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| 27/28 May 2007 |
Once again we have an exciting afternoon of dance in the Kennet Centre. From the very young to the more mature, beginners to outstanding professionals and dance from hip hop to traditional. Contemporary dance to the musicals; ballet, belly dancers and Bollywood. Dancing at the Shops has got the lot!
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Two groups want you to join in. Bring along babies and young children to take part in the stimulating Monkey Music. For those who have enjoyed dance from the audience perhaps the dance exercise class is for you. Full instruction given - take part and enjoy.
We have a large number of incredibly talented dancers, come and enjoy this afternoon of sheer pleasure in movement - all for free!
Sponsored by Munchies and juSBar Ltd.
Click on the group's name above for more details, or scroll down to view full details of the programme.
NB This programme will be subject to change, and timings are approximate, please check regularly for the latest details.
Behind every event is a dedicated team without whom it just would not happen. The Fringe committee are extremely grateful not only to the dedicated teachers who prepare and bring along groups for the event but also to those whose skills and technical expertise makes for a safe and well run event. Our principal team members are, on the technical side :- Chris Wicks, Phil Hallam and Tim Allen and chief steward Julia Hallam.
Monkey Music
Monkey Music introduces music and movement to very young children in a way they can understand and enjoy. They learn social and musical skills in a fun, stimulating, musical environment amongst their friends.
Throughout a 30 minute class, the teachers engage the attention of the children and their carers using catchy music, percussion instruments, visual props and boundless energy.
Come and join Monkey at the Fringe to experience a Monkey Music session - everyone welcome! Monkey Music in Berkshire operates in Newbury, Hungerford and Thatcham under the guidance of Carol Hultmark and teachers Val Stephenson, Lucy Tyler and Sally Beach. To learn more call 01635 872639 email: carol.hultmark@monkey music.co.uk.
Cannons Exhibition Dance Team
In their first appearance at The Fringe the team will present a funky dance exercise programme and they would like you to join in with them.
This will be a demo of a class that we teach at the club 3 times a week on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays. The class in its entirety is a mix of Hip Hop, Funk, Latin, Salsa, and Disco/Old School Tracks.
Dawn Howell has been teaching these classes for the last 4 years, and the popularity has grown and grown, mainly because exercise is not the first thing on our minds! The most important thing is that we have great fun, and forget about our day to day worries for an hour. The fact that it's a fantastic calorie burn is almost secondary.
The Italia Conti Associate School
The Italia Conti Academy founded in 1911 is Britain's oldest theatre arts established training school. The Academy's reputation is renowned throughout the World, and the request for training it offers outstretched the commuting practicalities of just a London based centre.
Demand resulted in the Academy opening part-time associate schools throughout the country, Newbury being the most recent. Based at St Gabriel's School, Newbury, we are delighted to use their excellent facilities to run our Saturday classes.
A selection of numbers to include Musical Production, Jazz and Par de Deux will be performed starting with our younger Associate members and finishing with our Graduates from the Academy.
Reading Hindu Temple Dancers
The Reading Hindu Temple Dancers are children of age group 10-14 years and they will perform dances from Hindi films (Bollywood Films) from India.
Trinity School & Performing Arts College
Our Dance Company has gone from strength to strength over the past couple of years and recently won 'Best Choreography' in the prestigious Global Rock Challenge competition. We have three dance groups, our Trinity Dance Company, the Apprentice Company and our Gifted and Talented Sponsorship Dancers.
Dance provides a positive vehicle to build self esteem, boost confidence and strengthen resilience. By participating in Dance our students learn to become excellent team players - and have fun!
At this year's Fringe Festival the Trinity Dance Company will perform a set of traditional English dances, we hope you enjoy our performance.
Anuradha Chaturvedi
Kathak- The north Indian classical dance form originates from the ancient art of storytelling of temples. It is captivating, graceful and agile. Its fast paced foot work executing intricate rhythm patterns, its strong emotive aspect and its controlled bodylines make for an enchanting view.
Anuradha presents the unique component of Kathak from Lucknow region of India Tarana dance rendition on melodious vocalisation of mnemonic sounds with sufi theme, an expression of the communion of soul to its beloved, the almighty.
