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Paralympics Dance Workshop
Time: 17 – 21 December 2007
Venue: Beijing Disabled Persons Activity Centre
Address: No.318 Guanganmennei Street. Xuanwu District. Beijing
The British Council, operating as the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Beijing, ran a week long dance workshop for young people, designed to enhance their communications skills. Organised in partnership with Northern Ballet Theatre Learning and Access department, and China Disabled Persons Federation (CDPF), the dance workshop was run from 17- 21 December at the Beijing Disabled Persons Federation Cultural Centre.
20 workshop participants aged from 18-25 were selected by the end of November. The participants were supposed to be non-professional dancers and half of the group were disabled. The workshop aims to improve their communication abilities creatively, through dance. The CDPF nominated the disabled candidates, while the able-bodied were student teachers, training to teach the disabled at Beijing Union University.
The dance workshop was the first event of the Young Advocates Programme – Developing the Paralympic Spirit. This is a British Council led initiative to help China and the UK secure an international legacy to their Paralympic Games, by developing skills in a core group of young people and through them raising awareness of the potential of sport to benefit a diverse range of people in the community. The disabled dance workshop participants would be committed to becoming Young Advocates themselves.
Please click here to read more about the workshop.
Britain's favourite ballet company
HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, KCVO as the Royal Patron
NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE presents
Madame Butterfly
Closing Performance of the 5th Beijing International Dance Festival
Choreography: DAVID NIXON
Music by: GIACOMO PUCCINI
IN BEIJING:
Date: 21 (Fri), 22 (Sat), 23 (Sun) December 2007 at 19.30
Venue: Poly Theatre, Beijing
Presented by: Milky Way Arts & Communications Co. Ltd
Price: RMB 1680、1280、880、680、580、380、280、120、1600 (880x2)
Tickets: 010 65516930, 65516906
IN SHANGHAI:
Date: 3 - 4 Jan, 2008 (Thursday and Friday) at 19.15
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai
Presented by: Shanghai Municipal Performance Company
Price: RMB 800(VIP)、680、500、400、300、200
Tickets: 021 62721976，62720310，63728701
Know more about Madame Butterfly please click here.
Northern Ballet Theatre
http://www.northernballettheatre.co.uk
Leeds based Northern Ballet Theatre was formed in 1969 and was the first national ballet company in England to be based outside London. It is one of the four large-scale ballet companies regularly funded by Arts Council England.
Northern Ballet Theatre is the only English dance company to tour every country in the UK including capital cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and London and almost every major city in between, for up to 26 weeks every year. When the company isn’t on tour, it’s back at base in Leeds, creating new work or rehearsing its acclaimed repertoire. Northern Ballet Theatre creates at least two major new works each
year that are usually premiered in Leeds at either the Grand Theatre & Opera House or the West Yorkshire Playhouse. The company does not set out to be a “traditional” ballet company and has developed a unique style of “ballet-theatre” in recent years, based on strong movement-based story-telling, rarely drawing on traditional ballet titles, preferring subject matter frequently derived form novels
(Dangerous Liaisons, A Christmas Carol), plays (A streetcar Named Desire) or opera (Carmen, Madame Butterfly, La Traviata).
Northern Ballet Theatre attracts talented dancers from all over the world, drawn to the company’s unique style of strong narrative work with popular appeal. Dancers hail from the USA, Japan, Brazil, Italy, France, South Africa, Australia and, of course, UK. The company is currently made up of 39 dancers.
HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, KCVO is now the Royal Patron of Northern Ballet Theatre. He took the position after HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the former Royal Patron of NBT passed away.
NBT facts
Artistic Director - David Nixon
Nixon’s career began at the National Ballet of Canada where he progressed rapidly ranks to become a principal dancer, dancing lead roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire. In 1985 he joined the Deutsche Oper Ballet in Berlin as principal dancer where he won the Critics Award for Best Male Performance (1987) and continued to increase his own choreographic output.
In 1994 David became Artist Director of BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio USA, During his six-years with the company he added sixteen world and fifteen company premieres to the repertoire. Companies in Canada, the USA and South Africa have since staged David’s productions.
David came to NBT in 2001 and has revitalised the company, adding an impressive array of new works into the repertoire including the hugely popular Madame Butterfly, the Gershwin extravaganza, I Got Rhythm, Swan Lake, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Peter Pan and Dracula. His new production of The Three Musketeers premiered last September and a new adaptation A Sleeping Beauty Tale opens in Leeds this season.
David was voted Director of the Year by readers of Dance Europe magazine in 2003 and again in 2006, making him the only Director to ever win the award twice. Northern Ballet Theatre won the Audience Award in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 National Dance Awards – making it the first company to win the Award in consecutive years.
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