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Visit The Place website to find out more about their opportunities for young dancers including their CAT scheme.

Here’s what you need to know and do:

Your dance can take the form of an activity, event or simply a few dance moves. It can be any style from street to ballet, it can be large or small and filmed absolutely anywhere from bedrooms to playgrounds to ballrooms – it’s your call!

Tell the fan page about your dance and if you want us to, we’ll promote your event or activity as an I Love to Dance event on the fan page PLUS we’ll send you some very special I Love to Dance badges for you and all your mates who like a bit of a dance.

Whatever dance you choose to do – why not film it, tell us in the video why you love to dance and share it on our I Love to Dance page. You will automatically be entered into our competition to win one of 5 Wii Fit Bundles* – so get those video cameras and phones out and get filming!

As if that wasn’t enough, we are also organising an event in London on the day of love,14th February, and will announce it to all fans soon – keep a look out on the I Love to Dance fan page for further details plus info about fans events.

IF YOU LOVE TO DANCE – JOIN OUR FAN PAGE AND TELL THE NATION WHY!

Check out America's Best Dance Crew on MTV and Glee on E4.

Flourish is a comprehensive programme of professional development opportunities for dance artists and teachers across South East England. It aims to provide access to high quality training and encourage discourse in dance. Following a very successful autumn season, we are looking forward to launching the spring season of Flourish 2010 in February. Highlights of the new season will include: an intensive weekend with Rosemary Butcher in Oxford; a workshop/audition with Willie Dorner in Brighton, a workshop with Arthur Pita, also in Brighton and a series of curated events by Lucy Cash (South East Dance Associate Artist). The season will kick off on Wednesday 10 February with In Focus: A seminar for teachers and lecturers working in screen dance at Rich Mix in London, followed by Survival Tactics for the Anarchic Dancer, a performance lecture by Professor Liz Aggiss. FLOURISH SPRING BROCHURE COMING SOON

www.southeastdance.org.uk

Contact: South East Dance 28 Kensington Street Brighton BN1 4AJ T

01273 696844 

sed@southeastdance.org.uk

This January, the biggest national dance competition to ever hit UK TV screens comes to Sky1 HD. Scouring the nation for Britain’s best crews, troupes and solo dancers of all styles and ages, Got To Dance looks to discover the country’s most talented dance floor divas. The one and only Davina McCall hosts the glittering competition that will push its contestants to their limits as they strive to win the life-changing cash prize of £100,000.

Check out the dancers including RAD trained Matthew Koon.

http://sky1.sky.com/dance

Calling all dance performers…Get On Stage is back! After the amazing success of last year Get On Stage is back with a bang and its going to be even bigger and better for 2010! The ‘Get On Stage’ online dance competition aims to find sensational dancers or dance groups in any style of dance to perform live at MOVE IT in March in front of a crowd of up to 5,000! This is an amazing opportunity for you or your dance troupe to get spotted and kick start that dance career you always dreamt of.

http://www.moveitdance.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=21/t=m/goSection=5

From 10 to 21 of August Step into Dance are leading a free Summer school at the RAD for 14 to 19 year olds as part of Wandsworth Summer Uni. The course offers students the opportunity to learn new techniques and choreograph their own dance routine. Classes will be taught by Sue Goodman, Jade Shaw (one of our Step into Dance teachers and Stella McGowan, the UK BGirl champion will also be a guest teacher. Students from all dance backgrounds are welcome. Visit the website for details of how to apply. Deadline August 6th.

www.summerunilondon.org/courses/CourseInfo.aspx?courseid=7311

Hosted by: Strictly Hip Hop South Africa, MTV Base and Centurion Mall R200,000 in cash and prizes to be won plus a chance to showcase your talent on International TV to over 80 million viewers worldwide. This competition is open to every dancer from every province. All dancers that enter receive a free Championship T-Shirt, A Dance DVD, A Music CD, A Medal and a certificate of Participation.

Entrants may participate in the following sections: Sections: (All age categories) - Solos - Duets - Popping and Locking - Krumping - Freestyle - Small Groups - Formations - Crews

 Entry Forms ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/DanceDirectory/ea76e8b626/cb044f280f/67079fff6b ) Online Entries ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/DanceDirectory/ea76e8b626/cb044f280f/341fb441dd )

Date: 8th August 2009 Spectators watch for Free Venue: Centurion Mall Pretoria

Closing Date For Entries: 1st August 2009

Head Adjudicator for Main Event: Stephan Twitch Boss (Runner up from the hit MTV show, ‘The Wade Robson Project’. 

For More Information: Cynthia Omba

Email Cynthia ( mailto:info@strictlyhiphop.co.za )

Visit Strictly Hip Hop ( http://cts.vresp.com/c/DanceDirectory/ea76e8b626/cb044f280f/3f1e733ca2 )

25th July Southbank Centre

Girl groups only aged 14 - 22

Following last years hugely successful competition, 8 groups were selected to train with with Nike D'Clash Crew. Since that time winning groups have performed all over the city and have continued to develop their skills.

If you're 14 to 22 and you and your friends think you have what it takes to be dancers come along with a prepared routine of 1 and a half minutes to the Royal Festival Hall.

http://www.londondance.com/content.asp?CategoryID=3004

judi@independence.co.uk

The Royal Academy of Dance, Jack Petchey Foundation and Step into Dance Congratulate Diversity on winning Britain's Got Talent.

