Dance artist wins prestigious Venice Biennale award

Posted on: 06 Apr 2017

Former Cardiff Dance Festival artist, Dana Michel, who premiered her UK tour of Yellow Towel at Chapter in 2015 has won the prestigious Silver Lion for innovation in Dance award at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Yellow Towel, which digs into black culture stereotypes, turning them inside out to see what is revealed beneath performed to two sell out shows at Chapter in November 2015 and Canadian dancer Dana Michel will now take her work to one of the biggest arts festivals in the world.

Did you attend the Artes Mundi exhibition? Tell us what you think.

Posted on: 02 Apr 2017

The Audience Agency are working alongside Artes Mundi to help them understand the impact of the work they do. Part of this research is a focus group for people who have visited the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition (either at Chapter or at the National Museum or both) to tell them what they thought of it.