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• ‘It’s important to build pride’: Coventry looks to future as UK city of culture

  15-05-2021 09:00
  
  Organisers have faced huge challenges in the Covid pandemic, but hope their events can help rejuvenate the arts sectorUnder the colourful kaleidoscope of Coventry’s latest public artwork, Chenine Bhathena reflects on what the next 12 months hold for the city as it begins its year as the UK’s city of culture after a four-month delay due to the pandemic.“The city is transforming around us. I think it will be really important to build pride for people here, and to be able to show
  
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• A Dancer Who Connects A History Of Dance Through Her Body

  15-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To watch her dance, especially to jazz music, is to watch historical distance collapse. Steps and attitudes separated by eras flow through her improvising body not as some premeditated fusion but as a single language she appears to have always known and yet is creating on the spot. The links are self-evident, unforced, authentic without a hint of the antiquarian. They’re active, present, a live circuit. The revelatory shock can make you laugh out loud.” – The New York T
  
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