Ludus Dance helps break a dance world record!
Big Dance 2006 with the Arts Council and the BBC
On Saturday 22nd July 2006, Ludus Dance joined up with BBC Radio Lancashire and the Arts Council at the Blackpool Tower to take part in the world's biggest ever dance class
Across the whole of England, at exactly the same time thousands of people performed the same dance at exactly the same time!
Ludus Dance - Lancashire's Dance Captain!
It was a great honour for Ludus Dance to be selected as Lancashire's Dance Captain for the Big Dance Class. Participants at the Blackpool Tower were taught the Big Dance Class routine by Ludus Dance Artist, Hannah Robertshaw. The world recording breaking dance class took place at 12.30pm.
Pictures
Pictures from the Big Dance Class event at Blackpool tower are available through the BBC Lancashire web-site. Plus, if you took part you can leave your messages at:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/
TV Coverage
Unfortunately, our Blackpool dance class was not featured on the Saturday evening programme on BBC 1. However, there was a short news clip from BBC North West Tonight. You can watch the news clip below:
BBC NorthWest Tonight Big Dance Clip
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Radio Coverage
As ever, BBC Radio Lancashire, did a 'grand job' of covering the live record breaking dance event. There are two mp3 clips below, which are taken from the live radio broadcast.
BBC Radio Presenter: Sally Naden explains all!
1. The start of the Record Breaking Attempt. [4.06mins - 3.8Mb]
2. The end of the Record Breaking Attempt. [6.19mins - 5.8Mb]
What was Big Dance?
On Saturday, 22 July 2006, a special BBC programme will attempt to break world records in dance, take a look at Big Dance events across England and include live coverage of a mass dance spectacular in Trafalgar Square, London with Bruce Forsyth and Zoe Ball.
Big Dance was a week-long, England-wide celebration of dance. Everyone was invited to take part in a huge range of fun and unusual dance events taking place throughout the country.
Further Information
- Visit the official Big Dance Web Site at www.bigdance.org.uk
- Pictures from the Big Dance Classes in Lancashire are available at:- www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire
