The Big Dance Company Scholarship scheme
 
 
 
The big dance Company is committed to providing high quality, safe and fun classes for dancers, along with great life experiences and high quality performance opportunities.
 
We are aware that due to the current financial climate soem dancers may not be able to reach their full potential due to financial difficulty, therefore we providing a new scholarship scheme to help and encourage dancers reach their full potential.
 
There will be various scholarships available including:
 
 

3 full premier scholarships
This will provide the student with unlimited dance classes with full financial backing for their training.
 
2 half scholarship
This will provide students with up to 50% extra additional training at no extra cost.
 
5 chance to dance
These places will be offered to non bdc members who would like to train but dont have the financial means to join a dance school (by audition only)
 

Your scholarship term will start in January 2011 with a review in July 2011 to finish the school year in December.
Scholarship students are to conduct themselves in a positive, professional, and responsible manner at all times while at BDC. Scholarship students will be required at attend/perform at BDC activities/promotions and basic duties for BDC as needed including office hours/demonstrating, special events and classroom/studio assistance where appropriate for scholarship level and age.
 

What do I do now?
you can click on the link below and fill in an online application form, applicants will be informed by email for an audition/interview.
 
 
 
applications close end September 2010
 
 
 
 https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHNHVVRXZlprVklGSFVyRVVOMzhFZEE6MQ

 

The big dance company performed for the 5th year running at the bbc tent on the Friday and the Saturday and had an amazing weekend. The tent was packed with one in one out and a great audience gave us lots of support and cheers to get us even more energised!!

On stage was Talia harper and dancers Clare and Charlotte and lucy who performed Telephone, boys and girls and Bad boys, Flava took time out of their busy schedule to join us on their own turf and perform shining , saw and recession along with Tricky and Sweet Flava, who are now busy working on their new routines for the World hip hop championships. The dancers who performed in the philippines gave the crowd a powerful performance of Hold on, that is dedicated to our beautiful Adam who we sadly lost to cancer last year.

In between performances we all enjoyed stuffing our faces with treats and freebies and the kids managed to come back covered head to toe in stickers!!

This year we had a stand promoting our summer school in August where over 400 people entered to win two free places and goodies from the Flava stand.

We had a fantastic day, and thank you to racheal and Chris a.k.a STEVE for all our great shots of the day .#

 

The Big Dance Company Safe back from the Philippines with new international partnerships and Inspired to help Charity.   Hot of the heels of their return from Los Angles at the Dance Excellence awards, where they picked up 5 first places with awards of excellence with performances at Disneyland and Long beach theatre California. The big dance company were selected out of the UK to represent in England at the 2nd Philippine dance exchange held in Roxas City April 14th to 21st, but ended up stranded with 8 dancers out there until the 1st May due to the volcanic eruption.   The Big dance company England team selected by Fiona Richardson included Kyle Richardson 20, Jack Britten 21, Jen Haley 26, Hannah Short 19, Aimee Mitchell 13, Abbie Hoole Jackson 15,and Sophie Walke 17.           The team performed in front of 50,000 people on the opening night at the stadium and spent the week, on outreach tours performing for poverty stricken areas of the Philippines and teaching workshops to over 1,000 people at the dance exchange. The big dance company were voted as the favourite workshop from the workshop attendees out of 32 countries participating a huge honour for the dance company, and were invited to lead the dance at the bay where over a 1000 dancers met at 5am on the beach for united dance which followed by a beach clean up shared by all the dancers from all over the world.   The event was organised by NCCA which aims to bring different cultures together from all over the world through dance including Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, USA, China and Malaysia and it certainly done that. All of our dancers discovered new cultures and many new friends from all over the world, we shared dance styles, teaching methods, new skills and cultures.         We were invited for TV and radio interviews during our time there and held workshops at the world famous Halli Cruz school of Ballet, awarded best Ballet School in the whole of Asia. We performed for one night in beautiful Borocay, with the whitest sand in the world; we performed under the moonlight on a stage on the beach.   We were due to leave the Philippines on the 21st April, and discovered that there had been an eruption; we had no idea how bad it was as we had no television on radio contact. I called my husband Ben and was told our flight was cancelled until the 4th May!! We were very distressed; I was concerned that I had not only children at home that would be without a teacher but young children with me that needed to get home to their families. KLM would not help after spending 5 hours at the office in Manilla and no help from our insurance. We were terrified and had no idea what we were going to do. Then we had a call from Mrs Cruz, the lady who runs the Halli Cruz Ballet School, she assured us not to be afraid and put us up in the hotel for the night while she thought what to do. By the Morning Mrs Cruz had organised an apartment in Manilla for us to stay in together, she covered all expenses for our 10 days in Manilla, she organised a breathtaking schedule for us to make sure that we made the most of our time there. They welcomed us into their dance school like family and made us so happy and welcomed that my dancers did not want to come home!! We spent time working with Charity pcf, helping families on the dumpsite in Manilla, which was very upsetting but opened our eyes to how very lucky we are in the UK, and how we can help by just being there and giving these children happy memories, we spent time having fun with them and teaching them dance and then we performed for them, we plan now to set up a schemes here to help them and plan to visit again next year when we return to the Philippines. We were shocked to see the conditions that these families live in , please check out www.pcf.org           We spent a few days teaching hip hop and lyrical at Mrs Cruz School which was an honour, and we have been invited to go back next year to work with the school again. The school put on a special leaving party for us, presenting us with beautiful banners and birthday cakes for Kyle and Jen who had their birthdays during our extended stay.   We truly fell in love with the Philippines and the warm hospitipal people in it. Mrs Cruz has accepted an invitation to come to England next year and we will perform a big show together in the Hall for Cornwall so we hope that we can repay her in hospitality as she truly saved us from what could have potentially been a disaster for our dancers and myself.   We would like to extend our thanks to the NCCA for inviting us to such an inspirational festival and to all of the beautiful people in the Philippines, to Mrs Cruz who saved us from a potential disaster and to all my amazing students who represented the UK, you are beautiful amazing people and will grow even more from such an inspiring event. A huge thank you to my husband Ben who held the School together whilst I was away and to my amazing teachers who ensured the timetable kept going and the children continued having quality classes. A big thank you to the Lugger hotel, Maria Hocking, the Barn Nightclub, the Playzone St ives, everyone who bought raffle tickets and who donated prizes, you made this trip possible        

wow we have been so busy I have not had time to get any news on here for you of our recents successes!

This year we have had great results at the UDO hip hop championships , the British championships in February at Brean sands, Sweet Flava won the u18 int and Vintage punk runners up in adult n/c, cand Flava came 4th in Adult advanced and lots of great solo and pairs results and at the world hip hiop championships, held at Blackpool Winter gardens in August we saw sweet flava winning u18 int , Tricky 4th u14n/c and Vintage punk 4th ad n/c. Flava then performed in the Micheal Jackson Tribute show the following night in the arena. The welsh championships Tricky won under 14 nc, and sweet flava runners up u18 adv and many dancers taking home 1st place in solos and doubles!

Most recently the south west championships in Plymouth, we had a great day with Sweet flava winning u18 adv and tricky finishing 2nd in u14 int and Sweet dreams came 2nd their frist time in under 10 newcomer (well done) we had loads of wins in solos and doubles and finished of with an early night for a change.

we are now busy training hard for the british championships in feb 2010. more news and results soon.