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Last week, our Dance students from Y7 to Y11 took part in a impressive event called 'Dance Live!' at The Wycombe Swan Theatre. The organisers, Dance Live Portsmouth presented our students a Creative award for their LED screen content and the Fellowship Award.

Mrs Duckham said "Such a great day…dancing, performing, teamwork and nerves! Well done dancers! You are all wonderful!"

We look forward to returning in 2025!

 

'Dance Live! challenges schools to embrace today’s digital culture by creating a performance piece which is largely dance based. We want schools to be highly creative, developing an original piece of work using video and sound on a large LED screen. The work should have a strong narrative or theme, which interacts with the digital content.

 

Today’s dance and musical theatre practitioners challenge themselves to push boundaries, whether that’s the re-staging of a classic musical like ‘An American in Paris’ in London’s West End, new dance presented by Sadlers Wells or touring ballet by companies like Northern Ballet. Dance Live! is therefore much more than just the performers, it relies heavily on how the choreography and direction works with the digital element. We hope a wide range of skills will be utilised to create the work and we want to see the teamwork involved in putting the performance together, demonstrated through a 2-minute introductory film.

Children and young people from primary and secondary schools right up to sixth form/college can enter, from ages 7-18. Primary schools will enter the Junior competition and senior schools and colleges the Senior competition.