YOUNG filmmakers will be capturing all the action at an annual dance festival.

This year's Darlington Dance Festival takes place on July 16 and 17, including professional and amateur dancers of all types and abilities.

Based on the theme of Hollywood and Broadway, it will showcase dance students and professional acts, and give people who have never danced the chance to try something new.

Members of Darlington Borough Council's youth service rE-view project will also film the event to create a mini movie to be uploaded onto the internet.

rE-view is a project, supported by The Northern Echo, which aims to get young people to use the latest technologyto share their views and opinions on a range of subjects.

The highlight of the dance festival is a mass dance on Sunday, July 17, when more than 600 people are expected to perform a routine in the market place at 10.30am, choreographed by dance instructor Darrien Wright, who won Strictly Dance Fever in 2006.

Workshops are being held around the borough to teach community groups the routine, and the young filmmakers have been on hand to capture the experience.

Mr Wright said: "I am delighted that these young filmmakers will be recording the dance festival and have already been hard at work capturing what is happening in the community workshops."