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HIP-HOP AT KINGSWELLS END OF TERM 4
The Tuesday hip-hop at Kingswells Webster Park taught by Miss Skene - ready to perform for their parents at the end of last term.
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OUR STUDENTS AT THE AIYF DANCE GALA - AND MAKING A NEW FRIEND!
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NEW DANCE LEADERS WHO ATTENDED OUR SUMMER COURSE
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MISS FIONA SKENE - NOW MRS FARQUHARSON!/i]
Fiona will be keeping her own name for teaching - so she will still be Miss Skene - much easier for the wee ones to say!
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[i]2010 GENEE DANCE CHALLENGE SUCCESS!!
We are delighted and very proud to announce that Harris Beattie (age 11) was one of the two winners at his level (Intermediate Foundation and Intermediate) at this new National Ballet competition held at Birmingham Royal Ballet on Saturday 31 July.
Competing against 27 other candidates from across the country, Harris obviously impressed the judge with his performance and the orginal choreography from Karen Berry.
He has won an invitation to perform his dance at Supper With The Stars (an exclusive fundraising event) and 2 tickets and expenses paid trip to London for the Genee International Ballet Competition in November.
Well done Harris!
Photos to follow...
SUMMER SCHOOL 2010
A very successful week yet again at Danscentre... Watch out for information about summer school 2011 on these pages...!! Thank you to Gary Macdonald who took the photos.
Preschool and P1
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P2 and P3
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P4 and P5
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NEW BABY!!
Congratulations to Michelle Whyte who (eventually!) gave birth to Oliver Ian Murray on 17 July. Michelle, husband John and big brother Noah are all delighted with the new addition to the Murray household and hopefully we will see him in person at Danscentre very soon - but meantime here are a couple of pictures to keep us going...
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ADULT CLASSES
The new adult class booking form is now available to download.
AISLING O SULLIVAN
Aisling O Sullivan - aged 9 with her friends from Wednesday coaching congratulating her on gaining a place at the Royal Ballet Associate Scheme in Covent Garden, London
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COMMERCIAL JAZZ WORKSHOP
Kirsty Black - a former Danscentre student and graduate of London Studio Centre held a commercial jazz workshop for our senior pupils at Danscentre this week. Kirsty has been dancing professionally for the last 5 years and we are always delighted to see her when she returns to Aberdeen.
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Kirsty is centre back.
AFTER SHOW PARTY!!
Everyone had a great time relaxing at the aftershow party last Saturday night. It was a fantastic week as you will know if you attended any of the performances.
Photos from the Lemon Tree Review are available to buy now from www.photogfx.co.uk and a DVD will be available, to those who order it, near the end of the summer.
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Jane, Gillian, Susan, Kirsteen, Maxine, Fiona
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Iona, Eilidh, Danielle, Amy
Hayley, Chelsey, Christine, Amy
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Our Senior Boys
UPDATE TO NEWSLETTER
Information regarding Highland dancing has been added to the current newsletter.
JANET CRAM AWARDS - RESULTS!!
Great news!! Congratulations to Harris Beattie who took the award for Best Boy at this prestigious competition. Entrants from all over the UK compete every year in this event with the finals being held in London. Molly Forsyth also did very well reaching the finals.
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Students past and present supporting Harris and Molly
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LEWIS AND SEAN MEET LOUIE
Senior boys, Lewis Seivwright and Sean Milner, who were in London supporting our Janet Cram entrants Molly and Harris, stayed on to take a class at Pineapple Dance Studios and met Louie Spence from the Sky programme of the same name!
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WEDDINGS! WEDDINGS! WEDDINGS!
Teachers Kim Barry and Robyn Moir are now Mrs Turner and Mrs Park respectively. Both made beautiful brides and a lovely time was had by all at their weddings - see photos below...
Also, during the holidays, Fiona Skene will become Mrs Farquharson!
All three will still be using their maidens names for teaching.
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CHARLOTTE SUMMERS BA (Hons) Dance Education, Royal Academy of Dance RTS, LRAD, ISTD - CDE
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We are delighted to introduce Miss Summers to you all - some of you will have already met her in class.
Charlotte trained at the Royal Academy of Dance in London gaining the RAD Licentiate qualifiction and graduating with honours. She is also a fully qualified teacher of the ISTD gaining her Certificate in Dance education within the Modern Theatre branch. Charlotte has taught for dance schools across Scotland including Yvonne Gray School of Dance Cupar, Morningside Dance Academy Edinburgh and most recently Academy Street Studios in Aberdeen.
We are delighted she has joined us for the remainder of the term to cover Miss Whyte s maternity leave and that she will be staying on after summer on a more permanent basis.
