Pleasance Theatre Presents CLOUD DANCE FESTIVAL: TROUBLE & DESIRE, 3/26-3/28

Cloud Dance Festival's first festival of 2010 will be featuring very special guests Mavin Khoo, and award-winning Rambert dancer Jonathan Goddard in Goddard/Nixon Project, guests from the recent TV dance competitions So You Think You Can Dance and Got To Dance, Ballet of Ireland's Morgann Runacre-Temple, past audience favourites, and a fresh new selection of the best in new and emerging contemporary dance.... with some additional guests yet to be confirmed!

Cloud Dance welcomes back recent festival successes Slanjayvah Danza, Taciturn, Hyanglae Jin and Sol Dans; Scarlett Perdereau will be returning with the final version of a piece originally created for Cloud Dance Festival in September '08, and Welsh repertory company Ffin Dance will be making a rare London appearance. Other returning performers include sisters Aya and Hana Saotome, and Cascade Dance, with a brand new piece created specifically for this festival.

The pieces selected for this festival include an exploration of Grimms' fairy tales, the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, happiness, social interaction and ‘20s Mexico.

The international flavour of this festival reflects the artistic diversity within the London dance industry, and the creativity produced by multinational collaborations: we will be presenting London-based choreographers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Finland, Canada, France, USA and Madeira, with companies travelling from Leeds, Liverpool, South Wales and Tunbridge Wells to participate.

Cloud Dance Festival aims to present a selection of high-quality contemporary dance three times a year, with its lineups consisting of a mixture of special guests, returning festival favourites, and new applicants - offering the audience a variety of pieces which promise to be provocative, humorous, contemplative and insightful. Above all, Trouble & Desire offers the audience innovative and fresh pieces of contemporary dance from around the world that reinforces London's love affair with this genre. With at least 19 companies performing across three evenings, Cloud Dance Festival is not just any dance festival...!

The Cloud Dance Festival will take place at the Pleasance Theatre, located in the Carpenters Mews, North Road, London N7 9EF, from March 26 - 28. Performances will take place at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £12 (£8 concessions); limited free tickets for those under 26. For more information call the Box Office: 020 7609 1800 or visit www.pleasance.co.uk. For more information on the festival itself, visit www.cloud-dance-festival.org.uk.