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Where Can Dance Take You?

March 22, 2011

On Saturday 19th March the Yorkshire Young Dancers took part in a dance routes progression day as part of the Yorkshire Dance and Youth Dance England...

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The Place CAT and Junior Guildhall Collaboration

March 14, 2011

Follow the link below to see a new documentary about the collaboration between The Place CAT and Junior Guidhall  

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The Place CAT feature in London Youth Dance

March 14, 2011

Visit the link below to see an interview with Bun - a young dancer on The Place CAT schemes at The Place and attending Circus Space

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The Place CAT wish fond farewell to Programme Manager, Lucy Field

March 14, 2011

This month all staff, students and Families at The Place CAT said a fond farewell to CAT manager Lucy Field. Lucy has been working for the National Dance CATs for the last 7 years and will be very much missed.  You can keep up to...

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CAT Graduate gains two year contract with NDT 2

February 16, 2011

David Ledger graduated from the contemporary strand of the Yorkshire Young Dancers Programme (run by Northern School of Contemporary Dance) in 2008 and went on to continue his dance training with Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary...

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Ballet CATs go diving!

February 14, 2011

5 students from Northern Ballet's CAT programme took part in a performance yesterday afternoon (13th Feb) with the Leeds Diving Squad at the John Charles Aquatics Centre. The performance piece took swimming and diving as it's inspiration...

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New Adventures for The Place CAT February Intensive

February 14, 2011

This February intensive, CAT students at The Place will be working with Shelby Williams and Steve Kirkham of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures looking at Cinderella, and also Australian dance specialist Bridget Fiske who will be exploring...

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Dance City CAT – Call out for teaching staff

January 31, 2011

Dance City’s CAT is seeking teachers based in the North East region to put on their register of teachers to invite to take classes in

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Centre for Advanced Training in South Asian and Contemporary Dance, DanceXchange. Auditions anounced!

January 27, 2011

Stage 1 Auditions for DanceXchange's 2011/2012 CAT intake will take place at DanceXchange in Birmingham on the following dates:   Contemporary Strand Rosie Kay Stage 1 // Sunday 29th May...

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Harvey's first experience of ballet

January 27, 2011

For those of you who watched the BBC documentary in the Autumn about the all boys cheerleading group in Leeds- Dazl Diamonds- we thought you might like an update as to how Harvey Pratt is getting along. Harvey started dancing on Northern...

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I think the best thing about the training is that we are taught not only the technique and movement but we are taught the science behind it. I find this really helpful as it gives me an understanding of why things are done a certain way and I can visualize the body whilst doing the movement.

Yorkshire Young Dancers, Northern Ballet Theatre, male student age 14