SWDT Summer Dance Intensive

 

Looking for activities for children aged 7-11 in the summer holidays?
 
Book our summer dance activities 24th and 25th July at
 
 
The SWDT summer dance intensive offers two full days 9-5pm dance related activities for all abilities at Fresh Dance & Arts Centre 44-46 Greenbank Road BS5 6EY.
 
Book the full two days (£45), individual days (£25), half days (£15) or individual sessions (£10) as works for you and your child.
 
Learn a range of dance disciplines AND have the opportunity to perform (if you want to) at the Redfest Dance Takeover, one of the events on Church Road Saturday 26th July in lieue of the cancelled festival in the park.
 
All sessions taught by artists and teachers of South West Dance Theatre.
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Dance activities include:
  • classical ballet
  • breakdancing
  • basic biomechanics
  • contemporary dance
  • acrodancing with kpop
  • dance musicality
 
More info and schedule at Headfirst Bristol
 
Spaces limited so book asap at
(Thursday)
(Friday)
 
Questions? contact info@southwestdancetheatre.com

 

Led by?

 

Founding director Anna

Silvia Orazzo aka bgirl danger

Teresa Wai Yi Shum - acro and kpop teacher

 

 

                                                                                                                                                 

 

 

South West Dance Theatre Dance Schools Workshops

 

Looking for fresh ways to present school subjects?

South West Dance Theatre are offering dance workshops on science, Shakespeare and WW2, where we use dance to play with ideas from the school curriculum.

 

Photos from the MacBeth workshop at Elmfield School in the run up to Lady MacBeth

 

Workshops last two hours, have moderate cost and resource requirements and offer pupils the chance to :

- get moving

- discuss ideas on key topics

- see how dance can illustrate key topics

- work with dancers to choreograph their own dance pieces on subjects from their school curriculum

 

To book or find out more email info@southwestdancetheatre.com

 

Topics on offer

 

Science

South West Dance Theatre have long worked with ideas in science, in particular light (such as wave-particle duality, colour and photosynthesis), and quantum mechanics (such as coupling, entanglement, and quantization of energy). Workshops would be led by Anna Demming Davis, an experienced dance practitioner with a PhD in physics, and over a decade's experience writing and working for the Institute of Physics.

 

 

Clips of choreography on the physics of light from the International Year of Light

  

Shakespeare

South West Dance Theatre have worked with the Bristol Shakespeare Festival on several Dance pieces including Lady MacbethWaltz and Shimmy with Shakespeare and Being Romeo and Juliet

 

Lady Macbeth also worked incorporated British Sign Language and we provided a Macbeth dance workhop for children with little or limited hearing at Elfield Schoolin the lead up to the first performance. The pupils used dance to play with the rhyme, rhythm and imagery of Shakespeare's original text as well as tell the tale at gripping moments of one of the world's most famous plays.

 

 

 

World War 2

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of WW2 in 2019 and the 75th anniversary of the armistice in 2020, South West Dance Theatre have developed a piece that portrays the loves, losses, grit and fortitude of people around the world during the war. The next performance of Letters from the Home Front takes place at the Mission Theatre in Bath. We would be delighted to provide a workshop where pupils can use movement to explore some of the experiences people underwent at the home front as well as the battle fields. 

 

 

South West Dance Theatre performing Letters from the Home Front at the Trinity on Remembrance Sunday 2019 (still from video by Roger Barnes)

 

Workshop costs and resource requirements

 

Each workshop costs £100-£150 depending on the group size and whether we need to provide one or two dancers to lead it.

 

We would need:

A large room, ideally access to a PA and possibly in school staff support depending on group size and special needs.

 

 

For booking email info@southwestdancetheatre.com