Category Archive: dance education

Rhea Sheedy during a ballet fusion class. Her right arm is on the barre, her left leg is stretched out and pointed towards the floor. She is wearing pink leggins and a black leotard.

Work out, dance out: ballet meets fitness

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During the third lockdown in the UK I made use of the vast offer of online dance classes and tried a taster class of Ballet Fusion – a mix of ballet technique and fitness.

Taken during the performance "Oh What A Show" on 8th December 2019 at LAMDA.  Hayley Bowman, Kelsey Williams, Nikole McGillvary, Navin Nair, Tamina Koehne-Drube, Becca Lam from left to right. (c) Sam Taylor. Multiple dancers on stage in mostly red clothes. The one in the middle has her right leg lifted, her arms form triangular shapes behind her head. The male dancer next to her points towards her with his right arm.

Back to studio: An interview about dance before, during and after lockdown

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Natalie Hunt, founder of Mamparadance, talks in an interview about teaching during lockdown and the return to studio classes in September 2020.

Hackney Live, online contributors to the choreography work on their routines, (c) Carole Edrich 2013

Making History Making Choreography #HackneyLive

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The night before last I went to the first of what will hopefully – eventually – become the first of a series of online dance events in which people all over Hackney were… Continue reading →

Suzanna Molnár leading a belly dance taster workshop at a studio in Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, (c) Carole Edrich 2013

City Academy Belly Dance Taster: Saturday at Sadler’s Wells

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Today was absolutely packed. I started by loosing 40 minutes looking for a spare camera battery before remembering it was already packed with the rest of my camera gear, went on to wrap… Continue reading →

Dancers performing in Unwritten at One Youth Dance, (c) Carole Edrich 2012

Unwritten with @OneYouthDance @ChisenhaleDance

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What a wonderful last formal assignment before Christmas! A performance of Unwritten, produced and arranged by Joanna of One Youth Dance. The idea of Unwritten was to create new work that the company’s… Continue reading →

Christmas Burlesque dancers at City Academy's November Showcase (c) Carole Edrich 2012

Telling the right story at Christmas (with the help of photoshop)

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Good story telling is hard, and the way you need to think about conveying it change radically according to how it will be told. For stand-alone images, it’s even more difficult as the… Continue reading →

City Academy Showcase, November 2012

City Academy Showcase

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City Academy Showcase (c) Carole Edrich 2012 I’m very pressed for time at the moment. I have a small operation next week and am working hard to get everything done before then. This… Continue reading →

Dancers celebrating the official launch of Big Dance 2012 at St Pancras Station

3 dance images representing Locus on #wordymonday

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All images: Young dancers from Akademi celebrating the official launch of Big Dance 2012 at St Pancras Station I selected this first photograph of young Akademi dancers below a clock and the Olympic… Continue reading →

Dancers from 60x60 held at Stratford Circus in 2010

Spin! and Gompertz’s gospel

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Both Images: Images: Two photographic themes of ‘spin’ featuring performances at 60×60 held at Stratford Circus in 2010 UK dance enthusiasts would have to have had their heads in a sack to have… Continue reading →

Tomorrow's Men at Canary Wharf

Ineluctable

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Both images: Tomorrow’s Men at Canary Wharf Time for a change. Every Monday I’m going to pick images that I think reflect an interesting sounding word, some of which I hope that you… Continue reading →