PowerHouse Ballet Newsletter May 2023

 

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Powerhouse Ballet’s Fifth Anniversary Class with Jane Tucker

Powerhouse Ballet came into being on 26 May 2018 (see We have a Company 27 May 2018 Powerhouse Ballet Website). To celebrate, we are holding a special anniversary class with Jane Tucker between 13:00 and 14:30 on Saturday 27 May 2023.  If you want to take part click here and press the orange “Book Now” button.

Review:  Northern Ballet’s “Sketches”

Author Howard Lake Licence  CC BY-SA 2.0  Source Wikimedia Commons

In Sketches six of Northern Ballet’s dancers presented short new ballets that they had choreographed.  There was also a piece by New Adventures Choreographic Award Winner Jamaal Burkmar and a screening of extracts from Northern Ballet’s film   Every Little Thing is a Change.   More

Back in Manchester

Covid and the change of management at Northern Ballet School left us without a base in the Northwest for several years. In September Katherine Wong gave us a great class at the Frances Bleadda;e School of Dancing in Bolton. Heather Boulton kindly hosted us at Ballet Contours in Salford in November.  In February we held our first class in Wales with Alicia Jelley at Elite Studios in Myndd Isa near Mold.  Last month Mark Hindley gave us a superclass at Ballet Contours.   Next month all being well we hope to work again with Karen Lester Sant one of our very favourite teachers. 

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A Possible Venue For Our First Residential Intensive

The Frân Wen is a project to convert an old church in Bangor into a community arts centre for young people in Northwest Wales. The chair of the project has suggested that it would be a good place for our first residential intensive.   As we already have strong links with Wales I am very tempted.

What I have in mind is 3 or 4 days of intensive dance training. Each day will start with floor exercises and continue with a full 90-minute class, followed by some choreography and rehearsals for an end-of-course show   As we shall be in Wales we could invite a teacher from the Welsh Folk Dance Society to give us an exhibition class.   Welsh dancing is quite unlike Scottish or English country dance as you can see from this video.   There is always a good show at the Pontio Centre and I shall try to arrange for a trip to Nant Gwrtheyrn and an introduction to the rich history and literature of Wales.

Our next residential intensive will be in York.   There we shall arrange our week to celebrate the Roman, Viking and English heritage of that great city.

There will, unfortunately, be a charge for all of this but I shall try to keep it as low as possible through grants and sponsorship.