"there is telepathy between hearts" 
- Rubab Zaidi

Missy White & Genya Bartashevich

We are stars wrapped in skin. 
The light you are seeking has always been within. 
 
- Rumi

Kristi Nadvornik & Mayo Alanen

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Alessandra Di Lazaro & Manuel Vampo, Italy

Andre & Alexandra, USA

There are shortcuts to happiness 
And dancing is one of them. 
 
- Vicki Baum

Afton Fraser & Clemens Lengenfelder

Diane & Yegor

Love is the bridge 
between you and everything 
 
- Rumi

Carolyn Keating & Enzo Zappia

The beauty you see in me 
is a reflection of you. 
 
- Rumi

Khuong Pham & Jessie Mineau, Canada

Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers 
the believers and the thinkers 
but most of all surround yourself with those 
who see the greatness within you 
even when you don't see it yourself. 
 
- Edmund Lee

Alissa Quinn & Florin Vlad, USA

Annie

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A Dancer's Paradise

Lesley  & Volodymyr

Irene Fong & Slawek Sochacki

Lynn Murrell & Andrea Zaramella

Pinky & Guiseppe

So here I am, all of my doubts 
All my insecurities 
All my best and worst moments 
All the beautiful things I feel 
On this dance floor 
 
- Irma Tan

Irma Tan, USA

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. 
 
— Pablo Picasso

Dana Miller & Oreste Alitto, USA

The art of art, 
the glory of expression 
and the sunshine of the light of letters, 
is simplicity. 
 
- Walt Whitman

Chloe Sweet, USA

If you only say one prayer in a day 
make it thank you. 
 
- Rumi

Michaela Puno & Serge Machon, Phillipines

Shakespeare

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Friends on the floor

Mariko Lawrence & Paulius Vaskelis

Love is the whole thing. 
We are only pieces. 
 
-Rumi

Audria Hill-Mitchell & Peter Perzhu

Patricia Schneider & Slawek Sochacki

Kinga & Artem

Diana & Alyosha

Sabrina & Fabrizion

Gretchen Fenton & Michael Choi, USA

Krista Hughes & Tykhon Zhyvkov

Kendra Michaels & Lucas Spisak

Under the Lights

Haley Hernandez & Oreste Alitto

Careen Friedland & Slava Kostients

Golden Hour

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Ola Glodek & Kharyton Khomenko

Amy Liu

The essence of all beautiful art 
all great art 
is gratitude

Jacqueline & Sarwat

Art enables us 
to find ourselves 
and lose ourselves 
at the same time. 
 
- Thomas Merton

Mike Brown & Anna Oblakova, USA

Kris Hizer & Christopher Wayne

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Smooth Comes to Blackpool

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Dance for me a minute, 
and I'll tell you who you are. 
 
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

Cora Yan, Hong Kong

Crescendo

Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten 
it knows the sacred that is within all that exists 
and through a depth of feeling we can once again 
experience this connection, this belonging. 
 
-Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Michelle Mazal & Roman Italyankin, USA

Janice Stanton & Clive Phillips

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Happy Feet

Nichelle Kennedy & Aleks Nashev

Alfie & Claire

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Debra & Andrea

All that we see or seem 
is but a dream within a dream. 
 
- Edgar Allen Poe

Deborah Tipley & Mirko Spano, USA

This is the real secret of life -- 
to be completely engaged 
with what you are doing in the here and now. 
And instead of calling it work, 
realize it is play. 
 
- Alan Watts

Beth Kin & Arthur Kozun

what is stronger 
than the human heart 
which shatters over and over 
and still lives 
 
- Rupi Kaur

Reena Kaul & Ihar Kisialiou

Patty Chu

Victoria Alberto & Riccardo Cocchi

The essence of all beautiful art 
all great art 
is gratitude. 
 
- Nietzsche

Bobbi Childers & Lucas Spisak

Christine Campbell, Australia

Sophia D'Angelo & Max Sinista

The Kiss BW

Feather Steps

The Entrance

Bih Hua Chen & Alexander Zhiratkov, Taiwan

Julie Smith & Alan Tentser, Australia

Ozlem Koldemir & Michael Choi

Hope and Memory have one daughter 
and her name is Art. 
 
- Willima Butler Yeats

Alan Weidlich & Katie Padilla

Time machines exists 
And they are called photographs

John Thomas & Jody Rollason, Australia

Art is the highest form of hope. 
 
- Gerhard Richter

Christine Lee & Marek Gabor

Art is something that makes you breathe 
with a difference kind of happiness 
 
- Anni Albers

Rita Lurito & Clemens Lengenfelder, USA

Art is not what you see 
but what you make others see. 
 
-Edgar Degas

Rebecca Wong & Richard Lifshitz, Canada

Lynn Hayes & Tim Pennenga

Diane Luensmann & Sarwat Kaluby

We see in the world 
What we carry in our hearts 
 
- Goethe

Winona Zhang & Adam, Canada

Every artist dips his brush in his soul 
and paints his own nature 
into his paintings. 
 
- Henry Ward Beecher

Miriam Donoho & Dmytro Churchun, USA

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your visions will become clear only 
when you can look into your own heart, 
who looks outside, dreams; 
who looks inside, awakens. 
 
- Carl Jung

David Donoho & Alina Churchun

Rosario Gatmaytan & Ferdinand San Felix

Sometimes you will never know 
The value of a moment until it 
becomes a memory." 
 
- Dr. Seuss

Katherine Ye & Sergiy Chyslov

Leisel Ward & Igor Ifliand, Australia

Jill Worth & Mayo Alanen

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. 
 
- Agnes De Mille

Deborah Kangas & Christopher Wayne, USA

Whenever you are creating beauty around you 
you are restoring your own soul. 
 
-Alice Walker

Elaine Lim & Ben Taylor

Pictures Lines

Airborn

The Light From Above

I know of no greater life purpose 
than to perish in attempting 
the great and the impossible. 
 
-Friedrich Nietzsche"

Barbara Cottrell & Boris Spitchka, USA

Find things beautiful as much as you can, 
most people find too little beautiful. 
 
- Vincent van Gogh

Hermelinda Abcede & Jason Daly, USA

Maybe the journey isn't so much 
about becoming anything. 
Maybe it's about un-becoming 
 everything that isn't really you, 
so you can be 
who you were meant to be 
in the first place. 
 
- Paulo Coelho

Alinda Lewris & Sinisa Vasic, USA

Tatiana Ponomareva

Pat Klien & Marek Gabor

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Art is the journey 
of a free soul 
 
- Alev Oguz

Ariel Xu & Daniel Hustiuc

Sherry Tucker & Vlad Astafiev

Gabbie Diassi Shah & Ivan Kudashev, USA

Blackpool: A Celebration of Dance is a photographic exhibition by Alexander Rowan showcasing over a decade of his work as freelance photographer at the Blackpool Dance Festival in the United Kingdom.

The collection is highlighted by abstract works 
showcasing the Empress Ballroom - one of the most storied & inconic venues in the history of ballroom dance.

But the heart and soul of the collection are the 
dancer’s who have dared to dream, and dreamed to dance on this hallowed floor, The exhibition aim’s to celebrate their lives and legacies on the dance floor.

The virtual exhibition will be accessible May 15th - June 21st and select works from the collection will be on display in person at in the festival in partnership with DanceShopper May 16th-29th, 2026.

Blackpool, A Celebration of Dance