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Collide Festival celebrates East London’s booming urban dance scene

Friday 26 April 2013

Collide Festival 2013

On Friday 10 May, University of East London’s ‘Dance: Urban Practice’ degree students will present the Collide Festival: Where Dance Meets Performance, at Stratford Circus.

The Collide Festival is UEL’s annual student-run dance festival designed to celebrate and showcase East London’s burgeoning urban dance scene.

Now in its second year, the 2013 festival hopes to build on the sell-out success of last year, promising to be packed with high energy performances from UEL students including street art, dance battles, dance on screen, symposiums and special guest acts including Theo 'Godson' Olayade (Sky 1's Got To Dance finalist) and Fred 'Realness' Folks (UK Funk Styles specialist).

Artistic Director of Neon Dance and ‘Dance Urban: Practice’ lecturer, Adrienne Hart, said: “The students have been busy programming, marketing and fundraising for this year’s festival, which looks set to be better than ever. It's been fantastic to watch the students build their very own festival from scratch, and get a taste of what it's like to present a large scale event in a professional live performance venue.” 

Collide will run from 12:30pm until 10:00pm on Friday, 10 May. Tickets will be available for purchase on the door or can be pre-booked via the official Collide Festival website, here   

Created in 2007, the Dance: Urban Practice degree is part of The Institute for Performing Arts Development (IPAD) at the University of East London (UEL). IPAD has been established as a national centre for excellence with groundbreaking undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in music, theatre, dance and community arts.

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