College students excel in dance production
Posted on Monday 17 December 2007
The College Dance Company performs Matthew Bourne's adaptation of Nutcracker!
Spectacular Dance interpretation of Nutcracker!
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Students at Farnborough Sixth Form College delighted packed audiences in the College’s Prospect Theatre last week with a spectacular dance production of Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!, in a brilliant interpretation of the traditional Christmas production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece.
Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from a hilariously bleak Christmas Eve at an orphanage, through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland. Bourne’s choreography was adapted for the College students by Dance tutors, Sally Allsford and Emily Burke. Throughout, the dancing was dynamic and sensitive but it was also the acting and sense of comedy and timing that made the evening so magical.
Head of Dance, Sally Allsford said, “This was one of the most ambitious pieces we have attempted and the large company of 60 dancers have been working and rehearsing on Wednesday afternoons as part of our enrichment programme. They have been a magnificent troupe and the performance has been exciting and exhilarating for us all.”
Speaking to the students after the performance, College Principal Dr John Guy said, “I am not sure whether you realise just how outstanding your performance has been. As an audience we have been entranced by your dancing and by your interpretation of characters – it has been a perfect Christmas treat for young and old!”
