Performances
Unfortunately, internationale tanzmesse nrw - fair & festival will not take place from 26-30 August 2020 due to the measurements taken by the German federal and state governments to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nevertheless, we are very happy and proud to present the Tanzmesse 2020 artists. It is with great pleasure to provide you with a glimpse into more than 100 productions and works-in-progress. Feel free to browse through the Tanzmesse Programme online and delve into the productions through trailers, photos and text!
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Wednesday 26 August 2020
Lorin Sookool Studios ZA
The Blunt Blades of Bravado
Choreography: Lorin Sookool
The Blunt Blades of Bravado, inspired by a 2015 newspaper article entitled "Coloured Bravado", is a multimedia contemporary dance performance investigating aspects of sub-street culture formed in response ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
18:00 – 18:40 - Duration: 40min
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Booth:
Dance South Africa
Panaibra Gabriel Canda MZ
The man who did not see the whale pass by
Choreography: Panaibra Gabriel Canda
Inspired by the authors Janusz Korczak and Fernando Pessoa, Panaibra Gabriel Canda deals with the different worlds and perceptions of adults and children and with lost utopias. If we imagine parallel ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
19:30 – 20:20 - Duration: 50min
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Booth:
PLAN B - Creative Agency for Performing Arts
Out Innerspace Dance Theatre CA
Bygones
Choreography: David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen
In Bygones, the choreographers David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen create a world in between light and shadow, humans and objects – a kind of limbo that oscillates between creation and destruction, ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Belsher Arts Management
CCN - Ballet de Lorraine FR
Come out
Choreography: Petter Jacobsson
The first collaboration of choreographer Olivier Dubois with Ballet de Lorraine has produced a minimalist masterpiece. Dubois – the “enfant terrible of contemporary dance” – has teamed up with all the ...
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CENTRAL
Big Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Région Grand Est
Virpi Pahkinen Dance Company SE
Deep Time
Choreography: Virpi Pahkinen
With her latest creation DEEP TIME, Virpi Pahkinen and her ensemble go on a dive into the infinite depths of time. The hourglass measures seven seconds and centuries. DEEP TIME moves in the archaeology ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Swedish Dance
Polski Teatr Tańca / Polish Dance Theatre PL
45
Choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz
With this work, Polish Dance Theatre celebrates its 45th anniversary, reflecting upon the past in the light of the present. It is a journey through time with the oldest dance theatre company in Poland. ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
21:00 – 22:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Polski Teatr Tańca / Polish Dance Theatre
Adele Goh SG
Disappearing Act
Choreography: Adele Goh
The emerging Singaporean choreographer and dancer created an abstract work with Disappering Act, focusing on the presence of her own body on stage: My body as a spatial point of reference, a point of ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
26 August 2020
21:00 – 21:45 - Duration: 45min
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Booth:
National Arts Council (Singapore)
Amelia Chong SG
NAMUH
Choreography: Amelia Chong
In her solo, Amelia Chong explores the perceived dichotomy of the human body. She intends to dispel the idea of singularity in meaning and perception. Thus, NAMUH celebrates the endless possibilities ...
Thursday 27 August 2020
TWObigsteps Collective CA
Livespace
Choreography: Marissa Wong
How does technology affect our perception? Livespace is an immersive movement installation that questions the technological lens and its influence on how we receive information. The performance engages ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
15:30 – 16:15 - Duration: 45min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
Compagnie Chute Libre FR
Anarchy - The harmony of disorder
Choreography: Pierre Bolo & Annabelle Loiseau
Cie Chute Libre is trying to find a balance between disorder and harmony, individuality and social order: How do we coexist without dominating while tolerating other types of creature/ people? The group ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
27 August 2020
16:00 – 17:55 - Duration: 115min
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Booth:
Chute Libre Hip Hop dance company
Hungry Sharks AT
Hidden in plain sight
Choreography: Valentin Alfery
The most recent work of the dance company Hungry Sharks is a choreographed jigsaw puzzle with components of Urban Dance. The audience is invited to join an adventure trip that is looking for mutual interrelationships. ...
