Tomorrow at Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth's national dance house, we are hosting the Big Dance Schools Pledge 2012  1pm - 1.15pm (Fri 18th May) on the Pavilion Dance terraces.

Hundreds of local school children will be dancing a routine choreographed by famous choreographer, Wayne McGregor and joining other schools across the UK for the "Largest Dance Routine" Guinness World Record attempt. It takes place the same day that the Olympic Torch arrives in the UK.

The Schools Pledge is in two parts:
Learn the choreography and take part in a Guinness World Record attempt for the 'Largest Dance Routine - Multi-venue' at 1pm on 18 May 2012
Undertake to do an additional 20 minutes of dance a day during Big Dance week (7-15 July 2012)
Schools have previously downloaded the choreography onlince, while in Dorset, members of the Pavilion Dance team, Kirsty Biggenden and Michaela Shaw have visited schools and taught the routine to students, ready for the big day.

Big Dance 2012 will be the UK’s biggest celebration of dance. Thousands of events will take place across the UK in all sorts of locations – lidos, parks, palaces, schools, high streets and squares – in all dance styles, as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the cultural Olympiad.

Photography and filming opportunity: Big Dance Schools Pledge 1pm - 1.15pm (followed by a free giant outdoor class, Music Video Dance class where peole can learn the routine to one of their favourite music videos)

Interviews available: with Kirsty Biggenden, Children and Young People's Lead and Deryck Newland, Artistic Director

For more information, please contact Jo O'Connell, Marketing Manager, Pavilion Dance South West T: 01202 203630 E: jo.oconnell@dancesouthwest.org.uk