WHAT'S ON
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dance classes
Sat 04 July
9.30am, 10.15am, 11.00am
Creative Dance
children
9.00am, 9.30am, 10.15am, 11.00am
Jazz
children
12.00pm
Youth Dance Academy
NEWS
Summer events .....
IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR
MON 3 - FRI 7 AUGUST 2009
A FUN-FILLED WEEK OF DANCE
For ages 4-11 years
plus mums, dads, older siblings ...
"Why do our kids have all the fun?" Well, not always ... Swindon Dance is offering a fantastic fun-filled week of dance for kids that mums, dads and older siblings can join in too.
Highlights include ...
Think
Disco and glitter balls, think
Lindy Hop and dance from the silver screen —
Skedaddle Dance (Zoe Humphries and Helen Ganberg) leads three days of dancing through the 30s, 40s and 70s, for ages 8-11 years
... see
education events
Morris Mayhem — Jim Brown and Steve Rouse lead a dads and lads day for boys, dads and older brothers ... jig, caper and hornpipe with a twist of funky street/Morris fusion!
... see
education events
Dance and story-telling morning — Jim Brown uses his knowledge of yoga and capoeira to special creative effect on a journey deep into the rainforest, for ages 4-7 years
... see
education events
We round off the Affair with at 2pm on Friday with performances of the all the work made during the week.
For more information on It's a Family Affair, call : +44 (0)1793 601700
ADVERTISEMENT
Swindon Dance is looking for .....
NEW BOARD MEMBERS
... to support the organisation and help in its future development.
We are looking for strategic thinkers able to contribute to effective decision making and act as ambassadors, to join our skilled committed Board, helping to ensure that we are able to meet the challenges ahead and continue our role as a leading national dance agency.
We would particularly like to hear from people with marketing/PR, legal or fundraising experience.
For more information, contact
Janice Banks, General Manager
+44 (0)1793 601708
creating, performing, teaching, learning, seeing ...
PERFORMANCES
COMMUNITY DANCE
EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ARTIST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
NEWS
Education news .....
Youth Dance Academy
AUDITIONS
Swindon and Exeter 2009
The Youth Dance Academy is looking for exceptionally talented young dancers to join its contemporary and urban programmes based at Swindon Dance, and contemporary pilot scheme in Exeter.
A U D I T I O N
NEW pilot scheme
Thurs 2 July
10.30am - 6.30pm, Exeter College
A U D I T I O N
Contemporary programme
Thurs 9 July
10.30am - 3.30pm, Swindon Dance
A U D I T I O N
Urban programme
Thurs 9 July
4.30pm - 6.30pm, Swindon Dance
For an application form, either ...
NEWS
Education news .....
PROTEIN DANCE IN RESIDENCE
+ Stratton Education Centre PRU
29th June - 17th July
We are hosting a three-week residency for Protein Dance with Year 9 and Year 10 pupils from Stratton Education Centre Pupil Referral Unit.
The students will work alongside Protein's Artistic Director Luca Silvestrini and three dance artists, including two former DansConnect dancers, to create a short performance piece. They will perform this to an invited audience on Friday 17th July at 7pm.
Among the aims of the project are the promotion ofpositive behaviour, the provision of quality creative dance experiences and encouragement of new audiences for dance. It has been made possible by funds raised by Protein from the Monument Trust, and by the Stratton Centre from Swindon Borough Council's Key Stage 4 engagement programme. Swindon Dance plays host, providing space and project management support.
This project reflects our golden thread approach, linking dance education, community dance, performance and artistic development.
Photo: Aimee Thirion
MEET ...
HELEN GANBERG
Independent dance artist Helen Ganberg is the Artistic Director of Swindon Dance associate company,
Swerve Dance Theatre Company.
Originally from Cornwall — and a hippy at heart — Helen has lived in Swindon for the last 12 years. She met her future husband, Barry, Director of Music at The Rambert School in London, while working with us at Swindon Dance. They have two children: Coby, who is 6 years old, and Lissi, 6 months.
Helen trained first at Laban in London and then at Brighton University, spending the first 3 years of her working life in a secondary school in Devon. The post of Senior Education & Access Officer was what brought her to Swindon Dance in 1996 and she held that post for 10 years.
Now independent, Helen creates and performs work for her own dance company,
Swerve, which is a Swindon Dance
associate company, and also for our
Swindon Youth Dance Company. In 1997 she received an
Alpha Associate award from us to develop her own choreographic voice and language, and went on to create
mySpace — a duet, most-recently performed at The Big Chill Festival at Eastnor Castle.
Her teaching posts include Team Leader for The Wiltshire and Swindon LDA, for the professional development of primary-based school teachers in the county, and work with Swindon Dance's
Youth Dance Academy.
Helen has teamed up with dance artist Zoe Humphries, another ex-Swindon Dance Education & Access Officer, to co-direct
Skedaddle Dance, an organisation that provides creative dance activities for young people and children.
In her spare time, which she finds hards to find, Helen enjoys drinking cups of tea and playing on Nintendo Wii. She is a keen mosaicist, creating pieces with primary school children for playgrounds in and around Swindon, as well as undertaking commissions for friends. Helen is a qualified Integral Yoga Teacher and enjoys introducing children to the benefits of yoga.
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