JANET CRAM COMPETITION
Molly Forsyth and Harris Beattie both have qualified for the finals of this very prestigious competition! These pictures were taken at the heats in Manchester. Aisling O Sullivan and Amy Park went along to support their class mates. Well done to both of them and the very best of luck at the finals in London on 13 June.
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KENNY BURKE CLASSES
Kenny Burke, ex-director of Scottish Ballet and world renowned choreographer took some classes at Danscentre on Saturday 15 May.
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MICHELLE WHYTE - BIRTHDAY
Michelle was presented in class with a lovely bouquet of flowers for her birthday. She is hiding somewhere at the back!
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MISS KIM BARRY
Kim Barry, one of our Saturday teachers at Danscentre, got married on 15 May. Below are photos from her presentation in class.
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MISS SARAH CHRISTIE
Lots of you will remember Miss Sarah Christie (Mrs Holder) who is now married to Luke.
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Danscentre teachers past and present - Laura Buchanan, Jill Graham, Sarah Christie, Michelle Whyte, Suzanne Hamilton
SCOTTISH BALLET WORKSHOP
Scottish Ballet workshop- Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Grade 6 class were treated to a work shop with Emma Jane from Scottish Ballet Education Unit. The class learned sequences from the choreography that was preformed last week on HMT stage. A fantastic opportunity and well deserved!
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JORDAN BLACKBURN
Jordan Blackburn leaves for America. The Wednesday Jazz coaching class say goodbye to Jordan Blackburn who has been a member since 3! Good luck Jordan, to you and your family -hope to see you again soon!
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CREATIVE WORK FORM THURSDAY JAZZ
Miss Auld s class were set a task in preparation for their jazz exam which takes place in June.
In class the girls made up a rhyme together to remember the ‘bounce’ exercise…………
”baby,baby,baby, big,big,big,clap, baby,baby,baby, out,in,cha,cha,cha!”
(It makes sense to us!!!!)
A handful of girls within the class made fantastic pictures at home using colourful pens and little illustrations around their rhyme.
For the effort they put in we thought it would be a nice idea to display their work on the Danscentre web.
Well done girls,
Miss Auld x
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In preparation for exams this term, Miss Auld s primary ballet class display their checklists which they use to practise at home
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STRICTLY BALLROOM
DANSCENTRE STUDENTS MEET THE STARS!
Danscentre Performance Group performed alongside Strictly Stars Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag at the Grand Re-Opening of the Beach Ballroom last weekend. The students were delighted that Anto and Erin stayed to be photographed and give autographs!
Additionally the European Champions Alex and Lisa Bellinger led a workshop at Danscentre, teaching the Argentinian Tango and Cha Cha Cha leaving our students and staff desperate to learn more! Watch out for a future workshop later this year!
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RAD BOYS-ONLY DAY - EDINBURGH
Cameron Macdonald, Dylan Smith, Harris Beattie and Oscar Reynolds all took part in this first boys-only event held by the RAD on 10 & 11 April at Dancebase in Edinburgh. Everyone was presented with a certificate
Y-DANCE SUCCESS
Congratulations to Lewis Seivwright, Keith Low, Sean Milner and Amy Robertson who all successfully auditioned for Y Dance. This is a Scottish dance initiative which takes place during the summer, with participants travelling and performing all over Scotland - look out for a show near you and go along and support them!
FEE NOTICE/ NEWSLETTER
The new Fee notice/Newsletter for term 4 is now available to download from the dancer s area login using the username and password already issued to you.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PARTIES 7 MARCH
Our P1 - P6 pupils and friends all had a great time at the High School Musical Parties - look out for more information coming soon about our Summer Holiday Parties!
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RAMBERT WORKSHOP WITH ANGELA TOWLER
Students had an excellent time at Danscentre on Sunday 28 Feb during workshops with Angela Towler (principal dancer with Rambert Dance Company and ex-student of Danscentre) and Kenny Burke (ex-director of Scottish Ballet)
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Kenny Burke centre back, Angela Towler 2nd left front row
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Kenny centre back - having fun!
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Angela centre front - share the joke!
RAMBERT WORKSHOP
Everyone enjoyed the workshop with Marie from Rambert Dance Company (performing at HMT this week).
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SCOTTISH BALLET WORKSHOP
Our Kingswells and Peterculter pupils enjoyed a workshop taken by Scottish Ballet during their recent visit to HMT
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IONA PHIMISTER - OFF TO OZ!
Iona and her family have moved to Australia this month - we wish them all the best - keep up the dancing Iona!
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ROCK CHALLENGE
One of our pupils - Shannon McDonald - performed in this competition with Westhill Academy at the AECC last Friday and they won the round! This means they are off to the finals in Grimsby in May. Well done to Shannon and Westhill Academy and good luck in May!
