Our mission in short – watch the trailer:
Die BASEL DANCE ACADEMY wird am Festivalprogramm von Freitag und Sonntag teilnehmen und am Samstag eine abendfüllende eigene Vorstellung darbieten.
Bales Dance Academy
The Basel Dance Academy has a history of more than 10 years of dance education. Founded by ex-soloist of the Basel Ballet Galina Gladkova-Hoffmann, it is an established as a well-known school in Basel, attracting dancers from North-Western Switzerland, Southern Germany and the French Alsace. The BDA has a unique concept of offering a professional dance education while at the same time allowing the students to attend their normal school. The BDA is known for its yearly performances at the Théâtre La Coupole in Saint-Louis, France, its Christmas adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker as «The Golden Nut» and its yearly summer camp at Château de Villersexel. Besides classical and modern ballet, the BDA organizes regular musical theatre workshops and includes this style in its performances.
See also BDA website and facebook page.
Galina Gladkova
Galina Gladkova was working as a professional dancer and studied contrabass. After a horse accident, she became tetraplegic. Despite her fate, Canadian born Galina managed to establish a dance school celebrating its ten years anniversary. Picture above: Galina instructing dancers on stage.
See also Galina’s facebook page and a report on telebasel TV
13th Festival of diversity in Kaufbeuren
The 13th «Festival of diversity» (Festival der Vielfalt) from 23 September to 3 October 2016 bears the slogan «Diversity as a chance». An important part of the festival will take place in the city theatre (Stadtsaal) under the slogan «Kaufbeuren invites friends». The organizers saw the Basel Dance Academy perform their last «Summerdance’s» program and invited them to their festival.
The following performances of the Basel Dance Academy are planned:
- 30.09. in the evening as part of the overall program
- 01.10. at 18:00 showing BDA’s own full-length program
- 02.10. around noon as part of the overall program
See also the event’s website and facebook page
Why do we need your help?
While it is an honor for the Basel Dance Academy to be invited, travel and accommodation for the total of 35 dancers and staff are expensive and only partly funded by existing sources. Therefore, they are heavily relying on the generosity of friends, parents, grandparents, godparents and all people who support young dancers to make this happen.
Support and become part of the community
No matter what amount you can afford to support, we are offering you many nice rewards and all dancers and staff are looking forward to treat you with these!