Come and meet us at the barre! This week Year 4 and Year 5 were lucky enough to take part in a worskhop led by Northern Ballet. The company were on the look out for new talent to join their ballet school and decided Harewood would be a great place to start their search!
The children were taken through the different positions and many of the exercises that ballet dancers have to practise everyday. We soon discovered just how much strength and control is needed to be a great dancer.
Cara and Yasmin taught us how to use the dancers technique of 'spotting' so that we didn't get dizzy or lose our balance when we repeated our turns.
The ladies were impressed with our flexibility and our strength.
Although we were good, our arabesques weren't anywhere near as impressive as Cara's!
But we gave it our best shot!
At the end of the session some of the children who had particularly impressed Cara and Yasmin were invited to take part in five free workshops at Northern Ballet in the new year. This is an incredible opportunity which the children were very keen to take up.
Let's hope we have our very own Harewood Billy Elliott very soon!
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