Want to send your own message to Diversity?

Follow the links below to read about recent Step Into Dance events.

http://www.stmarksacademy.com/news/stepintodance.htm

http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/search/4272517.print/

"Totally and utterly inspiring" The Guardian

9-12 June 7:30pm All tickets £5

0871 22 117 26

www.lyric.co.uk

Lyric Hammersmith

W6 0QL

Join Amici for a week of unique evening events hosted and run by Wolfgang Stange, giving you the opportunity to observe and take part in open-workshops and live demonstrations of their methods and practises, with guest appearances by other companies that Amici have worked with.

The Lyric's resident dance company, Amici, integrate able-bodied and disabled artists and performers. Founded by Wolfgang Stange in 1980, Amici have had a major impact worldwide challenging conventional attitudes about disability and the arts.

Tue 9 June / Behind the Scenes with Amici A special preview showing of extracts from The Magic of Amici, a new DVD and resource pack of Amici’s groundbreaking and original working methods. The evening will be introduced by Wolfgang Stange and Amici members with an open floor discussion.

Wed 10 June / Open-workshop A chance to take part in an Amici class run by Wolfgang Stange. Join in Amici’s inspiring movement improvisations.

Thur 11 June / Scratch Night 1 Workshop demonstrations with Amici and Wolfgang Stange followed by scratch performances from Amici and friends including The Moleigh Dance Company.

Fri 12 June / Scratch Night 2 Workshop demonstrations with Amici and Wolfgang Stange followed by scratch performances from Amici and friends including Indepen-dance performing “Just 2 good pals”.

10 - 12 June / Day-time workshops Amici members are running daytime workshops for school groups, the local community and professionals. For further information and to take part please contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060

Sadler’s Wells Theatre has launched a global online dance contest through YouTube. The competition will last four years and each year's winner will receive £2000 and will be brought to London to perform on the main stage at Sadler’s Wells Sampled, the theatre's dance showcase weekend. The contest will build up to a final performance of all winners in 2012. To enter the competition you will have to upload a video of your own original piece of dance (any style) lasting from 30 sec to 3 min on YouTube, and subsequently submit it to Global Dance Contest 

http://newsletter.rad.org.uk/_act/link.php?mId=B7458533868183623142536287&tId=1736078

Deadline is 17 July 2009. Good luck!

(www.thirdsector.co.uk)

Funding Story: Step Into Dance

By: Radhika Holmstrom

The Jack Petchey Foundation and the Royal Academy of Dance have brought the art form to children across London. When the Jack Petchey Foundation approached the Royal Academy of Dance in November 2005, with the aim of funding a pilot of extra-curricular dance classes for 400 students in 28 secondary schools, Melanie Adams, head of marketing and communications at the academy, was sceptical. She says: "As a dance education charity, it's not every day that someone contacts you with a proposal to fund your mission. However, the more I found out, the more I felt secure that this was a real possibility. When we met, it was very clear that the foundation had done its research. "The key to this has been partnership. We had very strong ideas of what we wanted to achieve, and so did they. We were very lucky in that those rarely clashed - but there was a bit of compromise along the way." Adams admits that, although the Step into Dance pilot has been successful, not everything has gone smoothly. The Academy was unsure about working in the four London boroughs the foundation wanted it to: Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. However, Adams says: "I'm very glad we did, because we have widened participation in dance." Andrew Billington, director of the foundation, agrees about the importance of a genuine partnership. He says: "We did ask questions, mainly about the ability to meet the needs of schools that didn't have very good facilities for dance. And, yes, some of the tutors have had to adapt some of their thinking, but they've been prepared to do that. "We were very concerned about offering different forms of dance, and the academy was happy to do that. But forcing people to do things they don't really want to won't work - both parties genuinely need to appreciate each other's goals and interests." The Step into Dance pilot has been so successful that the foundation has given it £179,000 to extend the scheme to four more London boroughs - Croydon, Hammersmith & Fulham, Merton and Wandsworth. It plans to extend the initiative further. "The key to rolling it out was our ability to say 'these are the areas where we can improve' and theirs to say 'we realise we need to get more out of it in this area'," Adams says. The questions will continue, but that's precisely what makes the partnership effective.

Step into Dance will hold two taster workshops this month for schools in the boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Croydon:

December 10, Fulham Cross Girls School

December 17, St Andrew’s Church Of England High School, Croydon

Further details of the event are available by contacting Donna Craig, Schools Coordinator: mailto:dcraig@stepintodance.org

Move It is the UK's biggest dance exhibition, held at London Olympia. This year's event runs from 7-9 March and Step into Dance will be holding two taster workshops on Friday 7 March:

12.30pm - 1.15pm, Step into Dance workshop for teachers

2.00pm - 2.45pm, Step into Dance workshop for students

Step into Dance students will also be performing on the main stage at 3.30pm

Find out more about Move It 2008 and book tickets

Rachel Groom, CLIC Sargent’s National Events Coordinator, introduces an inventive fundraising project designed to encourage young people to improve their musical and dancing skills whilst raising money for children with cancer.

Find out more about Practice-a-thon Dance