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Japanese Tea & Biscuits
I'm having a good day today – not only because the sun is shining but because I have just been to a lovely Japanese tea morning at John Jamieson School which is a school for pupils with learning difficulties in East Leeds. A group of 12 pupils aged 16 - 19 from the school took part in the START project recently which enabled them to go to Leeds Grand Theatre to see Madame Butterfly and to take part in a dance workshop inspired by the production. Building on this, in lessons they have been...
Academy Classes for w/o 26 March & Easter opening
The last open classes before the Easter break are on Saturday 31 March and start again on the week of 16 April. CAT classes break up on Friday 30 March. Associate classes return on week of 23 April. The classes running this week are... Class Times Monday Pilates Mat 12.15 - 1.15pm Ballet 1 for ages 8+ 6 - 7pm Ballet 2 for ages 10+ 5 - 6.45pm Pre Ballet 1 for ages 6-7 4.30 - 5.15pm Pre Ballet 2 for ages 7-8 5.15 - 6pm Adult Ballet 3 - 4 7 - 8.30pm Tuesday Dancing for...
DAZL, Beauty Workshops & START ending
There were a few tears as Butterfly danced her final dance and the sound of over 500 young people clapping and cheering for the company brought a tear to my eye. I think it’s safe to say that for those whose first visit to the theatre it was will most definitely be returning! Last Thursday marked the end of the 2012 START project with the young participants joining us at Leeds Grand Theatre for the matinee performance of Madame Butterfly. [Read more of the START project on Jo Dean's blog - Ed]...
START Project 2012
Friday was a day of recovery for the Learning team as the START project came to an end for another year. On Thursday we had 550 young people (plus their teachers) watching the performance of Madame Butterfly at Leeds Grand Theatre and the atmosphere in the theatre was electric. If you've never been to the Grand Theatre before, and most of the pupils taking part in the project haven't, it is an amazing place to walk into and the ornate decoration is unlike anything the pupils have seen before....
Academy Open Classes for w/o 5 March
The classes running this week are... Class Trainer Times Monday Pilates Mat Viki Westall 12.15 - 1.15pm Ballet 1 for ages 8+ Jane Tucker 6 - 7pm Ballet 2 for ages 10+ Simon Kidd 5 - 6.45pm Pre Ballet 1 for ages 6-7 Jane Tucker 4.30 - 5.15pm Pre Ballet 2 for ages 7-8 Jane Tucker 5.15 - 6pm Tuesday Dancing for the over 55s Annemarie Donoghue 10.45 - 11.45am Intro to ballet for ages 11-15 Annemarie Donoghue 5.45 - 6.45pm Ballet 3 for ages 12+ Michael Berkin 5.15 - 6....
World Book Day
Today (a March 2012) is World Book Day and we all love a good book here at Northern Ballet towers... A year ago The Grauniad published an infographic of 117 Books Everyone Should Read – bringing together the UK’s most borrowed library books, Desert Island Discs book choices, Pulitzer Prize winners and more. We passed this infographic around the Northern Ballet ofices and asked people to tell us which they had read and here are the results... The most read three are The Chronicles of Narnia...
Beauty & the Beast Easter Course Update
As the lead artist on the Easter Course I’m getting really excited as we will be working in partnership with International Puppet Artist and Physical Theatre Performer, Rebekha Caputo. The course will involve a ballet class every morning and a variety of creative workshops in dance, physical theatre and shadow puppetry. We will be creating a dance performance with shadow puppetry as our set to perform to family and friends at the end of the week. It will be a jam packed week, full of chances...
Never a dull moment
There's never a dull moment at Northern Ballet! I spent the half term preparing for a busy couple of months ahead which includes the Easter Course at Quarry Hill in April and In Motion – a dance project for young wheelchair users. If you want to know more about the courses and projects at Northern Ballet, keep an eye on the website and you can follow my Easter Course Blog where you’ll find more information about the course including exciting news about what we’ll be doing during the week. With...
Northern Ballet at Headingly with Leeds Rhinos Ryan Hall
Ryan Hall of Championship winning Leeds Rhinos received a ballet masterclass from Northern Ballet's Antoinette Brooks-Daw and Jeremy Curnier last week. Super League TV were on hand to record the occassion... You can read more about Northern Ballet's visit to Headingly on the Super League website, and we have photos from the day. The meeting of two worlds was in aid of Northern Ballet's Sponsor a Dancer campaign.
Rugby World Champions Meet World-Class Dancers
Dancers Antoinette Brooks-Daw and Jeremy Curnier have been having some fun at Headingley Stadium today to celebrate world champions Leeds Rhinos supporting our Sponsor a Dancer campaign. Leeds Rhinos and England star Ryan Hall, man of the match in Leeds Rhino’s recent World Club Championship victory, met Antoinette and Jeremy to learn some ballet steps. It turned out that Ryan was a natural when it comes to doing lifts and soon he was not only holding up the World Club Championship trophy but...
