Events

Hey everyone,

Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas break, and aren’t feeling too stressed from revision.

We will be taking part in the University of Sheffield’s Dance Competition. You should all have received an email with details, etc. but just in case, here they are again:

The competition begins at 10.30am so we will be arriving by coach for 9.30am; this means an early start time of about 7.30ish (to be confirmed later). The competition finishes at roughly 5.30pm, then we will be coming back to Leicester (also on the coach). Thus the return time should be about 7.30pm (again – times are estimated at this point). Fourteen Universities are taking part with lots of different dance styles for us to watch and enjoy! Attached is some more information for you to look at.

We have entered a Ballet and Modern dance;

Modern routine
Due to the lack of time we have from now until then we will be doing the same ‘When the sun goes down’ dance. For the people who competed in ‘The Dance Showdown’ please can you let me know if you want to do it, if not I will be looking for replacements. So if you were not in the dance the first time around, please let me know that you’re interested and I can see if a space becomes available!

Ballet routine
We are doing a ballet routine which will be to a beautiful piece of music from the Ghost soundtrack – trust me, it’s stunning! It will be in soft shoes and we are looking for about 8-13 dancers. As this is going to be brand new there will be a fair number of rehearsals; there may be one or two within exam times (as far towards the end as possible – and not if I can avoid it), but these will not take up much time so PLEASE do not let this put you off!!

Cost
The cost of the competition is going to be £10 per dancer; this includes entry into the competition and a complementary t-shirt. We can also take spectators which will be £2.50 each! If you have not already paid a costume hire fee this will be £3 (which lasts for the year) and allows you to wear our hired or owned costumes. The final cost will be transport, which is currently unknown; but we are planning on getting a coach and sharing the cost between all of us! The society will try and subsidise the cost of this as much as possible!

Please email me (on dlt7@le.ac.uk) to let me know if :
A – You are in the modern dance and you want to compete in Sheffield.
B – You are in the modern dance and you do not want to compete in Sheffield.
C - You were not in the modern dance but would be interested in taking a place in the routine if one became available.
D – You want to be in the ballet routine.
E – You don’t want to compete but want to spectate (or you have friends who want to come).
** Please reply ASAP **

*We are also planning on running a social soon after the competition, but we’ll post more details nearer the time*