Phoenix Dance Workshop

Year 10 Btec Dance spent a morning working with a professional dancer from Phoenix Dance theatre. This formed part of their Btec Dance Unit C14 – Contemporary Dance
Students worked in a contemporary style throughout the morning, students spent the first 30 minutes completing a contemporary warm up. The warm up focused on body alignment, posture, balance, coordination, release and fall.
The second section of the workshop involved students learning part of the professional repertoire of the routine ‘Melt’. Melt is a professional dance piece performed on tour by Phoenix Theatre. Artistic Director Sharon Watson’s Melt sees elements colliding as dancers swoop and glide across the stage in a graceful. Set to the distinctive, evocative music of Mercury Music Prize nominees Wild Beasts.
Students worked hard to learn the choreography and were able to perform in small groups in order to be assessed.
The final part of the workshop required students to create their own choreography. Students performed their duets to the class and the professional dancer actually assessed all students and gave great praise to their attitude effort and dance ability.
Well done to all the students who took part.
Abbie Bellwood
Annesse Jessop
Chloemay Tyson
Danica Day
Dannelle Paige
Elisha Coult
Georgia Burton
Jodie Stanford
Jordan Wall
Julija Kondratenko,
Kara Harold
Laura Yaxley
Lauren Rainger
Monica Wharram
Renell Byas
Samantha Brown
Shona Thompson
Paulina Wloddarska