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Welcome // |
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The Stage Features Tring Park // |
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Welcome to the June E-letter from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Our pupils continue to be exceptionally busy and in addition to all these activities our senior male dancers have just returned from Gothenburg where they have performed alongside dancers from the Swedish Ballet School in Graduation Ball. New in this edition is a mini-feature on a former Tring Park pupil. Former pupils who would like to feature in future E-letters should contact me with career updates and photos.
Best wishes
Miriam Juviler
Marketing Manager
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The UK’s foremost newspaper for the Performing Arts industry focussed on Tring Park in a first-ever in-depth feature on the school and its pupils.
The article included an interview with the Principal, Stefan Anderson and mini case-studies of students Lawrence Libor and Richard Linnell.
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Students Find Personal Managers // |
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Alvin Ailey Dance Company // |
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Following the success of ‘Crazy for You’ at The Shaw Theatre Lucy Martin and Will Bozier have been signed to Global Artists.
Lucy has just been offered a part in ‘Dirty Dancing’ at the Aldwych Theatre and Will is appearing alongside fellow student Jack Wilcox in June in ‘Kerry Ellis and the British Songbook’ – again at The Shaw.
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Postgraduate dancer Joy Animashaun has been offered a coveted Fellowship Scholarship to the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre School in New York on their postgraduate course with the aim of joining the main company at the end of her studies.
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Music Showcase // |
‘Waiting For Godot’ // |
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Tring Park’s new-look Music Showcase took place at the beginning of term; a great opportunity to see pupils performing – often away from their principal vocation.
The public was seated in cabaret style, challenging pre-conceptions about how audiences listen to classical music whilst providing a great atmosphere for the non-classical 2nd half.
For photographs of the evening follow
this link and use ‘Classical’ as the log-in.
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1st Form pupil Richard Linnell was one of two 11-year olds who beat around 200 other hopefuls to join two other boys alternating in the role of ‘Boy’ in Beckett’s famous play.
Richard is performing at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket with Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup.
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Belinda Norman-Butler // |
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Past Pupil News - Layla Ellison - Dancer // |
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Belinda Norman-Butler, committee woman, social activist and former Chair of the Governors of the Arts Educational Trust died in December 2008, aged 100.
Belinda Norman Butler was a huge supporter of Tring Park and also a great advocate of British music and musicians. She founded the English Speaking Union Music Scholarships which were awarded to artists including Sir Simon Rattle and Nigel Kennedy. A longer obituary will appear in the forthcoming School Magazine.
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Each Tring Park E-letter will feature a past pupil. Layla Ellison left Tring Park in 1998 where she studied Dance.
Layla was the Assistant Choreographer/Dancer on the Boyzone Tour in 2009. She has appeared on videos with Alesha Dixon, on the X Factor from 06 – 08, with Take That (Princess Diana Concert) on Kylie Minogue’s 'Chocolate' Video, and on videos with – amongst others - Robbie Williams, Will Young and Paul McCartney. Layla has also appeared on Fashion Shows and ads for T Mobile and the Daily Mail.
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Jack Wilcox was awarded 2nd prize as classical soloist (no first prize was awarded) at the International Dance Competition in Spoleto, Italy. Sam Chung came third and Travis Clausen-Knight came second in the Contemporary Soloist section with his own choreography.
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Pupils Jekaterina Baskakova, Anthony Bell and Jemima Loddy have had their poems published in 'A World of Difference' -a collection of poems from children who come from the Eastern counties of Britain.
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Several of Tring Park’s students appeared alongside the St Petersburg Ballet at the London Coliseum in a performance of Le Bayadère.
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Over 50 vintage vehicles parked up the drive for the Spirit of Dacorum Historic Vehicle Tour in aid of the Dacorum Community Trust ready to be flagged off by the Mayor of Tring, Mr Mike James.
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