If you would like your own Dance Dynamics mask, please phone and order one at Little Cherub.

Remember to tell Anthoula which studio you are from.

Her number is 082 296 7417.

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Exciting News From The AIDT

VIRTUAL MEDAL TESTS

This is another option in case we can’t do exams at the end of the year.

ENTRIES

One Virtual Medal Session Request per studio.
Entry Fee = R 295 / $39 / € 39 (Namibia & Zimbabwe to enter under SA)
All videos to be submitted together as ONE entry, by the teacher, preferably
via YouTube.

Please add a label with the candidate’s name and medal to each video and candidates should announce their name and medal at the beginning of the video.

Videos may be filmed on good quality camera/phone, in the candidate’s own home – no edited videos will be examined.

MUSIC
GROOMING & UNIFORM RESULTS

Teacher’s choice of music
As for exams (as neatly groomed as possible)
Lack of space will be taken into consideration, but candidates’ must dance to the best of their ability.

Reports and Certificates will be emailed to Teacher – please note that this can take two to three weeks after submission. Medals will follow once the Head Office is open.

Modern and Hip Hop

This is the work you will need to know from the syllabus if you want to enter for the medal.

Ballet – at Teacher’s discretion

Modern Dance
Set floor combination, one of the dance combinations, and a dance.

Urban Hip Hop
Any two set combinations and a dance.

Lockdown Challenge
Modern Dance and Urban Hip Hop

Teacher to submit One entry with all candidates for the Grade Lockdown
Challenge. Dancers to dress as they would for an exam.

Entry Fee = R 100 / $10 / €10 (Namibia and Zimbabwe to enter under SA)
All videos to be submitted together as ONE entry, by the teacher, preferably
via YouTube set to private.

Exciting exposure opportunities plus other dance related prizes. Winners to be announced towards the end of June

Please add a label with the candidate’s name and grade to each video and
candidates should announce their name and grade at the beginning of the video.
Videos may be filmed on good quality camera/phone, in the candidate’s own home – no edited videos will be examined.
Candidates may enter for the exam they are presently in or the previous exam if they have not completed the required work.

Format: For Grades 1 to Final Grade – Warmup, Arms and Co-ordination, Combination

For Prelims – Centre Practice and both dance combinations.

Pre Grade Hip Hop: Stepping and New School Hip Hop

Intermediate 1: Popping and Hip Hop

Format Majors: Candidates will be sent a piece of choreography to learn, which they must film and submit

Closing date for the lockdown challenge is the 15th of June 2020

With Festival fast approaching, we would like to wish all our dancers the best of luck with both their solo’s and their groups.

Here are some picks of our Dancing in the Rain Group and our Birds of a Feather Group

Dance Dynamics is proud of our dancers Marie Louise Strydom and Taylor Wilson (not pictured below) who have been chosen to play leading roles in High School Musical Jnr which will be staged by Sunridge Park Primary School from the 17th to the 19th of July 2019.

Other dancers taking part include Anine Ehlers and Lize-Maree de Jongh.

I am sure this show is going to be a whole lot of fun, so we hope to see you all supporting them by going to watch the show.

Well done to all our brave dancers who danced their exams on the 1st and 2nd of June 2019. Our examiner this year was Veronique Vleghert.

The dancers all enjoyed their exams and here are a few photo’s of the event.

Little Cherub dancewear shop recently asked all the studios for two models from each studio to do a photo shoot for their shop.

Well done to Mikayla-leigh Lombard and Jocelyn Venables for representing our studio so prettily.

A few of our dancers took part in Talent Africa 2019.

It was a busy few days trying to juggle everything between teaching and being at the Opera House, but in all, it was a great experience.

Well done to the following students who received gold awards.

Marie Louise Strydom

Kaitlynne Horne

Ashleigh Maling Nel

Taylor Wilson

Chantelle Els

Shaugneen Robertson

Amber Freeman

Angelique Jansen

Anri de Beer

Amy Ward

Einon Doubell

Bea-ne Schoeman

Elizma Ferreira

Lize van Staden

Katelyn Papenfus

Davina Naidoo

Karla van Rooyen

Mikayla-leigh Lombard

Mikayla-leigh Lombard also got an award for being one of the top ten junior dancers at Talent Africa.

Amber Freeman got an award for being one of the top ten senior dancers at Talent Africa.

On Monday evening the 25th of March, we were lucky enough to have an Alexander Technique workshop hosted in our studio for our senior ballet pupils.

Bradley van Heerden, who is a senior artist at Cape Town City Ballet kindly lent us his services and he showed us how they strengthen the dancers at Cape Town City Ballet.

The class was tough and even the teachers took part.