Friday: Susanne Allen

Islington’s Pleasance Theatre tonight took host to Cloud Dance Festival’s 12th Festival to date, Firefly. The lights went down for the first time this evening for the beginning of a three-night, jam-packed festival of diverse, contemporary dance. A combination of young and emerging newcomers, and experienced, returning choreographers have come together for another Cloud Dance Festival that prides itself on embracing and staging talented dancers and choreographers from, not only our capital but from all over the country.

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Friday: Lesley Perez

Season after season, one of the greatest delights Cloud Dance Festival offers up is the pleasure of the unexpected. Although the London-based dance festival draws a few big names every year that add sparkle to its lineup (with the Royal Ballet’s Kristen McNally and SYTYCD’s Tommy Franzén grabbing many of the headlines this year), important exposure for the upstarts and relative unknowns continues to be CDF’s primary focus. And it is when these likely unfamiliar names and faces sweep you up in their passion, creativity and skill that the real magic occurs. Overall, the opening night of Firefly was an excellent example of that magic, which continues to draw dance lovers year after year.

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Sunday: Laura Dodge

There was a palpable buzz of excitement at Sunday evening’s performance. The final night of Cloud Dance Festival, this unfunded choreographic platform is clearly of huge value not only to its participants but also to its enthusiastic audience.

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Saturday: Laura Dodge

Taking place this year at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington, Cloud Dance Festival offers a platform for contemporary and ballet choreographers to showcase their work.

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