[dmalbum path=”/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/Broadwaters/”/] Older dancers from Creative Dance 60+ shared a lively workshop with children from The Willow on Broadwaters (formally Broadwater Farm Primary School) in their light and airy gym on Thursday 24th November 2011. That Thursday in Tottenham, both children and the elders were very exited about the workshop because neither […]
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[album: https://www.simonascotto.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/Pass it on/] For the past three years I’ve been taking part in the Foundation for Community Dance Summer School as a way of developing my artistic ideas. This has been a great opportunity not only to learn from wonderful artists and teachers such as Luca Silvestrini, Ruth […]
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The job I do reveals challenges and gifts from all that I meet, week in week out. I thought this time I would talk about 5 things that are great about the people I work with. Here goes: 1. They’re Brave The courage students have in taking up dancing at […]
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[album: https://www.simonascotto.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/Beginnings of Counterpoint/] Counterpoint Dance Company came about as the result of major public interest created by the BBC1 documentary Save the Last Dance for Me about Sadler’s Wells’ Company of Elders. Sadler’s Wells’ Connect department were inundated with people interested in joining the company. Unfortunately, at that time the company was not taking […]
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[album: https://www.simonascotto.com/wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/dm-albums.php?currdir=/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/Breugel the Elder/] In May 2011, inspired by Pieter Breugel the Elder’s oil painting “The Tower of Babel“, we combined dance, poetry, language, painting and music to create our own masterpiece! This project brought together a creative collaboration between the creative dance class at Claremont, art classes from Cubitt and the creative […]
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Last October 2010 I had a great oportunity to bring together students from London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) with my dancers in Counterpoint Dance courtesy of Claremont and their relationship with The Place. For the first visit I lead both groups in a creative workshop and a technique class so an understanding of each others […]
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