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Centenary Celebrations
The
Wakefield Theatre Royal hosted the Centenary Dance
Celebration on 10th July 2004. This gave the many
schools across Yorkshire the opportunity to work
together and celebrate 100 years of the ISTD.
My
friends and I travelled four times to Leeds, from
Hull, between May and July for rehearsals. During
these rehearsals we worked alongside pupils and
teachers from other schools in the Yorkshire region.
This enabled us to see the different styles of
teaching and dancing. I took part in the Greek
dance along with a number of other girls who had
never done Greek before. We found this experience
very thrilling and it will hopefully be useful
to us in the future. It is always fun to learn
new types of dance.
On the day, each dance school thoroughly enjoyed
observing the other schools rehearsing throughout
the day. I was delighted to be able to open the
show in Alexander’s Rag Time Band. The show
consisted of many different genres of dance ranging
from Greek, song and dance and a number from Chicago.
The variety of styles made the show all the more
entertaining.
This
event gave us the opportunity to perform to an
audience which is what we all love doing. The
audience showed their appreciation through their
enthusiastic applause. Overall it was a wonderful
event to be involved in which carried a warm,
friendly atmosphere, even through the rushed changes,
which made the day even more enjoyable. We all
gained from the experience of adapting to different
ways of teaching and working in a team with people
we didn’t know.
Emma
Delanoy (16yrs)
Pupil of the Fleur Elizabeth Academy of Dance
Thank
you
I thought it was a great experience, it was wonderful
to take part in something as big and as special
as this. If I was asked to do it all over again
tomorrow I would definitely say yes. I hope I
can take part again someday. Thank you for all
the hard work the teachers put in to make it become
what it was!
Niamh
Mckigney (11yrs)
Pupil of the Christine Popple School of Dance
I
liked being in the show because I was able to
see different styles of dancing and ones that
had funky steps and the feeling of being there
was exciting.
Paige
Popple (10yrs)
Pupil of the Christine Popple School of Dance
Chairman
Fleur Stevenson and Advisor to the group Cynthia
Carr would like to thank all involved for supporting
such a fantastic event and helping to make a wonderful
show.
“An
exciting and good experience”
Francesca Horne (9yrs)
“The
show flowed well, it was very exciting, I felt
famous!”
Charlotte Murphy (11yrs)
“I
was nervous beforehand, and excited. I enjoyed
watching other dances from other schools”
Chimene Langley (11yrs)
“Good
to see the various schools showing different styles,
interesting working with dancers from other schools
in the opening,The Classical Greek and the West
End Choreographers numbers. It was excellent the
way the show fell into place when the curtain
went up”
Jayne Priestley (16yrs)
“It
was all great fun and the dances were really,
really good!”
Laura Williams (11yrs)
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| ‘Water’
in rehearsal |
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