On Monday 7th March 22 Rushey Mead Academy students had the fantastic opportunity to participate in a Hip Hop Dance workshop provided by the Curve with Oliver Andrews from Studio 79 who is on their development programme and Carrie-Anne from Zoonation Dance Company. The workshop was based upon Zoonation’s famous dance performance Into the Hoods which uses Hip Hop to explore the theme of fairy tales and fairy tale characters like Little Red Riding Hood, The Big Bad Wolf and Cinderella. However the Company have added a Hip Hop flavour to the characters so Cinderella is a DJ called ‘Spinderella’. During the workshop students participated in a Hip Hop style warm up and learnt some Hip Hop specific dance moves called ’The Rebok’, ‘the Steve Martin’ and the ‘Kriss Kross’ the students then had the opportunity to work in groups to create their own Hip Hop choreography based upon one of the Characters from the show. Overall the workshop was a great success and gave the students the experience of working with professional artists in a new and different style of dance. Some of the students who took part in the workshop are also going to watch the performance at The Curve on Tuesday 14th March.
‘The workshop was so much fun and has given me lots of ideas for characterisation for BTEC Unit 2 and I am really looking forward to watching the performance at the Curve next week’ Suniti Panchesra