Colours – Evening of Dance 2019

7 May 2019Ms Lorraine Blake

Look around, there is colour everywhere: in nature, in art, in cities, in our homes and in dance! Each year the students of Brentwood suggest possible themes for our annual showcase, The Evening of Dance. This year the winning idea allowed us to ‘move in colour’. This theme gave our students and choreographers an opportunity to interpret and describe their own connections between moods and colours in music, expressed through movement. Pieces from an array of local dancers/choreographers, including our own talented students, will be presented to the public on May 10, 2019 at the T. Gil Bunch Centre for the Performing Arts. For Evening of Dance 2019, Colours, our dancers have explored many styles in the studio and have prepared contemporary, stage, jazz, lyrical and, ever popular, hip-hop pieces. During our performance of Colours, the audience will be able to enjoy numbers featuring large group ensembles, small group choreographies, trios, duets and solos. Some titles include "Dark Side", "Fever", "Cherry Wine" and "Blue Neighbourhood". Fifty-four dancers from Grades 8 through 12 attend three, 50-minute classes each week to improve technique, gain flexibility and strength, work as a team, and, most importantly, learn about themselves while appreciating one of the most traditional and immediately expressive forms of creativity and art – dancing. This is my 19th year as Director of the Dance Program at Brentwood and of producing the Evening of Dance. As my career has developed, so too have opportunities adjudicating, teaching and examining dance students all over the world. I am, however, continually drawn back to my Mill Bay students at Brentwood and Steps Ahead Dance. Each and every year the students not only keep me on my toes, but both inspire and challenge me. Through a 23-year teaching career, I have seen several students go on to study dance at post-secondary institutions and professional companies and I am delighted that many of my own students now teach dance in studios across the country. It is my hope the graduating dancers of 2019 will take their own colourful memories of their dance experiences at Brentwood as they continue along the paths of their lives. I am ever grateful for the opportunity to lead tomorrow’s leaders. Title: Colours – An Evening of Dance Where: T. Gil Bunch Centre for the Performing Arts When: May 10th, 2019 Time: 7:30 pm We are also running performances on May 8th and 9th for our student audiences Cost: $10 General Admission Tickets: theatre.brentwood.bc.ca

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