Press Release: Spaghetti Junction. BBC Arts to stream a new short dance film by Corey Baker Dance

[Jan McNulty]

 
PRESS RELEASE
16 April 2020

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COREY BAKER DANCE PRESENTS A SHORT FILM COLLOBORATION WITH
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET AND HONG KONG BALLET

 

SPAGHETTI JUNCTION

Photo credit: Corey Baker Dance

·      New film to be made available via BBC.CO.UK/ARTS on Earth Day, Wednesday 22 April 2020 at 07.00 BST

 

·      Set beneath Birmingham’s (in)famous Spaghetti Junction, the new film raises awareness of the impact of climate change

 

·      First ever international collaboration between Birmingham Royal Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet and Corey Baker Dance. 

 

Birmingham based company Corey Baker Dance, run by award-winning choreographer/director Corey Baker, has created a new short film titled Spaghetti Junction.  The film will receive its world premiere screening through BBC’s Culture in Quarantine on 22 April from 07.00 BST for Earth Day to raise awareness of the impact of climate change.

 

Shot beneath Birmingham’s famous Spaghetti Junction, the film features Gus Payne and Haoliang Feng, from Birmingham Royal Ballet and Forrest Rain Oliveros, from Hong Kong Ballet and marks the first ever collaboration between Birmingham Royal Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet and Corey Baker Dance.  The film came from Baker’s larger collaboration and work with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham Hippodrome and Arts Council England to celebrate Chinese New Year 2020.

 

Corey Baker Dance has an international reputation for creating a diverse array of work across film, TV, theatre, using unusual locations and reaching non-traditional theatre audiences.  His first film Antarctica: The First Dance, was filmed on the icy contient celebrating Antarctica while we still have it.  The film was commissioned by The Space and Channel 4 Random Acts and featured Royal New Zealand Ballet principal dancer Madeleine Graham. Antarctica: The First Dance  has been seen by over 5 million people around the globe to date.

 

Lying Together, the companion film for Spaghetti Junction, featuring Hong Kong Ballet was filmed on rooftops and urban green spaces of Hong Kong and also shares a message around climate change.  Lying Together will be released later this year.

 

Set to music by acclaimed band FKJ, Spaghetti Junction was created in partnership with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Hong Kong Ballet, and funded by Arts Council England, Birmingham Hippodrome, West Midlands Growth Company and Southside BID

 

You can watch the world premiere screening of Spaghetti Junction at 07.00 BST on BBC.CO.UK/ARTS on Wednesday 22 April, Earth Day.  

 

Earth Day started in 1970 and is now the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 190 countries to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide and drive positive action for our planet.

 

NOTES TO EDITORS:    

Spaghetti Junction full credit list;

• Director/ Choreographer: Corey Baker
• Producers:  Corey Baker and Anne Beresford 
• Dancers: Gus Payne, Haoliang Feng from Birmingham Royal Ballet and Forrest Rain Oliveros from Hong Kong Ballet 
• Music: FKJ, Lying Together (Interlude)
• DOP: Robert Beck 
• Editor: Dani Jacobs 
• Partners: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet  
• Funders: Arts Council England, West Midlands Growth Company, Birmingham Hippodrome, Southside BID
• Supporters: The Space, Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Film Birmingham, Julie’s Bicycle
• Production company: Corey Baker Dance Ltd.