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A total of 522,000 tuned in to watch at least 15 minutes of the double-jubilee XXVII Song and XX Dance Festival "My Fatherland is My Love" ("Minu Arm" in Estonian) on ETV, ETV2 and the Russian-language ETV+ between Thursday, July 4 and Sunday, July 7. Thousands more also watched and listened online and on the radio. Over the course of four days, ERR's many TV and radio stations broadcast the XX Dance Festival, the Song and Dance Festival parade, the Folk Music Festival and both concerts of the XXVII Dance Festival; the concert "Kannelde öö" was broadcast on the radio as well. Between Friday and Sunday, 522,000 unique persons ages four and up watched at least 15 minutes of a Song or Dance Festival broadcast.The double-jubilee Song and Dance Festival was also broadcast online and available to viewers worldwide, including thousands of diaspora Estonians scattered across the globe. ERR.ee saw more than 600,000 unique visitors during the Song and Dance Festival week, with … [Read more...] about More than half million tune in to watch Song and Dance Festival

"I saw the dance festival for the first time ever," Rosin said in an interview with ETV news broadcast "Aktuaalne kaamera" following the performance. "Not with my eyes, because they don't work, but by various other accessible means that we are developing at this dance festival."Rosin explained how audio description of the event takes place."How we made this dance festival accessible to people with visual impairments comprises of two parts," he said. "One is audio description, which means that we have two interpreters — Krista Fatkin and Zoja Triin Truumets — who have spent nights and days here at the stadium, beginning on Monday, and prior to that, weeks behind the computer, watched videos, listened to the music, and watched rehearsals. And so we describe all the patterns, all the costumes, and all of the movement, from the big patterns dancers create on the field all the way down to how the dancers' fingers are moving and what they are wearing. We have attempted … [Read more...] about Dance Festival interpreted for people with visual impairments

The opening performance of the XX Dance Festival "My Fatherland is My Love" begins at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The largest Estonian Dance Festival yet, all three performances of which sold out nearly as soon as tickets went up for sale, will see 10,500 dancers take the field to perform a total of 28 dances.The XX Dance Festival is dedicated to the 85-year dance festival tradition, with the program for each category of dancers including classic dances from previous festivals. The festival will include newer dances as well, however, with seven of the 28 dances commissioned and choreographed for this year's jubilee dance festival.The executive director of the XX Dance Festival is Vaike Rajaste; musical director Tonio Tamra; conductor Edmar Tuul; dramaturg Liis Aedmaa.Festival organizers are requesting that attendees keep a close eye on weather forecasts and dress in anticipation of changing conditions, as Tallinn has seen sun and rain alike this week. Attendees are advised to bring along a … [Read more...] about Galleries: Dancers hold final rehearsals for Dance Festival