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Surrey Schools SLAM 2024

Dance Woking is excited to be producing its 3rd Surrey Schools SLAM! A schools dance platform, where groups in Woking & Surrey will be able to share work completed this term in front of family and friends in the hip hop/street style of dance.

Tuesday 26 March 2024, 7.15pm

Tickets for Surrey Schools SLAM are now on sale: school & guest groups taking part include:

The Park School, Beaufort Primary School, Westfield Primary School, Vital Signz, Stage Coach Woking, Trumps Green Infants School

Special guest Yolanda Newsome from Boy Blue will also be performing a demo on stage at Surrey Schools SLAM

Yolanda Newsome: began her dance career at IRIE! dance theatre, Britain’s leading dance theatre company working in the field of African & Caribbean dance fusion. Yolanda studied Contemporary, Ballet, African and Caribbean Dance. Specialising in HipHop Foundation and Waackin Performance credits; GOT TO DANCE Semi Finalist 2010; STREET DANCE MOVIE 3D; THANKS TIM (2012 London Olympics); SAN FRANCISCO HIP HOP FESTIVAL; LEGACY: THE RETURN, BREAKIN CONVENTION Apollo Theatre New York), Nike, An Night With BoyBlue, Boadicea Bahrain, EuroVision Opening Liverpool, MOBO Awards, Latitude & Wilderness Festival , BBC TV Series- MOOD, Nostos Festival (Athens) and most recent Manchester “Free Your Mind” Matrix at the Factory International Photo Credit. GaryShane.photography

To purchase tickets via ATG website please follow this link: HERE

This activity forms part of Dance Woking’s Inspiring Learning Programme and is an important area of our work. The dance clubs have been set-up to:

  • Improve the participants self-esteem and give them a new focus
  • Help improve the participants fitness, health & wellbeing
  • Learn new movement skills
  • Improve the participants understanding of teamwork
  • Through shared experience build a community feel within group
  • Encourage mutual support and respect
  • Provide an activity for the participants to do within their spare time
  • Raise aspirations for young people

Tickets are now on sale soon: To buy your tickets click HERE

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Young Dancemakers 2022

A Schools & Colleges Dance Platform

Local schools and colleges have been using 2022’s theme of ‘Rhythmn Storm’ as their stimulus to create imaginative and dynamic dance pieces. This showcase includes Primary, Secondary and higher education students. The schools have been working with Dance Woking’s Outreach team for 8 weeks to create their work.

This platform gives students the opportunity to perform in a professional theatre. As well as being encouraged to develop and input into the making of the piece, the students will experience the excitement of being backstage, with pre-show nerves, waiting to perform, the joy of the performance and the preparations in advance such as the dress and technical rehearsals. The choreography, costume and lighting design has all been the responsibility of the young dancers with some help from the Dance Woking team

Performance Groups Include:

Westfield Primary School, Horsell Village Infant School, Horsell Junior School, New Monument Academy, Broadmere Academy, Kings Academy Binfield, Guildford College and Woking College

Tickets are now available to purchase.

Doors open at 6.15pm for refreshments, Theatre doors open at 6.45pm with the show commencing at 7pm

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