Newbury and District Caledonian Society
Newbury and District Caledonian Society team will perform a selection of Scottish Country Dances from the Society's regular repertoire for spectators to watch.
Scottish Country Dancing is the perfect way to leave the stresses of the working week behind so why not come and spend Friday evenings dancing with us? It is recognised as an excellent form of exercise for both mind and body, and is much more enjoyable than going to the gym. It is a very social form of dancing so it is a good opportunity to meet lots of new people.
Newbury and District Caledonian Society is an amateur group affiliated to the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, www.rscds.org, whose primary objective is Scottish Country Dancing. We meet at Highclere Village Hall on Friday nights between September and May to dance to recorded music from 8pm - 10pm. There are regular party nights throughout the season when there is a more formal evening's dancing combined with a meal. There is also an Annual Ball with dancing to a live band at St George's Wash Common, to which members of other clubs are invited.
The Society welcomes prospective new members at any time, whether experienced or beginner, and at a cost of around £35 for a year it is very good value for money. All you need is a pair of soft flat shoes.
There are clubs all over the country and overseas, including several within easy reach of Newbury, so if you have the energy and inclination it is possible to dance most nights of the week. Every group organises regular parties or balls, giving the men a chance to don their kilts and ladies their fine frocks and put into practice what has been learned in class.
For more information, e-mail NewburyCaledonian@btinternet.com
Jawahir
Jawahir ( Diamonds) are a group of Bracknell based Bellydancers, whose members range from Schoolgirls to Grandmothers.
For the Fringe we are showcasing our skills with props and will be dancing to a medley of music mainly from Turkey and Egypt. We meet every week and welcome a range of abilities. Our Influences range from Traditional styles to modern cabaret and fusion.
Newbury Contemporary Dance Company
A presentation of new work from our Apprentice Youth Company and Children's class. Two contrasting pieces which demonstrate the diversity of contemporary dance from stylized movement to upbeat Jazzy combinations.
Programme:
Warm up - NCDSchool
Creative Contemporary Children's class (ages 9-12) - Don't feel like dancin!
ncYdc - Apprentice Youth Company -Courtly Gestures
Kennet School
Dance is a thriving and important part of the curriculum at Kennet School and we are delighted once again to be involved in this year's Fringe Festival event.
Our contribution this year will be a selection of items from our yearly dance show 'Carnaval de Danse' held within school on 25th to 27th April 2007. The exact items to be selected for the Fringe event will be decided during rehearsals for the School dance show.
We will present a collection of pieces which showcase the variety of dance work within school including the dance clubs, the audition only groups and some of the GCSE examination dance work. Kennet School are once again looking forward to an exciting and colourful afternoon of community dance within the Kennet Centre.
Layali Masrea
Layali Masrea means Egyptian Nights and Layali Masrea the dance group are a group of women who perform Egyptian style belly dance. They are led by their teacher and main choreographer Judi Linley and will be performing a variety of different dance styles from Egypt from classic oriental pieces, folkloric style to modern Egyptian pop. They perform at Haflas (belly dance parties), community events and some private functions.
Judi has been performing and teaching Egyptian dance for many years and used to dance regularly in Lebanese restaurants and at Arab weddings and worked on community dance projects and events in South Wales. She has a diploma from the JWAAD (the Josephine Wise Academy of Arabic Dance) and regularly studies with master teachers from the UK and abroad.
Belly Dance is a gentle low impact form of dance which besides being graceful, expressive and good fun is really good for improving flexibility and posture and is suitable for women of all ages.
If you are interested in joining a class in Newbury, arranging a workshop or asking Layali Masrea to perform at an event or just want to find out more about belly dance contact Judi on (01635) 38396.
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy Logic is a high impact, explosive male youth dance company. Today you will be seeing a duet from their repertoire called chaos.
The all-male company from Hedge End, Hampshire, were one of the 11 out of 90 groups selected by the National Youth Dance Festival last year. They attended an intensive week of workshops and preparation for the festival's performances, held on 21 July at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, to a packed audience.
For more info contact Zoie Golding zo_ie@hotmail.co.uk.
