events that provoked and excited new audiences.

It was also the first time I’d really pushed shooting video on the Canon 5DMKII so was delighted when I heard a chunk of the footage was featured on BBC 4 documentary ‘The Most Incredible Thing About Contemporary Dance’.

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It’s a fantastic doc in which presenter and orchestral conductor Charles Hazelwood gives a lovely insight into the world of contemporary dance. With key interviews from director of DanceXchange David Massingham and a montage of my IDFB footage during the opening gambit and then again around 50mins into the piece.

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It was originally broadcast on BBC 4 last week but you can still go catch it on iPlayer until the end of this week! Inspiring, insightful, well worth a watch!