Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage this year celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2025, founded, curated and produced by Artistic Director Pawlet Brookes MBE.
Launching on 29 April, International Dance Day, at Serendipity’s new offices and performance space in Leicester, LDIF25’s programme features performances on 12 May by Cia Pé no Mundo and 16–17 May by Ballet Hispánico.
Speakers and workshop facilitators include Melissa M Young (The Horton Technique), Eduardo Vilaro (Ballet Hispánico), Alexandra Davis (The Dunham Technique), Thomas Talawa Prestø (Tabanka Dance Ensemble), Claudine Carter Pereira (The Forensic Ballerina), Luanda Pau (Afro-Cuban culture) and Kurt Douglas (Límon / Boston Conservatory).
Brookes said, “this year’s theme Intersection: Diasporic Dialogues addresses the need to build stronger bonds and unity across the diaspora. Black culture, whether rooted in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, the USA or Europe, is connected by a shared global history. Our theme seeks to explore how we can connect those threads to honour the past, present and future of black dance in all its complexity.”