News: Luca Silvestrini on why he makes dance.

Friday 15 May 2015 by Clare Evans

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Luca Silvestrini talks to the Guardian about how making work with non-dancers who and are dealing with difficult, sometimes life-threatening issues has inspired and empowered him.

“For years now I’ve been making dance work that has less public visibility, but focuses on those who can be invisible in our society… This work has taught me that being creative with your body and performing your own work in front of an audience is highly transformative. It encourages positive thinking and demonstrates that anyone has the potential to achieve. It’s true to say that creative and artistic activities in general can be life affirming, but I believe dance does something more: it deeply brings you in touch with the self, uniting the physical, the intellectual and the emotional.”

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Closure of Londondance.com

After 18 years of sharing information and promoting dialogue on what is happening in dance across the capital, Londondance.com is closing.

The decision to close the website was announced in summer 2019 and no new content has been published since then.

In response to an ongoing dialogue with the dance community, Sadler’s Wells is finalising arrangements for material hosted on the site to be archived, so that it may be publicly preserved as a resource. Until a permanent archive is created, Londondance.com remains online; it will not close on 5 February 2020 at 23:59 GMT as previously stated.

More information here. Thank you for having been a part of Londondance.com.

News: Luca Silvestrini on why he makes dance.

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