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18 March, 2024

Dear All,

I just wanted to day hello and to provide some news and comments before too long! I am trying this approach versus the Mailchimp newsletter to see which is easiest.

Studio Swap

 


We had an interesting, enriching and exciting time with the Saturday studio swap for our Spring Term! We hope you enjoyed the experience. We are now reverting to our previous set up for Summer Term which means the following:
Beatrice classes return to St. Peter's Hall
Int/Adv Ballet- 10.30am - 12pm
Pointe Exercise 12.05- 12.20pm
General Level Contemporary Dance- 12.30- 1.30pm
Move into Wellbeing 1.45- 3pm

Down the road at Arts Ed, Studio 210
Beginner Follow-on Ballet 10-11am
Beginner Improvers Ballet 11.05- 12.15pm
Tasters in Beginner Jazz Dance, Contemporary Dance, and Beginner Ballet 12.15 - 1.15pm
Short Beginner Ballet Course - 12.15 -1.15pm 
Johanna Von Salmuth will lead these on a rota with our newest teacher Shiri Hadad joining the roster!
We give Shiri a warm welcome!

Sunday Series- Masterclass- Bennie Bartels

These are going very well and our third one is on Sunday 24 March at Arts Ed from 11am - 12.30pm.
You may pay by using two ticks on your carnet or register and pay on £20 / £15 concs. for a 90 minute class with an International Argentine Tango Teacher & Dancer
Links to do this online:

To sign up to attend as a participant please visit: https://tinyurl.com/366d2phx   and  https://tinyurl.com/3tpdz42t - concessions

I will also gladly welcome people who wish to come and watch the class for £10. Please email me to secure a place on ballet4lifeuk@gmail.com 


The Chiswick Cinema- new partnership- coming full circle


Ballet4life started in January 2004 at the former Rambert Dance Headquarters and now we have teamed up with The Chiswick Cinema to provide our members with some lovely dance related experiences! The first event is a

Special Film Event

We are very excited to reveal that our first special film event with ballet4life.com and The Chiswick Cinema is set for Tuesday 16 April!!!

Details:

Tues 16th April - 14:00 MACMILLAN CELEBRATED [ENCORE]

https://tinyurl.com/4mbm5azs

£18 ticket price to include a complimentary coffee/tea and pastry

How to book in:

You need to please put your name down on our list by emailing us on ballet4lifeuk@gmail.com  by Saturday 13 April.

Then you just jeté on over to the fabulous Cinema - 94 Chiswick High Road, you give your name and make your payment there.

For the coffee/ tea and pastry refreshments, we are working on when we shall enjoy them- before the Encore, at the interval, or afterwards for some Ballet4Lifers socialising and chat about the production! TBC

How exciting is this? Hope to see you there!


New class coming!

Due to the popularity of Kristin Leal's Masterclass last month, we are going to hopefully be able to add this to our timetable on a weekly basis. It is a beautiful and empowering mixture of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, is not geared for Beginners, and might be held on Thursday evenings at AE. 

Speaking of popular demand..



We will bring back the Jazz Dance & Contemporary Dance Tasters on Saturday with Johanna and with Shiri! I am also looking at short series for each going forward in addition to the Beginner Ballet Courses.

Our new partnership with The Chiswick School

We offered a series of beginner Ballet classes this term and we have been invited to return next term.The students were a complete joy to work with! They were committed, focused, worked hard, and retained the material so well. Well done!! Great job also- our B4l Teacher Johanna Von Salmuth!

Fond Farewell
We bid our fond farewells to Rika who had danced with us- forever!!! She and her husband have relocated to Italy so we are exploring some Dance Intensives ideas for Italy... so keep an ear open!


THANKS for the support and good cheer! 

We did not win the Best Health & Wellbeing Business of the Year Award at the West London Business Awards nor the One Dance UK's People's Choice Award, but our hearts were full and we remain grateful for our ability to do what we do and for the hundreds of happy dancers we get to dance with.


Happy nearly Spring! Keep well, keep moving, and hope to see you soon.

Donna 



 #ballet4life #20thanniversary #lovewhatwedo 







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