Flavia Cacace shares excitement at North East performance

A chat with the iconic dancer Flavia Cacace who brings Viva Carnival with Oti Mabuse to Gateshead on June 13.

Transcript

00:00what's the concept of the show well viva carnival is as kind of the name suggests it's going to be

00:13one big party that's what i know and i guess i'm there to bring a slightly different element to

00:19the show with maybe an essence of tango so it's a little bit more moody of course whenever you

00:25choreograph a show and you create a show you want it to have light and shade so as much as it's going

00:31to be an overall party we i'm sure we're going to want to have moments where it's a little bit

00:35calmer so that we can you know make the most of them the high moments so that's kind of i think

00:42what i'll be bringing to the show but in essence you're going to come and have an amazing time

00:46it's going to be incredible music the atmosphere is going to be electric and uh yeah and overall

00:52it's going to be a fab night out really and you're going to gateshead for the show can i ask how i

00:58feel about your northeast trip i love it i mean i i love the north of england i the you know the

01:03the audience is you know they are they get so involved in the show um and for us you know when

01:11we're on stage that's really what we want because the more they get involved with what we're doing

01:16the more energy we have so sometimes you can go and perform in a theater and if the audience are

01:22really quiet it's really hard work you just can't gauge whether they're enjoying it not enjoying

01:27it but obviously anywhere up north they are just amazing um sometimes that you know they even start

01:33talking to you while you're on stage um and shouting things out so um yeah i did i love all the theaters

01:39up there and just generally i yeah the north of england i have a soft spot for is there anything you plan

01:45to do whilst in gateshead or newcastle um shopping i think it's pretty good for shopping isn't it

01:52so yeah i think have a nice wander around the shops uh the town and just you know absorb the vibe

01:59um and enjoy you know the beautiful theaters godless of where people are in the uk why should

02:05they get tickets to see you in viva carnival well as i said i've not performed for six years which is um

02:12you know it's quite a long time and i guess it's a little bit um not everybody kind of has a break

02:19and then has a comeback as well and this is just a start it's just the first stepping stone back into

02:25it but i'm fortunate enough that you know i feel like i have the the energy and the uh mental and

02:31physical kind of i'm in a place where i can do that and i had such great support from everybody from

02:36audiences all over the uk for eight years when i was touring with vincent that i hope that um they

02:43can come again and support me and enjoy you know the show and any other projects that i go on to doing

02:51really and hopefully if they got some enjoyment before they'll get more enjoyment now this is the

02:57start of the long return is there anything else fabulous you'd like to mention that you've got coming

03:02up um not at the moment lots of things in the pipeline um i'm going to get my teeth stuck into

03:09this project because obviously it's the first project back for a while so i want to really try

03:13and focus um but i've got lots of other things bubbling up under the surface for next year which

03:19would be exciting so yes watch this space but in the meantime i'm going to be 110 committed to uh viva

03:27carnival