Blanca Li takes the urban street-dance style Electro - a dazzling mix of breaking, disco, vogue, popping and locking - off the streets of Paris, mixes it up with some theatre and an amazing soundtrack and gives you Elektro Kif.

Elektro Kif is a show about the hopes and fears, friendships, fights and rivalries of an all-male cast of eight exceptional young Electro dancers, following them through a typical day at college. It's funny, fast, colourful and anarchic and features an exhilarating soundtrack by Tao Gutierrez, which combines techno with electro house, afrobeat, sampling, and classical music.

Street dance like you've never seen before.

Part of Dancin' Oxford 2012

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Drawing dance workshop 24th of May 6-9pm at The North Wall, led by 2 visual artists, focused on drawing the dancing figure.

To enrol or for additional information e-mail k.isaacson@btinternet.com

Cafe Reason hosts a two day workshop 'The Body Speaks' at The Old Fire Station, Oxford. It will be a great opportunity to learn from Yael Karavan's unique combination of Dance, physical theatre, Butoh and mime.

Yael explores some of the key issues for the performer, and is offering a palette of tools and possibilities in the creative process exploring ‘presence’, metamorphoses, rhythm, intention, imagery and counterpoint as well as how to relate creatively to material, objects and space.

'As performers our being is our tool of expression and as such it is a rather complex and rich tool'. Yael is offering a number of creative approaches to facilitate the imaginative journey and the pleasure to rediscover our 'tool' through games, improvisations and exploration of the infinite possibilities that are hidden within ourselves.

Yael Karavan is an inspiring performer/director and tours internationally. Please see her website http://www.yaelkaravan.com/news.html for more info and her biog.

And visit Cafe Reason's events's page at www.cafereason.com/main/diary.htm

Closing date for booking is Wednesday the 15th of February

Dances of Universal Peace: a powerful & joyful spiritual practice & experience, chanting while dancing in a circle. Ralph’s & Vitalija’s style is intense, deep into the heart - and yet light and humorous, supported with drum & guitar.

We love playing with polarities by offering a mix of fiery ecstatic dances, slow meditative flowing movements, joyful Jewish dances, harmony Hallelujas, Sufi zikrs, lots of partner dances - and adding harmonies (men and women singing different voices at the same time).

"The spiritual dance has no other purpose, no other aim than to elevate [hu]mankind beyond self-thought, to joy, to bliss, to realization and to peace ... the sincere dancer is one of the best workers for universal harmony, and so, for universal peace..."

(Samuel Lewis, founder of the Dances of Universal Peace)

Please bring some nibbles or finger food for the tea break) and loose clothing.

Times: 1-5pm

Cost: £15.- (if that's too much for you: please give as much as you can afford - we don't want to turn anyone away because of lack of money!)

Contact north Oxfordshire: Stella 01295 720096 darkestella@gmail.com

Following the very successful visit to Burton Taylor Studio at the Oxford Playhouse last year, Between returns for one evening only.

The dancer approaches and embeds herself within her audience, her arm loosely covered with gold leaf. She claims attention. Meanwhile, in the distance another performer is preoccupied in her private space, absorbed in subtle gestures preparing for what is to come...

Choreographer Angela Woodhouse and Jerwood award-winning artist Caroline Broadhead bring this stunning performance installation to the Burton Taylor Studio.

Performances are 45 minutes and run at 6pm, 6.45pm and 7.45pm.

Following the sell-out success in 2011, this year’s dance showcase features six of Oxford’s talented artists, all creating newly commissioned works for the Festival. Come along and enjoy a varied programme of high quality work including contemporary, dance theatre, hip hop and aerial dance. Early booking is strongly recommended.

Anja Meinhardt - contemporary

Emma Webb - dance theatre

Joe Lott - contemporary

Aya Kobayashi - contemporary

Sole Rebel Tap - Urban Tap

Naomi McLeod - aerial/corde lisse