Dance in the Park
A community dance programme run by ACE Dance Company members, Laura Kelleher, Helen Bonner and Lisa Doole for young people from the age of 5 - 18 years and is currently based at Park House School.
Each group gets the opportunity to learn a variety of different dance styles including, contemporary, jazz, African and street plus much more. The dancers are invited to perform at the The Fringe as well as the Dance in the Park annual sharing which takes place in July.
A small sharing by each of the classes. A mini class from the youngest group, then a mixed performance of dance styles including hip hop comtemporary and jazz.
West Berkshire Youth Dance Company
The two youth companies, Junior and Senior, were first established in 2000 by Sue Llewellyn, Head of Dance at Park House School and are funded by the Sports College at the school.
The companies are comprised of students from schools across Berkshire and aim to provide professional training for gifted and talented young people in the area.
Many ex company members have gone on to pursue a career in professional dance and are currently studying at Rambert, Laban, The Place - all in London; plus many more.
Two pieces will be performed by these two huge youth companies - one jazz number and a hip hop piece that will blow you away!
ACE Dance Company
ACE was first established in 2003 and is also based at Park House School.
They are a semi professional dance company who work as an ensemble to create their own repertoire as well as commissioning pieces from professional dancers from companies such as MotionHouse, Biserk and Henri Oguike. Ex company members are now studying at Italia Conti, The London School of Contemporary dance, Roehampton University, Laban and Rambert.
They will perform a fast paced dynamic performance of contemporary dance – stand back and enjoy the ride!
Femme Fatale
Femme fatale are a Reading based Hip Hop Company who have been together for eighteen months - the group consists of six very strong dancers - Kat, K*Lee, Libby, Yasmin, Kate and Hannah, who came together meeting within Reading's own street/hip hop dance company, Strictly Street. They compete nationally and are soon to be performing as part of "Breakin’ Convention ‘07".
Ages ranging from 19 to 25, Femme Fatale decided to form after competing in the World Hip Hop Championships in May 2006 within the mixed crew Myxology, and later competed in numerous UDO Street dance competitions as Femme Fatale.
By using a unique contemporary style of hip hop, and combining each individual dancer's strengths, the girls went on to come first in the Southern Street Dance Championships open division with UDO. From standing out within this competition, they were then asked to enter the closed Professional division in the World Street Dance Championships in Blackpool later in August 2006. With stiff competition, Femme Fatale came in second place and have since performed in local clubs around Reading, being offered further performance gigs in Birmingham and Blackpool.
Three members of the crew were chosen as backing dancers for the famous THRILLER dance alongside Chris Brown at the World Music awards back in November 2006. They had the oppertunity of meeting dance legend Michael Jackson and working with some of London's most talented dancers. Yasmin now, is currently on the 'Thriller' tour alongside Jeffrey Daniel....who invented the moonwalk and taught Michael Jackson himself, to dance.
Four of the six crew members teach their own styles within classes around Charvil, Reading, Tilehurst, Lower Early, Woodley and Wokingham, another member is a professional gymnastics coach with Bulmershe Gym, and another member is also a new addition to the South West London crew Lethal Injection.
Right now, Femme Fatale are currently working on a new set to start showcasing in June. They'll be performing at the Breakin' Convention at the Wycombe Swan this month.
Berkshire Youth Dance Company
Berkshire Youth Dance Company (BYDC) will be performing 3 pieces from their current repertoire: Their latest Hip Hop piece choreographed by Luke Brown, Virtuality; a quirky Contemporary piece choreographed by Rachael Mossom (x-Henri Oguike, X-Factor) and Footloose; a fun piece which the Company choreographed together.
The Company has been running for 20 years, however this is the first year of the company being youth led. All of the current 10 company members take an important role in the running of the company, carrying out all organisation and rehearsing of the group. The company rehearse every other Sunday from 11 - 3 at Theale Green Community School and Wellington College Sports Club.
BYDC have just been accepted into this year's National Youth Dance Festival taking place in Manchester between the 6th and 11th July. In order to go they need to raise £3000. If you would like to support the company, or would like any more information regarding the company please contact Lisa Doole (07916 254652) or James Cousins (07944361395).