Some photos are not loading properly at the moment - we are trying to fix this. Hopefully we will be back to normal very soon!
RAD INTERMEDIATE BALLET RESULTS
Keith Low, Douglas Moir, Robert Noble, Stephanie Ross (not pictured below) and Lewis Seivwright achieved outstanding results in this recent exam with 4 Distinctions and a Merit between them! Lewis achieved the highest ever mark in this exam from our dance school. Well done everyone!
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Left to right: Lewis, Keith, Robert, Douglas
OFF KILTER AT HMT
Staff and Students from Danscentre thoroughly enjoyed this performance on 15th January - at the end everyone in the audience was invited to come up on to the stage for a quick ceilidh! (Do not think they expected such a high uptake!!)
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DANSCENTRE STAFF ENJOY THEIR CHRISTMAS NIGHT OUT
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Those of us who were able to attend braved the snow for a lovely meal at Dizzys.
Left to right: Anna, Ailsa, Jenny, Jill, Michelle, Ann (hiding!), Robyn, Gillian, Nic, Jane (also hiding!), Karen, Kirsteen, Fiona, Maxine, Colette and Nadine
14 DECEMBER - NEW TERM 3 NEWSLETTER NOW ONLINE
Login to dancers area with your username and password to access the latest newsletter now!
END OF TERM AT CRAIGIEBUCKLER, RUBISLAW AND KINGSWELLS
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COWDRAY HALL XMAS JAM DANCE EVENT!!
Here is a selection of photos from our Christmas Parties at the Cowdray Hall on 12 December - everyone attending had a fabby time!
P2 - P4 PARTY
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Our Dance Leaders - ready for anything!
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Christmas Angels
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Christmas Dance
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Spot Miss Whyte!
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Do we look like Reindeer?
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Boogie on down
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Please can you play.......?
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Beth Nicholson - joint winner with Lucy Harris of Best Dance Competition
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Alfie McPherson moonwalking
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Moonwalking competition finalists
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Spot Miss Skene!
P5 - P7 PARTY
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Having fun
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The hokey cokey??
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Just follow me girls....
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Surely a bit too old for ring-a roses??
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More of those reindeer
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Christmas Turkeys
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Limbo!
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Concentrating on those funky moves
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Come on - stay in time!
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Me! Me! Me!
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This has been great!
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Pals
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More pals!
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Phew! All over! Dance leaders and teachers relaxing afterwards
BEACH BALLROOM GRAND RE-OPENING
After the great success of our dancers at the Tartan Ball, we have been invited to take part in the re-opening of the Main Ballroom at the Beach Ballroom in April 2010. This will take place over 2 nights - 16th and 17th April - and be attended by Strictly Come Dancing professional dancers Anton du Beke & Erin Boag on Friday and Brian Fortuna & Kristina Rihanoff on the Saturday. This is very exciting news and it is a real priviledge to be asked to take part in such a prestigious event. More information to follow.
KENNY BURKE CLASS
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CORPORATE EVENT FOR TOTAL AT AECC
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TARTAN BALL NOVEMBER
Behind the scenes at the Tartan Ball...!
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ISHOKA PRIVATE EVENT
Our gorgeous girls bowled over the guests at this private event at the Beach Ballroom. More pics to follow!
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LORD PROVOST VARIETY SHOW
Backstage at HMT during the show and from Ashokan Farewell dance
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SHELL CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT
Senior boys from Danscentre were part of the entertainment (Fire and Ice theme) at a recent Shell corporate event in Aberdeen. Kind thanks to Mearns & Gill for the photographs.
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BON ACCORD CENTRE - MORE PICS!
Kind thanks to The Bon Accord Centre for the photos
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NUTCRACKER WORKSHOPS 1 NOVEMBER 09
Three very successful workshops, taken by Kit Dickinson from RAD London, were held at Danscentre on 1st November.
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UNION SQUARE OPENING
Danscentre students were invited to perform at the new Union Square Shopping Centre on Saturday 31 October
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HALLOWE EN AT CRAIGIEBUCKLER!!
Miss Robyn Moir invited her classes at Craigiebuckler to dress up - and a very good job they made of it!
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SCOTTISH BALLET WORKSHOP
Danscentre senior pupils thoroughly enjoyed the Scottish Ballet workshop over the October holidays with live persussion music and 2 professional dancers. After 2 hours of class leading up to learning repertoire from Scottish Ballet latest tour the pupils were both exhilarated and exhausted!
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BON ACCORD PERFORMANCE
Hopefully you all managed to get down to the Bon Accord Centre on Saturday 3 October to see Danscentre Performance Group strutting their stuff! If not - here are a couple of photos from the event...
