Our Second Cecchetti Students and Teachers Convention was held during May half-term at Devon Dance Centre. It was a pleasure to have Cara Drower and Bethany Kingsley-Garner teaching and what a wonderful learning experience we all had.
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Cecchetti Day 2024
Taken from the ISTD website Cecchetti Day 2024 Jacqueline Lewis, ISTD Cecchetti Classical Ballet Faculty Committee member tells us about an inspiring day of dance at Cecchetti Day 2024. It was wonderful to see so many Cecchetti students and teachers from across Europe attending Cecchetti Day this year at The Royal Ballet School on Sunday 21 April....
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Spring into Dance 2024
Devon Dance Centre was proud to present our performance of “Spring into Dance” in aid of the Children’s Society on Saturday 23rd March 2024. All of our students at Devon Dance Centre took part in the fundraising event, and the venue, St Mary the Virgin Church, was full. We had Mermaids, Beetles and Bugs, Teddy...
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Shannon Lewis
Shannon started dancing at the age of 7. studying Cecchetti Classical Ballet. She has received many awards, including the musicality award in the Mabel Ryan (2018), Scholorships to the Tring Park Cecchetti Summer School (2018, 2019) The Felicity Jaffe Shield for the most Expressive Solo (2022), was awarded a place at the Ateneo Danza International...
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Bethany Kingsley-Garner
Bethany Kingsley-Garner was born in Devon, England and trained in the Cecchetti method with Monica Furneux and was a Junior Mabel Ryan Award Winner before attending the Royal Ballet School at age 11 and graduated with Honours in 2007. In 2016 she was nominated by the Critics Circle for Outstanding Classical Performance. In addition to...
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Bethany Kingsley-Garner
This week, we were honoured to have Bethany Kingsley-Garner join us for our Intermediate Cecchetti Ballet Class. Bethany was trained at White Lodge, before moving to Scotland to become a Principal Dancer with the Scottish Ballet.