Hollywood Meets Bollywood: A Splashing Community Dance Fusion Project at Ilkley Lido.
Hollywood meets Bollywood project took place at 12 July 2025 at Ilkley Lido !
It brought together 58 performers taking to land and water at Ilkley Lido.
Bollywood dancers fro Zoobin Surty Dance, some new , some experienced, perform a series of dances on the poolside of the lido. Then Bramley and Ilkley Mermaids , some who have never performed before, took to the water to perform two artistic swimming dances. The finale piece combined water and land choreography with the whole cast of performers.
After the performance, audience ‘had a go’ with over 100 people trying bollywod dance on land and in the pool.
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A Big Thank you to everyone who has made this possible: funders, supporters, organisations, volunteers, collaborators and all our performers.
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More about the Artists:
This is a collaboration between Zoobin Surty Company and Yorkshire Life Aquatic supported by Ilkley Lido, Ilkley Lido Community Group and Kala Sangam.
Zoobin Surty is an accomplished artist and choreographer with a broad and comprehensive training in Indian Classical dance forms and contemporary dance. He works extensively with communities across Yorkshire and internationally.
Yorkshire Life Aquatic creates choreography in water and on land inspired by vintage synchronised swimming shows – think Busby Berkeley and Esther Williams. Meet the modern Million Dollar Mermaids.
This project has been made possible by the Creative Communities Fund thanks to the Pears Foundation, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and Give Bradford #GiveLoveBradford
Artwork poster design by Ben Holden a Bradfordian multidisciplinary artist & musician living and working in the city of Bradford.
For me art is responding impulsively to the now, a flow-state, escapism. Working in this way, uninhibited by process or practice, means unbound creative freedom and possibilities.
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