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East Hampshire. The children will learn traditional maypole dances and perform at local events. Poppy trained at the Royal Ballet School and has been running maypole sessions with Alton Maypole Dancers, after learning from Mike Ruff at Cecil Sharp House...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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for the learning and participation programme, including the National Youth Folk Ensemble. Professional journey Diploma in Ballet and Theatre Dance, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. MA Dance Education and Theatre (Work-based Learning),...
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- Author: Sammie Squire
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Tiffany Horehttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=13940:library-and-archives-director&catid=78
When not at work Playing the flute in orchestras, singing, running, doing art, horse-riding, going to exhibitions/opera/ballet/theatre, making jewellery, cross-country skiing, going to the gym Email [email protected] Works on Monday to Friday, 9.30am -...
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Alexeen Fernandezhttps://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=14895:alexeen-fernandez&catid=78
Gallery. When not at work At the art studio either creating oil paintings or teaching art. Obsessed with K-dramas, anime, ballet and musical theatre. Email [email protected] Works on Monday to Friday, 9.30am - 5.30pm
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not for gloryhttps://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/16027-not-for-glory-2026
Tuesday 13 October 2026, 7:30pmGallaí in Ériu Dance Company. This sparked a curiosity about new ways of moving, leading him to train at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. After more than a decade away, he returned to Irish dance through the development of not for glory....- Type: Article
- Author: Box Office
- Category: Gigs
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magnate on the board of the Royal Opera House, Sir Arthur Bryant the historian and Dame Margot Fonteyn-Arias, the renowned ballet dancer. The Fund, whose overall object was ‘to provide repair maintain or preserve books or recordings and recording...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Jim Causley and Simon Pope to encourage an abundant crop of our Cecil Sharp House apples later in the year. We welcome back Ballet Folk with their new dance show The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth with live music from Ciderhouse Rebellion. House favourites...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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Conference Report 2020 https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/10157-conference-report-2020-2
this year has done one thing, it has been to make my home life more international. Instead of catching the tube to ballet class, I have offset the difficulties of dancing round my furniture by taking class with a New York City Ballet principal on...
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- Author: Matt Reed
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with many chamber choirs, made several recordings and appeared in the odd opera. As far as dance is concerned, I do ballet regularly, something I took up again as an adult who loved the artform, after halting attempts as a child. In my head I am a...
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- Author: EFDSS Editor
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he became a strong supporter of the English Folk Dance Society and taught at a number of their summer schools. His choral ballet The Morning of the Year introduced traditional English dances under the direction of co-producer Douglas Kennedy, and was...
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- Author: intern
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illustration: Fanny Cerrito and Mlle Camille dancing ‘Varsovienne’ (lithograph, J. Brandard, 1842). Courtesy of the Royal Ballet School Special Collections. Editor: David Atkinson Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe: Varsoviana audio files FIGURE 1 ‘The...
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remit – wider than they did for opera. Yes, they would go behind the scenes of rehearsal and creative processes for ballet and other ‘high art’ dance forms, but they particularly wanted to emphasise something that everyone could get involved in. EFDSS...
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Ron Smedley at 90https://www.efdss.org/about-us/what-we-do/news/10356-ron-smedley-at-90
former EFDSS president Ninette de Valois had approached Douglas Kennedy to provide teachers of folk dance for the Royal Ballet School, known then as the Sandler’s Wells Ballet. She was a firm believer in its key elements of rhythm and togetherness and...
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