Easter Course 2007

“Fun, exciting and challenging.” Particpant

This year’s Easter Course was an exciting new parnership for Northern Ballet Theatre as we teamed up with Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah to deliver a course combining dance and drama.


Taking the book ‘The king Must Die’ by Mary Renault as inspiration for the course, participants explored the story and devised dance and drama pieces to recreate the story in a performance to family and friends.
The participants were split into two age groups and each group worked with a dance artist from NBT and theatre practitioners from the Blahs. The groups devised bull dances, tableaux and short drama sequences to tell the story of the bull dancers from ancient Crete, from their recruitment, through their training and to their successful bull dance.

Dance students had the opportunity to improve their dance skills through daily technique classes, and developed their storytelling skills enabling them to recreate the story in a theatrical way. The performance at the end of the week was performed in the round, and involved the audience in the action, as they became audience members in the bullring.

The highly original performance was full of energy and enthusiasm, and reflected the teamwork and all the hard work the participants had put into it.