After celebrating its tenth anniversary on the Ipswich waterfront last year, DanceEast begins the new decade with a highly anticipated Spring season, featuring two premieres. The season commences with Enowate. Making his Ipswich debut, Dickson Mbi presents Enowate, which translates as ‘truth stands’, inspired by a personal trip Dickson took to his family ancestral village […]
Hi my lovely dancers! Today I’m going to share with you some good tips in order to maintain a good back and hand positions. How do you recognize the look of a dancer? The incomparable support due to a muscular and supple back but also the dance up to the fingertips which enhances the movements. Dancing can help […]
Hi my lovely dancers! Today, I am going to talk about the pillar of the dance. Do you have an idea? Classical dance of course ! “Old” of more than four centuries, it is the heir to the court dance practiced by the kings and queens of France and Italy. The great ballet masters gradually established its […]
When choreographer Joseph Toonga co-founded Just Us Dance Theatre with Ricardo Da Silva and Rudeen February in 2007, a major part of the company’s ethos was to inspire, support and nurture others. In 2013, the company set up the first of two mentoring programmes, Let’s Shine, to empower young hip hop performers and provide them […]
Hi my lovely dancers! Today I’am going to give you some good tips in order to choose the right ballet shoes. That’s what best symbolizes a ballet dancer, isn’t it? Even if they are painful, they make aspiring ballerinas dream, eagerly awaiting the moment when they can slip their feet into those satin shoes. BALLET SHOES, […]
