phil cunliffe went to find out more.or the rhythm of the tide — blackpool and dancing go hand in hand. the title uk's capital of dance is one that organisers of the new festival have bestowed on themselves, but perhaps with good reason. blackpool's got an unrivalled heritage in dance, from the days of the victorian dance trains used that to bring hundreds of people to dance on central pier, through to the big band era, emperor's ballroom, the tower ballroom, then we had the heyday of variety. disco, northern soul, superclubs and now we have strictly. where else could you possibly launch a festival like this? the idea of the festival is to create a dance and movement version of the edinburgh fringe across multiple locations, inside and outdoors. there'll be dozens of live shows, community events and street dancing, like this. we're going to be doing some performances, workshops, djing. an opportunity for people to get involved and learn a little bit more about breakdance, because that's in the olympics now, so people are

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