Posts Tagged ‘victoria square’

Wings of Desire Videos

Over four nights in May thousands of people witnessed Wings of Desire, the breathtaking finale of IDFB 2012, in Victoria Square. Starring Goldie, 2Faced Dance Company and Circa, along with the angels who gathered on rooftops around the square, Wings of Desire also featured the most amazing transformation of a Birmingham building ever seen, as Town Hall was bathed in magical moving imagery from architectural projection experts seeper.

Wings of Desire corde lisse 1, photo Tim Cross

You can now see the highlights of Wings of Desire in the video below, along with interviews with some of the creative team:

You can also see the full projection mapping sequence here:

Goldie spoke to us straight after the final performance:

Watch the crowd gathering in Victoria Square before the first performance:

Click here to see some of the footage the was captured by people in the audience over the four nights.

You can find out more about Wings of Desire by clicking here.

Photo credit: Tim Cross

Wings of Desire Reaction

Last night saw IDFB 2012 take over Victoria Square for the world premiere of our dramatic and awe-inspiring finale, Wings of Desire.

2Faced Dance Company

On YouTube, you can see some of the highlights of the stunning architectural projections which light up Town Hall:

As well as a lovely timelapse video of the audience building in the square as the sun goes down:

You can see more pictures like the one above, from last night’s performance, on Facebook, and you can read some of the amazing feedback we received on Twitter below:

We also rounded up some of the pictures taken by the audience:

Wings of Desire runs nightly, at 9.30pm, in Victoria Square until Saturday 19 May.

Remembering Utopia

Utopia 06

(Utopia 06 by Pete Ashton)

The centrepiece of IDFB 2010 this year was Utopia – a wild, outdoor dance spectacular mixing contemporary dancers with Russian, Spanish, Indian and African folk dance groups, all under the direction of Arthur Pita.

Victoria Square was filled by a sprawling stage, around 40 dancers and the music of Birmingham’s (only?) turbo-folk Gypsy and Balkan band, The Destroyers. We captured some of the action, as you can see in this slideshow:

With such a large , public audience there were many in the crowd taking their own photos and videos. YouTube user testmatch has made this video which gives a great flavour of what went on:

We’ve added more videos to our favourites on YouTube. We’ve also been scouring Flickr for photos and have found some really good ones, including some by Martin Pickard, Katchooo, Pedro Kwezi, Afrotography, Andy Brittle, Tan Hussein and Pete Ashton. Here’s a few of them:

Utopia Preview Night at Victoria Square

(Utopia Preview Night at Victoria Square by Tan Hussein)

Utopia_Sunday-3

(Utopia Sunday 3 by Katchooo)

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(By Afrotography)