If you are a professional composer, choreographer or are involved with a dance group through a school, a social club, a youth group or in the community then we want to hear from you. That was the message from City of York Council's lifelong learning and leisure team today.

The team is aiming to commission four choreographers and four composers to create a ten minute dance or music composition with eight local dance groups which will be performed at the Barbican in June as part of Dance Week York 2002.

Janetta Maxwell, dance consultant for York performing arts service, said, "This is a fantastic opportunity for local dance groups to collaborate with a professional composer or choreographer on a new piece of work that can be any dance genre or musical style."

Anyone seeking more information and an application form should contact Janetta at the Performing Arts Service on telephone number 01904 554660.

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