KNT Danceworks 10th Anniversary Gala

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I am very proud to have danced in KNT Pre-Intermediate Class's contribution to KNT's Tenth Anniversary Gala which took place at the Dancehouose Theatre on 4 May 2019.  I can't say that my performance greatly enhanced the show.  I am horrified to find that I was stooped, bearlike and at least half a second behind the others but then I am over 70. At least I did not trip up and I was more or less in the right place at the right time.

It was a wonderful evening.  I have been training at KNT for nearly 5 years and have met some lovely people.  Several of them have helped me set up Powerhouse Ballet.  My KNT classmates, Katie and Bo, took part in the company's debut performance of Terence Etheridge's beautiful ballet Aria together with other good friends from Yorkshire and North Wales.  Powerhouse Ballet were KNT's only guest artists.  I watched their show with Karen Sant, principal of KNT, from the top of the auditorium. They were brilliant.  I was delighted with them all.  I think Karen was too.

Every August, Karen organizes something special for her students,  This year it is a Day of Dance with guest teachers in ballet and other styles of dance.  I attended it last year as well as similar events at Christmas and Easter.  I can't recommend the event too highly.   It takes place between 10:00 and 16:00 on the 10 Aug 2019.  Places fill very quickly but Karen may still be able to squeeze you into a class if you contact her through Facebook.

In other years Karen has organized choreography intensives through which I met such brilliant teachers as Jane Tucker of Northern Ballet and Martin Dutton of the Hammond.  Over the last 50 years, I have seen Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Coppelia and La Bayadere by the world's leading companies with  Fonteyn, Nureyev, Sibley, Dowell, Makhateli, Camargo, Mukhamedov, Parish and Tereshkina in the leading roles.  I learned far more about those ballets from attempting cygnets, the bronze idol or the snowflakes from Jane or Martin than I had in a lifetime of ballet going.

There are classes at the Dancehouse studios on Oxford Road in Manchester most days a week.   The timetable can be consulted here.