Dansarena Hall of Fame
Rotary calendar for charity
Dancers at Bruce's Well
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Winners
of Associate places in Scottish Ballet's Training Programme 2011-2012
Junior Associates
back row - Lauren Kerr,
Conlan Mc Luckie& Sophie Craig
front row - Ella Craig, Zara Loudon
& Alice Mc Laughlin
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Winners
of Associate places in Scottish Ballet's Training Programme 2011-2012
Mid
Associates
from Left to Right
Lauren Rennie
Nicole Bryden
Lucy Mc Phail
Emma Jarvie
Sanjana Karumuri
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Elizabeth Robertson
 Cara Gilbert  Amy Cobb
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 Ashton Mc Tear  Lauren Kerr
Winners of Associate places in Scottish Ballet's Training Programme 2011-2012
Senior Associates
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Winners of the 2011 James Mitchell Scholarship for Excellence.
Kim Cassidy
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Winners
of the 2010 James Mitchell Scholarship for Excellence .
Back - Vicky Mair and Front - Lynsey
Reid
Below - Sophie Riddoch
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Zoe Gosling (back row centre)winner of the 2011 Susan Cole Memorial Cup for Endeavour.
Kim Cassidy (back row L) and Megan Baird (back row R) winners of the 2011 Scholarship for excellence.
Jodie Chan (front row L)has gained a place in Knightswood Dance Course and Niamh Gormley (front R) has gained a place in Knightswood Musical Theatre Course.
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17
year old Kim Cassidy from Irvine was this year's winner
of the Susan Cole Memorial Cup for Endeavour 2010.
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Jill McCreadie, winner of the 2009
Susan Cole Memorial cup for Endeavour.
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Lucy McPhail winner of Scottish Junior Awards
Trophy 2011
for Grade 5 section held by
the R.A.D. Scottish Region at Edinburgh Dance Base.
Ellie Crosbie winner of Scottish Junior Awards
Trophy 2011
for Grade 2 section held by
the R.A.D. Scottish Region at Edinburgh Dance Base.
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Lauren Rennie winner of Scottish Senior Awards Trophy 2010 for Intermediate Foundation section held by the R.A.D. Scottish Region at Edinburgh Dance Base.
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Pictured is 11 year old Nicole Bryden who won the Junior Awards Trophy for Grade 4 in the recent competition held by the R.A.D. Scottish Region at Edinburgh's Dance Base. |
Ashton McTear
Eleven year old Ashton McTear
was the winner of the Grade 4/5 section of the Scottish Junior
Awards of the R.A.D. for Classical Ballet students at the Annual Competition held in October 2007. |
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Dansarena pupils performing in the Palace Theatre Kilmarnock Pantomime 2011 CINDERELLA
Chloe Wallace,Rebekah Loy,Katie Quinn,Emily Bolland and Nicole Brown
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12
year old Charlie Fisher from Irvine won the inter schools
Talent Competition.
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Summer School participants
with their certificates of achievement - July 2010
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Jill Rennie
Jill started dancing age 3, at the old premises
in Adamton Road, Prestwick. In 1979 age 11, she gained a
scholarship to ”Scottish Ballet” in Glasgow,
where she studied for 3 years.
Succsessfully auditioning for ”Bush Davies School of Performing
Arts” in 1982, Jill uprooted and moved to East Grinstead in West
Sussex, where she studied intensivly for the next 5 years, gaining many
RAD & ISTD dancing & teaching certificates in ballet, modern,
tap, national, drama & singing.
Over the next 20 years, Jill worked as a professional dancer all over
the world. Dancing in Opera, Musicals, Pantomimes, Cabaret, T.V. & Cruise
Ships, in a Dance Captain/ Choreographer position, producing shows.
Jill has now retired from her professional dance career, but still remains
very much involved in the teaching side of dance. She now lives and works
in Norway.
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June
Skinner became a pupil of the Karen Mitchell School
when she was 5 years old. She excelled in
all her R.A.D. Ballet examinations and successfully
auditioned
for Scottish Ballet Scholarship
classes when she was 18 and graduated to the Company
when she was 21.
June danced with Scottish Ballet for 9 years travelling
to many countries throughout Europe.
She also had the opportunity to dance in America and
Australia. One of the highlights of her career was when
Rudolph Nureyev danced with the Company in La Sylphide.
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Former Dansarena
pupil Laura Jane Gibson pictured on stage at the Birmingham
Hippodrome dancing with the Royal Ballet Company in Sleeping Beauty.
Laura Jane began dancing at Dansarena at the age of 3 and continued until the age of 17 passing all her dance examinations with Honours and Distinction.
Laura Jane was a Junior and Senior Associate of Scottish Ballet and her final three years of training were done at Elmhurst Ballet School outside
Birmingham.
Photograph by Tim Cross |
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Vicky Riddoch
Vicky began her dance training at Dansarena Studios at the age of 5. She quickly progressed through all her Grade examinations from Primary to Advanced before gaining entry to the prestigious London Studio Centre school for Vocational Dance Studies.
Vicky graduated in 2009 with a degree in Theatre Dance and is currently dancing with KINISI Conteporary Dance Company .
In September Vicky will move to Holland to be part of the cast of the new production of WICKED.
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April McMillan
April took her first dance lesson at Dansarena at the age of 2. At seventeen she then moved to Cambridge where she studied for 3 years at Bodywork Performing Arts, gaining a National diploma in Professional Musical theatre from Trinity College London. While studying April was given the opportunity to perform in the cast of Snow White in Dubai.
After graduating in 2008, April went straight into work with a U.K. touring show company and since then has performed contracts in many hotels and cabaret venues up and down the country as well as touring Ireland with Circus Vegas.
Now based in Blackpool, April will be performing 6 nights a week for Choice Hotels for the remainder of 2011.
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Scott Gillies
Scott is currently living in the States where he is Resident Director of 12 Irish Tenors and also dancing in Spirit Of The Dance as Lead boy and Company Manager.
The past 5 years he has been Dance Captain or Company Manager for the touring productions. He also assisted in choreographing the show Dancing Queen which toured the UK including The Kings in Glasgow.
The highlight of his career was dancing in Michael Jacksons charity concert 'Michael Jackson And Friends' in front of 100,00 people in the Olympic Stadiums of Seoul, South Korea and Munich, Germany with Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross and Lionel Ritchie.
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Former Dansarena Pupil Kathryn
Tuckerman from Prestwick has just graduated from the Central
School of Ballet in London and has been touring with the
British Gas Company.
Having
gained Honours for all her R.A.D. Graded Ballet and I.S.T.D. Graded
Tap and Modern Theatre Examinations, Kathryn went on to excel in
her Major Examinations before auditioning
successfully for the Central School of Ballet in London. |
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Having completed her 2 years
of Vocational Professional training at this highly prestigious
school, Kathryn now has
the opportunity to go on tour with the School's Company
to 24 venues all over Britain.
Kathryn recently opened the
Central
School's performance at the Wembly Arena with a Pas De
Deux, choreographed for her and her dance partner.
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Pupils are encouraged to audition each year for the Scottish Ballet's Junior and Senior Associate Dance Training scheme in Glasgow. Many candidates have been successful in gaining places and have benefited enormously from the extra tuition these classes provide.
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