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Booth:
Hungry Sharks
Ben J. Riepe DE
MEDO/ANGST
Choreography: Ben J. Riepe
Fear – "Medo" in Portuguese – is a predominant feeling in Brazil nowadays and reflects a global phenomenon. It concerns the inhabitants of the favelas, artists, climate and LGTBQ activists alike – they ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
iDAS NRW / tanzhaus nrw
ELECTRICMOOSE/brian solomon CA
THUNDERBIRD'S TRANSFORMATION
Choreography: brian solomon
a man is awakened from his sedentary ways and days. on his way home from work at the telemarketing office, he is half-transformed into a thunderbird. between space and time, earth and sky, he travels ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
Compagnie Marie Chouinard CA
RADICAL VITALITY
Choreography: Marie Chouinard
Marie Chouinard delved into the company's repertoire to compose a new work consisting of solos and duets. She shed new light on these small choreographic forms and recreated them: new costumes or sound ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
27 August 2020
19:00 – 20:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
Cristina Moura BR
ÄGÔ
Choreography: Cristina Moura
ÄGÔ combines languages and symbols, thinkers and creators. The result is a body language and a scenic representation that communicates ambiguities and possibilities of a dancing body. At the same time, ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
PLAN B - Creative Agency for Performing Arts
Alexander Whitley Dance Company GB
Overflow
Choreography: Alexander Whitley
Digital technology, now a seemingly indispensable part of modern life, is radically transforming how we experience and act in the world. Overflow considers how our desires, fantasies and vulnerabilities ...
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CENTRAL
Big Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Dance from England
YIBU Dance Company DE
1:6 | 5:1
Choreography: Chun Zhang & Kai Strathmann
With this new production YIBU Dance starts a new cycle of work, drawing its inspiration from the 64 hexagrams of the 7000 year old book "I Ching". These hexagrams or figures are abstract notations of ...
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27 August 2020
19:30 – 20:20 - Duration: 50min
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Booth:
Tanzland NRW
Modern Table KR
SOKDO (Velocity)
Choreography: JAEDUK KIM
How do we experience velocity? The eight dancers and three musicians of the company Modern Table create different paces and dynamics with their bodies, voices and instruments. Their movements become ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
21:15 – 22:15 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Dance of Korea
Erika Mitsuhashi & Francesca Frewer CA
DUST
Choreography: Erika Mitsuhashi & Francesca Frewer
A thought-provoking multidisciplinary performance piece which incorporates contemporary dance, live sound, new media, and striking designs to investigate themes of volatility, change, decay, and the ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
21:15 – 22:15 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
Figure of 8 Dance Collective ZA
WAG | Waiting
Choreography: The cast under the direction of Grant van Ster & Shaun Oelf
Waiting is an integral part of our lives. We experience different kinds of waiting every day. How long do we wait? What are we waiting for? How do we experience and deal with waiting? WAG | WAITING will ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
27 August 2020
21:15 – 22:10 - Duration: 55min
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Booth:
Dance South Africa
Friday 28 August 2020
MIHR Theatre AM
The Song of a Refugee
Choreography: Tsolak MLKE-Galstyan
For this creation MIHR Theatre and Tiezerk Band dive into the musical genre “Song of a Refugee”. This musical genre among Armenian national songs is not only about geographical migration but also about ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
28 August 2020
16:00 – 18:00 - Duration: 120min
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Booth:
World Wide Artists
L'Explose Danza CO
TIRESIAS o la razón de ser
Choreography: Tino Fernández
In this solo the performer undergoes a bodily metamorphosis, morphing between human and animal, changing gender, oscillating between masculinity and femininity, power and fragility. For about 50 minutes ...
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Booth:
Danza Colombia
Asbl SB Company LU
What does not belong to us
Choreography: Sarah Baltzinger
By combining sometimes contradictory energies, What does not belong to us explores the notion of inheritance. Social, family, cultural or political inheritance, What does not belong to us is an element ...
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Booth:
Dance From Luxembourg
TRIBE by Shamel Pitts US
BLACK HOLE: Trilogy And Triathlon
Choreography: Shamel Pitts
BLACK HOLE is a kaleidoscopic performance art experience using movement, light and visual art. Although the title derives from the cosmic phenomenon of a Black Hole, it is not a work on explaining the ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
American Dance Abroad
Baobab JP
UMU
Choreography: Wataru Kitao
Originally created as a group work for 24 female dancers, choreographer Wataru Kitao has adapted his work UMU to a solo. In this work he unites elements of Hip-Hop as well as classical Butoh in order ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
World Wide Artists
TORONTO INUIT ASSOCIATION CA
NO WOMAN'S LAND
Choreography: Naulaq LeDrew and Avatâra Ayuso
Two women, two generations, two cultures, two lands – an encounter between Spanish-born, UK-based choreographer Avatâra Ayuso and the Inuk elder craft artist Naulaq LeDrew, from Nunavut. Together they ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
19:30 – 20:25 - Duration: 55min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
Yabin Studio CN
World
Choreography: Yabin Wang
What is it like to live a dancer’s life? What does it mean for a dancer to be on stage? For many dancers dance is also a medium of communication. Dancers create movements out of their inner self. They ...
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CENTRAL
Big Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
China Association of Performing Arts
Shay Kuebler Radical System Art CA
Epilogos
Choreography: Shay Kuebler
In Aristoteles’ "The Art of Rhethoric", epilogos is defined as the point in a speech where a speaker attempts to evoke an emotional response in the audience. The performance Epilogos is built around ...
