One of the dance industry's biggest and most legendary events, Berlin's Love Parade, returned this weekend after a two year break.
Despite spin off events in other cities around the world, the Berlin Love Parade, which grew from a small rave to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall into a major global event attracting over 1.5 million people, had not been staged since 2003 after city chiefs ruled that, as the event no longer had a political dimension (as it had in the early days) that the event's promoters would have to meet security and clean up costs - a decision which made the event unviable to stage.
But after a German fitness company agreed to sponsor the event, organisers were able to resurrect the Parade. They reckon that some 1.2 million people were in attendance this weekend, up 450,000 on 2003 figures (it's a free unticketed event, so figures are always only estimated). Fans of the event now hope that the Parade will return next year too, and an announcer at this year's event reportedly told the crowds: "We'll see you all again right here, next year, at Love Parade 2007".
The BBC quoted one Berliner at the event as saying: "This is great! I've been waiting three years for this. Hopefully it will be here every year from now on."