RISE UP24 REMASTERED AT CONTACT THEATRE MCR
OMG! Where to start?! There’s simply not enough superlatives to describe this weekend & how we are feeling right now, but it’s safe to say our hearts are full 💚💙 We’re really feeling the love & appreciate & hold dear all your wonderful feedback from an epic weekend but a production of this magnitude doesn’t happen without a great deal of support from the best dance family in this business we call show 🎭 To be in our 51st year of dancelife & still be producing students & performances
That’s a Wrap on the HSD 22/23 Season
That’s a wrap! The first half of our 50th year has most certainly been a memorable one filled with fantastic opportunities, achievements & as always good vibes plus proudly maintaining our 100% examination pass rate. Three NATD exam sessions & numerous exam presentations, workshops & Pop Ups galore, celebrating A-levels & GCSES coming to an end, fund raising, engagements new babies new houses new jobs, new Barre 73-Espresso Yourself, NATD Scholarship Heats, Birmingham Hippodrome performances with Chance2Dance, NBS Summer School, BBC Breakfast, TDCI Scholarship Final, celebrating
Spreading their wings
It’s been a very special end to our term, celebrating our dance family & HSDers that now prepare to spread their wings & start a new chapter at various universities & theatre schools across the country. We have many years of memories to treasure & we shall miss them terribly but know that they will go on to succeed in all that they do. Your HSD73 family’s love & support goes with you & we can’t wait to see what you go on to achieve, the world is
Hip Hop Born 73′, So were we…HSD
About Friday 11th August… Our HSD73 family celebrated Hip Hops 50th birthday by sharing The Five Pillars of Hip Hop with our HSD Funkateers. 1/ Breaking (The dance) 2/ Writing (Graffiti) 3/ Emceeing (The wordsmith/rapper) 4/ Dj’ing (The controller of the party) 5/ Knowledge (Understanding the elements of the Hip Hop culture) The philosophy of true Hip Hop culture is PEACE, LOVE, UNITY & HAVING FUN and that’s exactly what our HSDers brought to HQ led by our very own lover of all things Hip Hop Culture, our Funk guru, the legend
RISING UP AGAIN!
Yet another special weekend for the memory box. Each & every student danced & performed to their best, the dance fam team were as always the greatest support network in this business we call show & we continue to be so very grateful & proud of our 49 year old school of dance. To be approaching our Golden Anniversary & still be thriving as we are is truly humbling… what an achievement for a small dance community & family business. We’re beaming with pride & cannot wait to see what
NATD Theatrical Scholarship Finals – Birmingham
WHAT A DAY!!! We could not be prouder of our girls at the NATD Theatrical Scholarship Finals in Birmingham yesterday. Rosie Rowson & Lucy Williams you represented your HSD73 family with grace & with respect for your peers, showing pure natural joy for your art plus your work ethic & time management leading up to this moment has been impeccable. Thank you to the Rowson & Williams families for your constant support for the school & backing for the girls to be a part of this event & opportunity. Both Lucy
RISE UP 22 LIVE
If Carlsberg did weekends… Long post alert What a weekend, what an experience, what a dance family! This time last week we finally had the opportunity to dance & perform as a whole school together & what a blessing it has been to see each of our students shine so brightly. A rollercoaster of emotions that has left us reeling, bursting with pride & completely exhausted but it was SOOOOOOOO worth it! So much so that on November 19th & 20th we’re going to return to the
Creative Contemporary
Creative Contemporary Choreography with Parent Performance Friday 14th June (5 Weeks) 7.15 til 8.15pm Available for Grade 2’s Get your creative ?‘s flowing with this introduction into the world of choreography led by your HSD teachers. We’ll start you off with a Miss S spesh contemporary combo & then guide you on how to continue this with your own unique flavour using different styles of music, props & emotions through choreographic techniques. It's not just about the dance. Choreography projects have proven to help our HSDers to brainstorm and exercise their creativity,
ALL NEW Shellieschainements
RAG 'N' BONE MAN TRIPLE BILL Monday 29th April, Monday 13th April, Monday 20th May Cost: £12 for the three weeks This innovative class will now take the form of a Pop Up to give all Grade 5/6 & Vocational Ballet students the opportunity to enjoy a free, more informal & creative approach to the ballet class plus a chance to develop artistry, performance skills & confidence. We will be starting this ALL NEW Shellieschainements class with a Triple Bill (3 weeks) of Rag ‘n’ Bone Mans ‘Human’ & then moving forward with