U.Dance
As part of U.Dance 2012 East Youth Dance hosted a regional dance performance on Saturday 17 March 2012 in Cambridgeshire.
Eight dance groups from the East of England were chosen to take part;
- Bedfordshire Youth Dance Company (Bedfordshire)
- Big Sky Dance (Norfolk)
- Hertfordshire Youth Dance Company: InPulse (Hertfordshire)
- Impington Youth Dance (Cambridgeshire)
- SCAMBS (Cambridgeshire)
- St. Bernard's Dance Company (Essex)
- Suffolk Youth Dance Company (Suffolk)
- Venom (Cambridgeshire)
A review of the performance is avaliable here, including images of all the groups who took part.
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YDE is launching the U.Dance Ensemble with Hofesh Shechter
The U.Dance Ensemble will be the first youth dance company of its kind with young dancers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland between the ages of 16 and 21 years.
Shechter won the Critic’s Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography (modern) in 2008 and has produced work across the globe, with his latest work Political Mother receiving world-wide acclaim in 2010. He has created work for the three major dance venues in London – The Place, Southbank Centre and Sadler’s Wells, as well as being commissioned by numerous dance organisations in the UK and internationally. Shechter also choreographed the hit dance sequence Maxxie’s Dance for the opening of the second series of Channel 4’s popular drama Skins. He is an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells and Hofesh Shechter Company is Resident Company at Brighton Dome.
Hofesh Shechter will work with the Ensemble to produce a performance for U.Dance 2012. He will lead the group in three residentials in the lead up to the main event in July 2012.
The Ensemble is due to tour the UK over the summer 2012 following its premiere performance at Southbank Centre.
Apply now to be part of the U.Dance Ensemble.
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About U.Dance
U.Dance is the national performance framework that aims to give every child and young person in England the opportunity to take part in a dance performance each year.
The programme includes a vast range of dance performances from primary school dance performances that bring together children from across a family of schools, to the national dance performance for hundreds of young people!
Whether you are a young person, teacher, dance practitioner or an arts or youth worker, U.Dance is here to help guide and inspire dance performance at all levels across the country.
Find out more at www.u-dance.org
