McGregor’s Olympian Big Dance 2012

Details of Big Dance 2012 were unveiled today by choreographer Wayne McGregor, who will create a new dance for 2,000 people to perform in Trafalgar Square next year.

As previously announced, Royal Ballet resident choreographer McGregor will direct the large-scale routine at the centre of the festival, which will become nationwide in 2012 as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

Big Dance 2012 will run from July 7 to 15, 2012 with events across the UK. The Trafalgar Square event is scheduled for July 14, 2012. This will follow a world record attempt on May 18, 2012 to create the largest multi-location dance routine with schools across the world.

McGregor commented: “I am excited at the prospect of being part of Big Dance. A major part of my preoccupation over the last few years has been to see how I can find ways to inspire creativity among young dancers and choreographers. Trafalgar Square will be the ultimate dance stage for all of us to work on.”

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.