If you have been preparing a solo or group dance for the dance production, the auditions to show your finished piece are on: Tuesday 12th January. Remember: All dancers must be from the same yearContinue reading
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The Greatest Dancer
Huge congratulations to Grace (Year 10) who, together with her dance school Vale, is down to the final 10 acts on BBC1s The Greatest Dancer. Please keep watching and supporting, Saturday nights on BBC1. GoodContinue reading
Chicago
Our whole school musical will be Chicago in July 2020. Students in Years 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 are invited to participate. You will need to be free to rehearse every Tuesday after school 3:30-4:45pmContinue reading
Grace on BBC’s The Greatest Dancer
Grace S (Year 10) performed an amazing dance on The Greatest Dancer on Saturday evening with her dance school, Vale. Here is the link to their dance in case you missed it: What an outstandingContinue reading
Silver Dance Company 2019
Here is our Silver (Ag) Dance Company 2019-20. Rehearsing weekly, they will represent the school at performances and competitions. Well done dancers.
Grace’s Dance World Cup success
Grace S (8-3) has had enormous success at the Dance World Cup. She won a place to represent the country at the national competition, and was selected to travel to the World Dance Cup FinalsContinue reading
Site-sensitive dance on the Devisdale
Year 10 GCSE Dance students have been creating their own versions of ‘Within Her Eyes’ by James Cousins. This is a professional dance from the GCSE Dance anthology. It is a site-sensitive dance for camera,Continue reading
Oliver! Dance rehearsals
Monday: food glorious food Tuesday: Oom pah pah Wednesday: be back soon Thursday: consider yourself Friday: who will buy? All dance rehearsals are 12:30-1pm in the drama studio.
BFET Arts Day
Our very first BET Arts Day was a great success! The day took place at z-arts and allowed students from all of our BFET schools to come together to participate in workshops in the Arts.Continue reading
Sprung!
Congratulations to all the dancers who performed in SPRUNG. All GCSE students showed their stunning practical work; including performance duets, choreographies and set phrases. The evening was an opportunity for friends and family to seeContinue reading
Dance workshop with the Centre for Advanced Training in Dance (CAT)
On Monday, Year 9 and Year 10 dancers participated in a dance workshop with Lyndsey Thomas from the Centre for Advanced Training at the Lowry. Dancers took part in a 3 hour contemporary dance techniqueContinue reading
E of E on TV this weekend!
Emancipation of Expressionism by Boy Blue Entertainment is on BBC2 this Saturday at 10pm. It is one of the works studied in the GCSE Dance anthology. Don’t miss this brilliant street dance!
Extra rehearsals
Extra rehearsals to prepare for the Dance Production: Meet in the Gym and bring your full costumes with you.
Return your reply slips by Friday!
Dancers, don’t forget to return your reply slips before Friday. You can post them in the post-box outside the PE office, or leave them at reception. There are spare letters outside the PE Office inContinue reading
Auditions for solo / group dances
Anyone wishing to create a solo or group dance for the Dance Production must attend the audition on Thursday 23rd November after school. For the audition we would like to see: At least a minuteContinue reading
Grace on CBBC’s Taking the Next Step
Have any of you spotted Grace (8-3) in the CBBC show Taking the Next Step?! Grace successfully auditioned to appear on the show, which is a competition to win a guest role in the showContinue reading
Sunday morning and home time
This morning, dancers have learnt the set phrase ‘shift’ and created performance pieces using the poem ‘I am meth’ as a stimulus. We are so impressed with how hard all of them have worked thisContinue reading
Saturday night…
Year 10 had choreography workshops right up till 9pm last night! They created dances based on 3 action words. Then the evening entertainment was….MORE dancing at the disco!
Saturday Dance residential
Year 10 have had a very busy day participating in workshops with Boy Blue and creating dances in the style of A Linha Curva and Artificial Things. They have also learnt the set phrase ‘Flux’.Continue reading
Flux workshop
This morning, Group 2 have been working really hard learning the set phrase ‘Flux’.