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Teo Otto Theater
Saal
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 31-33
42853 Remscheid -
28 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Belsher Arts Management
Alexandra Waierstall DE
ANNNA³. The Worlds of Infinite Shifts
Choreography: Alexandra Waierstall
Choreographer Alexandra Waierstall once again teams up with composer HAUSCHKA to create a minimalistic masterpiece: Fragile yet at the same time with astonishing strength, three female performers pass ...
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tanzhaus nrw
Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
21:15 – 22:15 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
iDAS NRW / tanzhaus nrw
Dumb Instrument Dance CA
The Odd Volume
Choreography: Ziyian Kwan
What does it mean to know that one will never arrive yet always yearn to belong? The Odd Volume is an autobiographical solo that sources Ziyian Kwan’s childhood memories from 1970's Vancouver to subvert ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
21:15 – 22:00 - Duration: 45min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
Casa Conveniente PT
Ensaio Para Uma Cartografia
Choreography: Mónica Calle
Ensaio para uma Cartografia is a choreography that is never complete. Inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s Seven Deadly Sins and Luís Mário Lopes’ A Boa Alma, choreographer Mónica Calle is trying to create an ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
28 August 2020
21:15 – 22:15 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
O Espaço do Tempo
Saturday 29 August 2020
Perypezye Urbane IT
IKI
Choreography: Daria Menichetti
IKI is the attempt to dive into the physical and spiritual dimension of death, it is the dance of two souls who give up their physical existence to gain access to another dimension, another state of ...
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Fabrik Heeder
Big Stage & Small Stage
Virchowstraße 130
47805 Krefeld -
29 August 2020
16:00 – 18:00 - Duration: 120min
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Booth:
Perypezye Urbane | DanceMe
Corpo Maquina NL
Ball
Choreography: Guilherme Miotto
In 2016 choreographer Guilherme Miotto met Nasser el Jackson and immediately fell for Nasser’s extraordinary personality and movement quality - he decided to create a full-length solo for this balling ...
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Booth:
Corpo Máquina
Daina Ashbee CA
Pour
Choreography: Daina Ashbee
Pour is a work that explores the vulnerability and strength of women, uncovering the layers of pain we absorb in our bodies through a society that does not support them. Like her previous works, Daina ...
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FFT Juta
Kasernenstraße 6
40213 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2020
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Canada Council for the Arts
t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e BE
20 October 1968, Mexico
Choreography: Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent
A documentary dance piece in which a historic sports tribute and a political allegory cross an intergenerational face-to-face about breathless movement. Starting point for this creation is the ‘documentary ...
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FFT Kammerspiele
Jahnstr. 3
40215 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2020
18:00 – 19:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
From Belgium with Love
Vertigo Dance Company IL
One, One & One
Choreography: Noa Wertheim
Oscillating between explosive energy and meditative unison, virtuous movement and abstract design, choreographer Noa Wertheim and the nine performers on stage depict the inner desire – and struggle – ...
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Forum Leverkusen
Am Büchelter Hof 9
51373 Leverkusen -
29 August 2020
19:00 – 20:00 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Vertigo Dance Company
Lululangs Arts Academy ZA
The Encounter
Choreography: Lulu Mlangeni
The Encounter explores subtleties that undermine the potential for a smooth flow of relationships between genders. In this duet the dancers are bent on trampling the tenuous line that stealthily continues ...
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Small Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2020
19:30 – 20:25 - Duration: 55min
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Booth:
Dance South Africa
B.DANCE TW
RAGE
Choreography: Po-Cheng TSAI
RAGE is inspired by the eponymous crime novel by the Japanese writer Yoshida Shuichi and the film directed by Lee Sang-il. Beyond an apparent serenity, this creation exposes the violence and anger of ...
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CENTRAL
Small Stage
Worringer Straße 140
40210 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2020
19:30 – 20:30 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
Dance in Taiwan
Paula Quintana ES
Las Alegrías (The Joys)
Choreography: Paula Quintana
Las Alegrías unfolds from the generating, transformative and revolutionary power of joy. A dancing dialogue between two bodies: the living and latent body of Paula Quintana and a magical and celestial ...
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Big Stage
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2020
21:15 – 22:15 - Duration: 60min
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Booth:
DANCE FROM SPAIN
Yossi Berg & Oded Graf Dance Theater IL
When Love Walked In
Choreography: Yossi Berg & Oded Graf
In When Love Walked In, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf explore the essence of what it means to love. How is love presented in culture? And how do we, individually, experience love? In a series of short stories, ...
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Studio 6
Erkrather Str. 30
40233 Düsseldorf -
29 August 2020
21:15 – 22:30 - Duration: 75min
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Booth:
Vertigo Dance Company