This is for you  By Anna Macdonald/ Forecast Dance 

Review:​​
Our private dancer...

It wasn’t Tina Turner but she was just as good. Poppy and myself enjoyed our own private dance today, an inspired feature of this weekend’s Nantwich Festival of Arts. We went along to the arts marquee in the square at our allotted time and were led around to Cheshire Lamont in Hospital Street. We climbed all the way up to the second floor and were taken to a window overlooking the corner of Pillory Street and the pavement outside WHSmiths. We soon clocked a girl standing looking at us. She gave us a smile and waved. She then started to pace, as though she was counting her steps and I wondered if she was ‘the one.’ After a while she unfurled a banner which said ‘This is for you.’ And then she started to dance. It was beautiful. The dance flowed and ebbed and every so often the dancer looked up and smiled right at us. She didn’t care about the bewildered passers-by or the rain.

I felt like I really was being ‘romanced.’ And then the mobile phone infront of us rang and we had a conversation with ‘our dancer’ who asked us if we would like her to do anything to bring the dance to an end. Poppy requested a cartwheel and a handstand – which she did – in the rain, which was by now coming down quite hard! Then suddenly there was music playing, which was the perfect accompaniment to the final dance. And then the dancer slowly sidled around the corner and with a last smile she was gone. Someone came to switch off the music and we left, stopping at the expansive art gallery on the 2nd floor (I had no idea there was all that luxurious space above those offices in Hospital Street – that was even more of an eye opener than the art, although the art was great (Poppy especially loved the Beano pig) Don’t miss the final day of Nantwich Festival of Arts tomorrow (10-4pm)

Window Works was designed by Forecast Dance and made possible by the Axis Arts Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University