{"id":48376,"date":"2021-08-19T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/outstanding-response-for-dance-festival-20210818-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:07:39","slug":"outstanding-response-for-dance-festival-20210818-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/outstanding-response-for-dance-festival-20210818-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding response for dance festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Popular dance festival attracts hundreds of performers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE Port Elizabeth Dance Festival has had an outstanding response to their Ruby Celebration from 26 dance studios across the Eastern Cape with a total of 624 performances scheduled for festival week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_9401daff\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11380\/25a52aa0fc8f4739aecebea3a6c32ad8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11380\/91bf6b5c6ac14929bee748944ae67ba5.jpg\" title=\"Dancers Tiaan van Eeden (left) and JP Cloete from Leanka Laubscher School of Dance will participate in the forthcoming PE Dance Festival.      Photo: SUPPLIED\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Dancers Tiaan van Eeden (left) and JP Cloete from Leanka Laubscher School of Dance will participate in the forthcoming PE Dance Festival.      Photo: SUPPLIED<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Participation levels are exceptionally high considering the difficult conditions that studios have worked within during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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