Pleased to announce that our Match Make collaboration with Maiden Voyage dance has been chosen to be part of the British Council’s #ReConnect – 2021 UK China Contemporary Culture festival

The festival will run from 1st to 30th September and will offer audiences in China the opportunity to #Reconnect with art and culture from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.

Match Make is eight short films by Northern Irish based Dance Artists and their collaborators. It was created in response to the artist’s changing relationship to their internal and external environments during the first pandemic lockdown in 2020 and includes natural, industrial, rural, urban and coastal settings.

This is the first time all eight films have been screened together.

Watch Match Make and the other festival events at http://reconnect.britishcouncil.cn/

Streams of can be viewed from 20.58 seconds here http://reconnect.britishcouncil.cn/activity/match-make/

‘Streams of...’ is a short film made during lockdown with support from @maidenvoyageni @artsni_ in collaboration with @michael_mce

Filmed in June 2020 after 12 weeks of lockdown we took the opportunity to respond to the landscape in an experimental, improvised and physically distanced way.

Maiden Voyage are principally funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and supported by Belfast City Council.