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Just like our inaugural festivals, Pomegranates 2024 features a full day of continuous professional development, packed with Scottish and world trad dance workshops led by artists based in Scotland – FREE and open to all advanced level dance artists. Please note that registration is required here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/pomegranatesfest/pomegranates-festival-world-traditional-dance-12-professional-development-workshops/e-mdjzxx
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This year the lineup includes 12 back-to-back 30-minute workshops led by trad dance artists and choreographers, including Nadia Khattab (Dabkeh), Lara Russo (Tammurriata), Jack Anderson (Irish Step), Angel Godwin (American Country Line), Tony Chen (Chinese Classical Dance), Evie Waddell (Scottish Step and Gaelic song), Vassia Bouchagiar-Walker (Rebetiko), Sabie Madubela (Xhosa), Niki and Yangyang (Waltz), Brigitte Cicilya Juliet (Indonesian Folk) and Gica Loeling (Yiddish).
All workshops will be accompanied by live instrumental or vocal music, including our musicians-in-residence Nemo Ganguili and Chris Lyons.
In addition, all workshops will be attended in-person or online by our Pomegranates Festival 2024 artists-in-residence, including Jonzi D (hip hop theatre), Mare Tralla (screen dance/performance art), Jim Mackintosh(poetry/spoken word/storytelling) who will draw inspiration to create their creative responses to be presented at the Pomegranates festival finale on the stage of the Scottish Storytelling Centre on Monday 29 April 2024, 7pm - a triple bill of poetry, dance and screen dance to mark UNESCO's International Day of Dance. Further details and how to book here: https://www.facebook.com/events/385035591098686
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"But how did 'pomegranates' become a metaphor for the process of creative professional development? It was in the process of curating the pilot festival edition of Pomegranates 2022 when we came across the line “Attracts me like a pomegranate”. It was initially the second line of the Beatles song Something (1969) written by George Harrison. “Pomegranate” was only used as a temporary filler before Harrison settled on the final lyrics, yet for us, pomegranates came to stand for the process of workshopping and learning often hidden from the public eye." Iliyana Nedkova and Wendy Timmons, Co-curators of Pomegranates festival
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Established in 2022, Pomegranates is Scotland’s annual festival of world trad dance. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland and produced in partnership with TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland), Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh City Libraries, Dance Base and the Scottish Storytelling Centre. This year, the festival season started on 24 February and culminates in a long weekend of trad dance events 25-30 April, packed with artists’ residencies and social dance sessions, exhibitions and tours, shows and workshops, plus our first Pomegranates Family Sunday.
Find out more about Pomegranates festival here: https://linktr.ee/pomegranatesfest
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St. Leonard's Land Dance Studio, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ, United Kingdom
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