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T In The Park Gets Active With Mass Dance Routine

• 27th Jun 2011

Next month's T in the Park audience are being asked to get 'active' onsite as they are invited to take part in the T-Dance – a mass dance routing due to take place at 3pm on the festival's Main Stage on Sunday, July 10th.

The 80's retro-style mass participation dance routine is part of the year of Active Scotland event programme, supported by EventScotland. The dance routine is to be hosted by two dancers live on stage, who will guide the crowd through the dance moves.

Specially choreographed for the festival, the dance routine will be broadcast on the jumbotron screens to the audience.

Paul Bush OBE, EventScotland Chief Operating Officer said: “It’s fantastic to see T in the Park, one of Scotland’s biggest events, embracing the values of the year of Active Scotland by promoting the benefits of an energetic and healthy lifestyle. The T-Dance is a unique and spontaneous way to encourage and inspire festival-goers, and the people of Scotland and its visitors to get active. T in the Park is a fantastic example of why Scotland is the perfect stage for the biggest and best active events.” 
 
The T-Dance will be set to none other than 80’s hip-hop floor filler ‘Push It’ by Salt-N-Pepa. The routine is choreographed by Barrowland Ballet’s Natasha Gilmore who has danced and devised for The Institute of Crazy Dancing and BBC’s The Big Dance Class, has choreographed music videos for Basement Jaxx and is a former Artist in Residence at Dance House, Glasgow. The dancers who will lead on stage are Vince Virr (of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake) and Jade Adamson (of Barrowland Ballet).
 
Choreographer Natasha Gilmore comments:“T in the Park's crowd is renowned the world over so who better to participate in a huge dance routine with us before Blondie perform on the Main Stage. We will be showing some of the key movements from the dance on the Main Stage screens over the weekend so we're anticipating some great moves and grooves from the crowd at 3pm on the Sunday.”

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