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Bellydance Superstars
It’s back, it’s bigger and it’s better than ever before. Europe’s largest bellydancing festival – Raqs Britannia – is taking its place once again from Friday 5 June to Sunday 7 June 2009 in Blackpool.
The weekend extravaganza of bellydancing will be hosted by the world famous Bellydance Superstars, who will also be taking to the stage on the evening of Saturday 6 June.
The Bellydance Superstars is the brainchild of music impresario Miles Copeland, former manager of The Police and Sting. Copeland’s father worked for the CIA in the Middle East, where he spent many formative years of his childhood and grew in love with its music and culture.
As bellydance begins to attract a younger audience and new talent is increasingly developing, another highlight of the weekend will be the festival’s first ‘Junior Bellydance Competition’ on Sunday 7 June for dancers aged 19 and under. The competition will see young talent from all over the UK shimmying away in front of judges Sophie Mei from Britain’s Got Talent, Copeland himself and a selection of the Bellydance Superstars’ troupe to become the UK’s number one junior bellydancer.
