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Icestock is an all-day, outdoor music festival held annually at McMurdo Station, Antarctica on or around New Year's Day. It was started in 1989 by three United States Antarctic Program employees who wanted to host a music festival in the style of Woodstock. [1] It is the southern-most music festival in the world. [1] [2]
Dances embody the Yup'ik conception of the world. The beliefs that stem from this conception are the models by which Yup'iks live. Today, a dance festival, both in preparation and the actual event, consumes an entire village with its significance, just as it did in pre-contact times. [1] The first Yup'ik dance festival is Yupiit Yuraryarait (lit.
A photo of the Carlini Base in 2018. Freeze 'Em All took place at the Carlini Base, an Argentine-operated base in Antarctica on December 8, 2013. [1] The concert was first hinted at by Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich in September 2013, when he stated that "there [was] a very interesting thing coming our way" in December of that year, and that there was "another frontier coming."
The Live Earth concert in Antarctica was held at Rothera Research Station, one in a series of Live Earth concerts that took place on July 7, 2007, in all seven continents. The band Nunatak performed as the lone act. Nunatak's performances, though performed in front of only 17 people, were broadcast all over the world.
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In 1898, the crew of the Belgica were the first to spend Midwinter Day in Antarctica, although there was no celebration to commemorate it. [2] The tradition of Midwinter celebration is most often credited to Robert Falcon Scott and the crew of the Discovery Expedition who, on June 23, 1902, observed "mid-winter festival" in a deliberate imitation of Christmas.
The InterDance Fest is the largest contemporary dance festival in Southeastern Europe. [1] It is held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.The festival was established in 2010 by the Aster Dance Club in cooperation with the Berlin Dance Institute, [2] the World DanceSport Federation [3] and the MTV Dance Europe television network. [4]
In 2007 Youth America Grand Prix became the first organization in the 50-year history of Italy's prestigious Spoleto Dance Festival to present performances by dance students. In 2009, YAGP broke the existing Guinness World Record for “Most ballet dancers en pointe” with 221 dancers from 27 countries.