shawbrook.org - Dance Courses & Classes

Ballet Classes
Sept 2010 to Jan 2011
Starting Momday 13th Sept.

Mondays:
5pm.         Inter foundation. April Exam
6.30pm.    Intermediate        April Exam
8pm.         Grade 6        29th Nov. Exam

Tuesdays;
4.30pm      Preprimary    29th Nov   Pres.
5.30pm      Primary         29th Nov   Pres.
6.30pm      Grade 2        Feb. Pres
7.30pm      Grade 3        29th Nov Exam

Wednesdays:
4.30pm      Grade 1      Feb. Pres.
5.30pm      Grade 4      Feb. Exam & Pres
6.30pm      Grade 5      Feb. Exam & Pres

Thursdays:
Double Exam classes from 16th Sept.
6.30pm      Grade 3
7.30pm      Grade 6
'Double ' Presentation classes from 4th Nov.
4.30pm     Pre primary
5.30pm     Primary

Fridays:
5.30pm       Grade 8 ( Exams depending on age, school year)
6.30pm       Advanced Foundation
8.00pm       Advance 1

Courses and Master Classes
2009
Transitions, Scottish Dance, Diversions, Cois Ceim, Lee Clayden, Chantal McCarmick, Tanja, Eleesha Drennan, Olivia Pickford, Stuart Beckett, Maria Pedreiro, Ismael Lorenzo, Deborah Lamb, Michael Martin Dolan

Shawbrook Youth Dance 2011
Auditions
Sat. 18th December 2010 at Shawbrook.

26th Shawbrook Summer School

Summer school calendar 2010
(contact Shawbrook for age limits of each week)

1st week: 4 -10 July

2nd week:11 - 17 July

3rd week: 18 - 24 July

4th week: 25 July-31st July

Week long residential dance courses providing classes in Ballet, Jazz, Aerial, Contemporary, Choreography, Theatre Craft with a performance in Shawbrook theatre twice a week. From age 10.

Shawbrook Course E

Week-long residential course for full time dance students and professional dance artists.

This course serves as an introduction to dance theatre practice. In this week long workshop, students will engage in an interrogation of this interdisciplinary art form through practical experimentation. Workshops with director and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan (Artistic Director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and Associate Artist of the Barbican Centre, London) Philip Feeney, internationally acclaimed composer and Rachel Poirier, performer with Fabulous Beast, provide the opportunity to work with leading practitioners in the field.

It will run from the 1st to the 8th of August.
For information on how to apply for the course which is fully Arts Council funded please contact Anica Louw at shawbrook01@gmail.com

Past Course E choreographers include:

Sonia Rafferty

Chris Morgan

Michael Keegan Dolan

Paul Estabrook

Cathy Sharp
Keith Derrick Randoph
Dominique Cardito

Master Classes: The first weekend after Easter dance master-classes are given by international dance teachers/mentors to students of vocational and professional standard in ballet/jazz/contemporary dance .

Previous Master-class mentors:

Sharon Donaldson( Phoenix)

Dollie Henry

Eric Carpenter ( Northern Ballet)

Niall McMahon (English Contempoaray Ballet)

Paul Bayes Kitcher( Birmingham Ballet)

Lorena Randi( Michael Clarke)

Ann Martin ( Conservatoire, Lyon)

Sarah Reynolds ( NDT1)

Sara Lourenzo ( The Hague)

Jean Nuckey ( RAD vocational examiner)

Fiona Chadwick( Royal Ballet)

Wendy Greene RAD vocational Examiner)
Michael Keegan Dolan ( Fab Beast)
Michael Martin Dolan (Fab Beast)
Olivia Pickford (London Children Ballet)
Errol Pickford (Elmhurst)
Deborah Lamb (ISTD examiner)

Course E 2010

                                   Christina Reeves
                                   Teaching Week   3
Shawbrook Summer School 2010

Eleesha Drennan a dancer with National Dance Company Wales(Diversions) giving a workshop at Shawbrook March 2010

Maria Hayday a dancer with National Dance Company Wales(Diversions) giving a workshop at Shawbrook March 2010

Course E 2006 with Michael Keegan Dolan on the stage of Backstage Theatre Longford