A brief outline of the plan to further my skills as a dancer, taking advantage of the opportunity given to me by the Gold Arts Award. I will strive to enhance my skills in the field of choreography and teaching by training 26 girls with one co-captain and coordinating them so that they will be able to perform a medley in an organised Dance and Drama Showcase in February

We chat with Laura Simpson, the Education and Schools Engagement Coordinator for Burnley Youth Theatre about workshops, Arts Award and what goes on behind the scenes. 

Brighter Sound’s Marketing Assistant Joe Clegg reviews Stealing Sheep’s Wow Machine, the penultimate event in The Hexagon Experiment, inspired by Delia Derbyshire.

We catch up with Jessica from Formby High School about her experience of completing her Gold Arts Award in dance.

For a dance show held by a group of students, I was happily surprised by the quality of their show and I truly felt as though I was experiencing dances from "all around the world".

Me and my Girl is currently running at Chichester Festival Theatre until 25th August 2018. Starring Matt Lucas, Caroline Quentine, Clive Rowe and Alex Young, it is a valuable piece of onstage magic, guaranteed to take the whole theatre on a roller-coaster of imagination, emotion and just plain fun!

A deceptively slow start aids the tension built up through an incredible show of dance, physical theatre & circus skills that at times meant the audience didn’t know whether to clap in amazement or stay silent in fear of breaking the concentration.

Dali’s Guest is an engaging collaboration of real life stories, dance, music and visual art inspired by the effects of cancer on the body and Surrealist visual art.

‘Like a rave version of The Masons’, Evening Standard 

MK ULTRA will blow your mind. Be dazzled by bright lights, superhuman dancing and pounding trap music as choreographer Rosie Kay and filmmaker Adam Curtis collaborate to create a bold commentary on the rise of conspiracy. 

As millions of young people turn away from established political systems, MK ULTRA looks at conspiracy and myth within popular culture and ideas about who really is in control. Taking its inspiration from the CIA code for the real LSD-fuelled brainwashing experiments by the US Military, MK ULTRA shines a light on the Illuminati and temptations to cross to the dark side. 

Top tips from leading dance critics on how to review dance performances.

"Go to bed and it'll be alright in the morning"

The production is about the teachings of Kung-fu disciplines through the Shaolin Monks beliefs, and the relation they have towards the Western world. It highlights their history and contrasting ways in that they deal with the world. The choreographer reflects the monks lives through each part of the physical setting as well as his choice of movement styles.