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On Sunday 30th October 2016 100 of our Performers College students performed pre-match entertainment at Wembley Stadium for the opening of the NFL International Series between the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals. Mass Movement, are a London based dance production agency who create spectacular ceremonial pre match entertainment for huge sporting events and we were delighted they invited us to take part. The timing of the event was so close to Remembrance Sunday and the selling/wearing of poppies that Creative Director, Christian Storm created a beautiful tribute to honour the fallen entitled ‘In Flanders Fields’. The dancers were dressed from head to toe in white and held very large pop-up poppies, beginning the routine in strategically place straight lines which resembled white gravestones. It was a fantastic routine and the stadium erupted at the end and all the dancers were ‘buzzing’ from the atmosphere. The whole event could be seen on Sky Sports 3 and some of the students were even interviewed by Fox News! Many thanks to all our students who gave up 4 days of their free time during half term to rehearse and our member of staff Jo Stonebrook for her brilliant organisation skills, arranging costume fittings and chaperoning them to the event. Mass Movement will also be using our students again for the FA Cup Final in 2017 which we are very excited Four tutors from Performers College recently visited Read Dance & Theatre College in Reading and Miskin Theatre North Kent College to talk to prospective students through the audition process, to help calm nerves and give them an idea what is expected of them on an audition day at Performers College. They also take a class to make it more fun and set the scene! Eileen Thorogood took the ballet class and Keeley East the Jazz class at Read College. In Kent at Miskin Vanessa Leagh Hicks advised on singing audition technique and Keeley took a Jazz class. We are really looking forward to auditioning these students over the next few months. Our elected Student Reps for 2016-2017 are: Year 1: Samuel Cornick & Lindsay Woodman Year 2 MT: Akeem Hyman & Isabelle Hetherington Year 2 DT: Georgie Cox & Mitchel Eley Year 3 MT: Tom Mann & Rhian Gill Year 3 DT: Helayna Liviero & Ben Rutter They will be representing Performers College at various events throughout the coming year.
In August 2016, the ISTD (The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) visited dance schools in Hanoi and Ho Che Min cities in Vietnam as part of a Cultural Exchange Workshop. This was a new initiative enabling all participants to appreciate additional skills, while promoting the ISTD’s work regarding safe teaching, sound techniques and of course, appreciation of dance. The programme delivered an exciting experience, exchanging international and local performing arts cultures while enhancing dance knowledge and techniques. They were taught by ISTD qualified professionals, in genres ranging from ballet, Commercial Hip-Hop, Modern and Jazz to Dancesport. Over one week, ISTD Chair, Sue Passmore, and ISTD Chief Executive, Hassan Khan, were joined by teachers, students and demonstrators at the SOUL Music & Performing Arts Academy and the Military University of Culture and Arts in Hanoi to present the “ISTD Dance Experience Tour” in collaboration with Vietnam Music & Arts Education (VMA Education). The VMA Education’s mission is to promote and develop curriculum and certifications from music and arts educational institutions and publishers, to educational providers in Vietnam. We were delighted to be involved in this project and joining them in Vietnam were Performers College tutor Keeley East and our students Ben Rutter, Kiki D’Marni, Amira Kendal and Will Trafford. They had a showcase of routines to perform for the participants including a Jive featuring all four of them choreographed by Emma Rogers as well as a Contemporary Modern duet for Ben & Kiki to ‘Just the Way You Are’ choreographed by Performers College Principal Tracey Lee, both specifically for this event. They taught a variety of dance genres to ages ranging from little ones of 3 to adults up to 23 years old and at the end of each day they demonstrated what they had learnt to a small audience. On the last day there was a little time for sightseeing and culture before the long flight home. It was an amazing experience for them all and a very successful and worthwhile trip. Well done guys! Ben & Keeley teaching a class Happy dancers, organisers & teachers!
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