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Tour de Cyprus
By Lydia Polzer for The Dancing Times

Richard Alston Dance Company’s last stop on their tour this season was a lovely island in the Mediterranean. The British Council Cyprus invited the company to the 6th European Dance Festival, which is only one of many efforts as of late to further dance in Greek Cyprus, which next year will be part of the EU, and the local dance community has potential for a bright future.

Maybe Christopher Columbus felt a bit like this when he got to the shores of a continent he couldn’t have been sure existed, and found a whole new world complete with human civilisation. With no prior knowledge of the Cyprus dance community, every day spent on the island revealed a new aspect of and growing enthusiasm for a whole new dance world complete with RAD exams.

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