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Winter Guest Teacher Announcement

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We are so happy to have SUE SPARHAM joining us for REC Winter Warm Up 2020. Book your place now to warm up your mind, body and dance your way into the new year!
Sue Specialises in Lyrical and Commercial Jazz, She has worked extensively in Theatre, Film and TV, with credits including Featured Dancer in Jhoom Baraber Jhoom (Yash Raj Productions), dancer in several Music Videos, Singer in The Commitments (UK Theatre Tour), The Sensations (UK Theatre Tour), Guest Entertainer for P&O Cruises, and corporate events for BMW, Marriot Hotels, Hilton, Trent FM, Disneyland and Palm Beach Casino, Cannes. Choreography includes: Encore (Sadlers Wells Theatre), Pointe Break with Ballet Theatre UK (UK Tour) and several productions for MADD including The Criterion Theatre, Bloomsbury Theatre and Move It. This year, Sue’s choreography has won several national awards and competitions.
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Thank you!

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We want to say another massive thanks to the students and teachers that joined us for both weeks this summer. We had such a good time and you all worked so hard, it was the perfect way to close REC 2019 and we can’t wait to tell you all about what we have coming up in 2020! Keep your eyes peeled for information coming soon….

Announcing Guest Teacher No.2

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Joining us this year for a couple of days is Carrie Johnson!

As a student Carrie trained with Marilyn Baker and Tring Park gaining Bronze at The Genee International Ballet Competition and Young British Dancer of the Year Competition 2003. She has danced worldwide with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Ballett am Rhein (soloist), New Adventures (principal) Phantom of the Opera and the Mconie Company. Most recently she danced in Disney’s ‘Nutcracker & The Four Realms’ choreographed by Liam Scarlett.

She is a graduate of the Professional Dancer’s Teaching Diploma 2015 (Distinction) and currently teaches at The Urdang Academy and London Studio Centre. She is a guest teacher for New Adventures and Yorke Dance Project and has taught at the Royal Academy of Dance’s Singapore, Kuala Lumpar and Battersea Summer Schools. Last year she also taught for the RAD’s prestigious Phyllis Bedell’s Bursary.

Carrie has taught workshops and classes for Yorkshire Ballet Seminars, Dance East, Tring Park, Performers College, MTA, London Junior and Senior Ballet, Staffordshire Youth Ballet and Ballet Boost. She is currently Associate Artistic Director at National Youth Ballet, having in previous years been repetiteur for Christopher Hampson’s ‘Carnival’ and Drew Mconie’s ‘Old Man of Lochnagar’.

Welcome to the team Carrie and we can’t wait to work with you!

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Guest Teacher No.1

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We are so happy to announce that the amazing Graeme Pickering will be returning as our first Guest Teacher for Summer 2019. Graeme will be with us for a couple of days and we are so looking forward to it!!!

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Happy Easter Everyone

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We would like to take this opportunity to say Well Done! to all of our Easter Course students, you worked incredibly hard and learnt so much in three days. Another big thank you goes to Sophie for working with us all this week, she has been so fantastic with students and taught them so much so gracefully. We hope you all enjoyed the demonstration and had a fantastic time like we did!

Thank You Sophie!

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After a full-on fours days at REC Easter Course we would like to say a huge Thank You! to our guest tutor Sophie Mergaliyev. She is an amazing teacher, was wonderful with all the students and worked so well with as part of our team this week. We are so glad she had a good time and hope to see you again soon Miss Sophie ❤️

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Venue Confirmed

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We have updated our website to confirm the venue for our summer courses!

Join us again at our regular home at Centre of Performing Arts Hinckley COPAH Studios, 6 Hollier’s Walk, Hinckley, Leicestershire LE10 1QW for both weeks in the summer.

We cant wait to see you there!

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All Warmed Up!

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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Back to Ballet Winter Warm Up 2019, including the fantastic Graeme Pickering! What an amazing start to the year, we hope your hard work as got you thoroughly ready for your next term of dancing triumphs. We hope to see you again to check that you have grown and improved and to have another lot of fun at REC!

What a stunning group of students you were! Look…