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RAD SCOTTISH AWARDS DAY
WOW!! MORE AWARDS FOR DANSCENTRE PUPILS!!
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Pupils from Danscentre, Aisling O’Sullivan (age 8, Grade 2)and Molly Forsyth (age 10 Grade 3) triumphed at the weekend at the Royal Academy of Dance Scottish Awards in Edinburgh on 20 September.
Aisling and Molly—pictured 1st and 2nd left in front of Adjudicator Penny Withers (Ex Scottish Ballet) and RAD Scottish Chairwoman Louise Murray each won their respective categories in this competition for pupils from all over Scotland.
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All the Danscentre pupils who took part in the Scottish Awards Day with their certificates. Aisling and Molly centre and front with their trophies. Accompanied by teachers Maxine Hamilton, Gillian Auld, Jill Graham and Karen Berry.
DANSCENTRE STAFF NEVER REST!!
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Maxine Hamilton and Jill Graham showing that dancing is not their only talent!
SUCCESS FOR BOYS!
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Murray Williams And Matthew Read were both successful in gaining a place in the Scottish Ballet Junior Associate scheme this year. They will travel to Glasgow once a month for tuition. They will also be joined by Harris Beattie, Cameron Macdonald and Dylan Smith. 5 boys from Danscentre - WOW!
GRAMPIAN TRANSPORT MUSUEM FAMILY FUN DAY
On Wednesday 12th August Danscentre performed at this summer event in Alford!
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DANCE LEADERSHIP AWARD PARTICIPANTS SUMMER 09
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2009/10 HIGHER DANCE STUDENTS
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All are hoping to achieve the fantastic results of last years class who got As and Bs - well done guys!
SUMMER SCHOOL AT DANSCENTRE
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Great fun was has by all at our Summer Schools this year with birthday cake, guest tutors and participants from as far afield as Orkney!
GOOD LUCK TO IONA BROWN AND NIKKI SHAW!
Class assistants Iona Brown and Nikki Shaw are leaving the school this year to study at university. Nikki will be studying Engineering and Iona will be studying Languages in Edinburgh. Good luck to the girls and thank you for all your help with classes over the years.
JENNIFER WHYTE, AILSA DARLING AND ANDREA NEWCOMBE
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Jenny (student teacher), Ailsa and Andrea(class assistants) were all presented with flowers on their last day at Danscentre. Jenny is off to London to study for her BA (Hons) in Dance Education, Ailsa is heading for Glasgow to study Psychology and Andrea is off to Edinburgh to study to be a Primary Teacher - good luck girls!
MOULIN ROUGE COMES TO ABERDEEN!
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Senior students opened the Total/Torry Academy - Une Soirée Enchantée – Enterprise in Education evening at the Marcliffe Hotel on 26th June. Further details about this event available via the Torry Academy website www.torry.aberdeen.sch.uk. Contact Danscentre for details of our Corporate Dance Group.
MISS FIONA SKENE
Miss Fiona Skene has been awarded her CDE (Certificate in Dance Education) after a period of continuing professional development. Well done Fiona!
MISS TAYLOR PRESENTATION
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Miss Taylor was presented with flowers from everyone at Danscentre as she retires from teaching dance on medical advice. Good luck Pam with your new career!
MOVE HIGHER 2009
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Seniors students who have been studying Higher Dance for the last year entertained family and friends at Peterculter Village Hall on Sunday 14 June with dances choreographed by themselves. They have all worked tremendously hard to achieve the finished pieces and everyone present thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Also dancing were Grade 8 Ballet students and our Janet Cram soloists. For more information about Higher Dance please look under Dance Activities on the home page.
BON ACCORD CENTRE
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Students from Danscentre wowed the crowds at the Bon Accord Centre Fashion Show on Saturday 13 June
A TASTE OF GRAMPIAN -THAINSTONE
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Danscentre students were invited to perform at this prestigious event on 6th June giving 3 performances throughout the day.
GREAT NEWS - JANET CRAM AWARD WINNERS!
Dylan Smith and Cameron Macdonald both won prizes at the Janet Cram Awards in London on Sunday 24 May 09. Cameron won the Boys Cup and Dylan the Most Promising Male Dancer.
The boys, their families, friends and teachers travelled to London for this prestigious national competition in modern dance and we are all so proud of their achievment.
BLING FLING
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Dancers provided entertainment at this charity event in Aberdeen on Sunday 17 May. The Bling Fling was organised by Sonja Rasmussen who decided to raise funds for 3 local charities after being diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2008. Full details of this charity walk can be found at www.blingfling.org
