Dancers from Beaconsfield to perform at French festival

Dancers from Beaconsfield to perform at French festival

June 15th, 2010 |

Those about to embark on their annual French holiday are in for a treat, as the country prepares for the Fête de la Musique.

The festival started in France in 1982 and was instantly popular. This has led to it being celebrated in more than one hundred countries around the world including Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Australia.

The festival takes place on the longest day of summer each year and this year’s celebrations on June 21, will be the 29th time the event has taken place. Organisers say the theme of this year’s festival will be ‘Women in Music’ and nine young dancers from Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, are set to travel to France for the event.

A cultural project was organised by the Beaconsfield Twinning Association, which saw Beaconsfield twinned with Langres, a town in the Dijon region of France. The group of girls aged between 11 and 15 will perform three dance pieces created by their ballet teacher as part of the celebrations in Langres.

Teacher and choreographer Annik Coatalen, was cited in the local paper Bucks Free Press as saying:”The girls have all worked very hard to pull together a demanding and exciting programme. We are very excited to have the opportunity to show what we can do before an international audience.”

Whilst in Langres, the girls from Baylins Ballet Barn, will stay with local families in the medieval walled town.

Beaconsfield Twinning Association chairman, Deborah Sanders said: “The Twinning Association has a long history of promoting cultural exchanges and youth exchanges and this is a wonderful opportunity to do both.”