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Carl
Alan Award Winners - Citations
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Teachers
Award
Paul Streatfield |
Paul
is a Principal and teacher in a large, active and successful
school, regularly entering pupils for ISTD medal tests and
competitions, both in-house and on the open circuit.
He
organises, compères and promotes Freestyle competitions,
both ISTD and open championships such as the Imperial Open
Disco Freestyle Championships which in previous years has
also included a children’s workshop. Paul is a
popular and frequent lecturer at ISTD events and also for
other examining bodies.
Paul
has been an ISTD Examiner for over seven years and is a founder
member of the Disco/Freestyle/Rock ‘n’ Roll Faculty
Committee on which he still serves. He is also Chairman of
the Country Western Sub-Committee, which organises regular
workshops, seminars and festivals for both amateur and professional
dancers.
Paul
has supplied dancers for several promotional films and many
of his pupils have progressed to professional dance work or
taken professional qualifications. Paul is also in demand
to train professionals.
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Special
Award for
A lifetime’s Service to Dance
Jean Cantell |
Throughout
over 51 years of teaching dance as a full time profession
and running her own studio, Jean’s experience has been
varied. She has trained both amateur and professional
dancers and travelled to teach at numerous schools, colleges
and adult education establishments.
Jean’s
pupils have benefited from her qualifications in many disciplines
but her work is particularly well known in the Freestyle world,
her pupils achieving considerable success in ISTD Medallist
and Open Freestyle competitions in Solo, Pairs and also Team
events.
Jean
has been a Disco Freestyle Fellow and Examiner of the ISTD
for ten years and served on the DFR Faculty Committee of the
ISTD for eleven years, mainy as Vice Chairman.
As
an early member of the committee Jean played a considerable
part in establishing the new Faculty and its work to create
a structured syllabus for amateurs and a graduated training
programme for professionals to promote a safe dance technique
allowing dancers to be versatile and able to adapt to the
latest trends in music and dance.
She
is proud to have laid the foundations of a network of thirteen
ISTD Medallist competitions and in particular to have introduced
the Set Line Dance event, which has gone from strength to
strength culminating in a Grand Finals Day, attracting over
1,500 people. Over the years the increase in its popularity
has helped to raise the standard of Freestyle dance and the
demand for medal tests. For many years Jean has been an organiser
of two annual ISTD Area Medallist competitions.
In
the formative years, Jean’s efforts to develop Disco
Freestyle were at Open competition level through her committee
work for Southern Area ADFP. Not surprisingly, with all
this experience Jean has lectured on Freestyle for all the
leading British dance organisations and also adjudicated at
Medallist, Open competitions and championships.
Jean’s
services to dance also extend to Line and Country Western
Dance, the third discipline of the Faculty, and she now serves
on the Country Western Sub-Committee. Jean has been the creator
of the ISTD professional examination structure and the amateur
medal test syllabus. She has organised professional courses
and workshops to support teachers in the early days when little
information was available and still plays a large part in
running two professional workshops and an amateur festival
each year.
Jean
has worked hard since the start of Disco Freestyle in 1977
to promote and develop this dance form, firmly believing that
many potential dancers discover the world of dance through
this door. Jean passes on her enthusiasm and encouragement
to her pupils, knowing that based on strong dance technique,
Freestyle dancers with their exuberance, rhythmical expression
and terrific vitality are well equipped to train for dance
performance or teaching careers.
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