Our Activity Week, held at our Waterfoot Centre, will run from Monday 16 August - Friday 20 August 2010 inclusive, 9am - 4pm. Children can be dropped off any time between 8 and 9am where they can take advantage of our ‘Breakfast Club’! This facility is included in the daily / weekly fee. Also available is our ‘DVD & Games Club’ which will run from 4pm - 6pm, Monday to Thursday. This will be charged at £2 per hour and can be paid on the day to suit you. Ideal for working parents!

WHAT WILL WE DO?
All sorts! Sessions include bug hunt, face painting, tee shirt making, treasure hunt, picnics, arts and crafts, talent show, plus a full day trip to Blackpool Zoo on Friday 20 August. Certificates, prizes and other incentives will be on offer all week!!

WHO CAN JOIN?
All children aged 5+ years. Open to all RDDC pupils, family and their friends. Groups will be subdivided according to age.

HOW MUCH?
Prices are, for the third year, unchanged! If you are booking for the FULL WEEK £99 - a saving of £11! A 20% discount on this full weekly fee is also available for siblings. Unfortunately we cannot offer discount on daily fees.

PER DAY fees are £20 Monday - Thursday; £30 Friday (returning to RDDC at approximately 6pm).

Breakfast is included in the daily fee although you do not have to come for breakfast if you don’t want to! DVD & Games club is charged at £2 per hour and is available Monday - Thursday, 4 - 6pm. This will be payable on the day. You can pay by cash, cheque or credit / debit card. These fees include all activities, admission, transport and material costs.

PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER SCHOOL
WHEN & WHERE?
Our popular Summer School is to be held at RDDC Waterfoot, Monday 23 - Friday 27 August 2010, inclusive. Children can be dropped off any time between 8am - 9am where they can take advantage of our ‘Breakfast Club’! This facility is included in the daily / weekly fee. Also available is our ‘DVD and Games Club’ which will run from 4pm - 6pm Monday to Friday. This will be charged at £2 per hour and can be paid on the day. Ideal for working parents!!

WHAT WILL WE DO?
The Best of the Musicals! will be our workshop theme for the week including all the favourites from Annie, Oliver, Mary Poppins, Aladdin and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!! culminating in a show for family and friends on Friday 27 August at 2.45pm at RDDC Waterfoot. No experience in dance and / or drama is necessary - all you need is lots of enthusiasm!!
Following on from last year’s successful trip to the theatre , on Wednesday 25 August we will be taking in a matinee performance with full details nearer the time.

WHO CAN JOIN?
All children aged 5+ years. Open to all RDDC pupils, family and their friends. Groups will be subdivided according to age.

HOW MUCH?
Prices for the third year remain unchanged! If you are booking for the FULL WEEK £99, a saving of £11! A 20% discount for siblings is available on this full weekly fee. Unfortunately we cannot offer discount on daily fees.

PER DAY fees are £20 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; £30 Wednesday (returning to RDDC at approximately 5pm)

Breakfast is included in the daily fee although you do not have to attend if you don’t want to! DVD & Games club is charged at £2 per hour and is available Monday - Friday 4pm - 6pm. This DVD & Games Club fee will be payable on the day. You can pay by cash, cheque, credit or debit card. These fees include all activities, admission, transport and material costs.

Ramsbottom Annual Show 2010

Lorna Savory, Phoebe Spencer Hall, Steffi Armor, Curtis Blanchard Lewis & Sophie Duncan who recently starred in a full scale production of Giselle for English Youth Ballet.

English Youth Ballet produce full length classical ballets in regional theatres all over the Uk in order to give young dancers outside London the opportunity to perform within a professional setting. Professional dancers perfrom the lead roles accompanied by the cast of young dancers. RDDC are very proud to have had 5 students cast in roles in this production. It is very rare for so many dancers from the same centre to be cast from the hundreds that originally audition.

Lorna Savory age 15 was cast as a soloist (very prestigious!) in the part of Giselles friend in Act 1 then the choreographers were so impressed with her that they cast her in a second role (very rare!) for Act 2 as a 'Willis' who is a young woman jilted in love who rises from her grave to take revenge on any man who crosses her path! You have been warned!
Steffi Armor, Sophie Duncan are cast in the role of parlour maids (high profile roles for their age and experience); Curtis Blanchard Lewis as one of the children and Phoebe Spencer Hall as a villager. All 5 have train at RDDC in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Street, Musical Theatre and Acting and have done so from an early age! Well done girls & boys we are all very proud of you.

News just in! Sophie Duncan has recently been successful at English Youth Ballets Nottingham auditions for the Senior cast Fantastic news for all concerned! Look out for more details on Sophies' blosssoming ballet career coming soon!

Waterloo Road
Many teenage members of RDDC Management Agency recently had the opportunity to film with the cast from BBC 1 hit school drama Waterloo Road. Everyone had a fabulous time and had the chance to meet some famous faces from the hit show. Ben Davies who plays new character Ronan and Lucien Laviscount formerly of Coronation Street proved extremely popular! Everyone is now looking forward to when the programme restarts at the end of the month to capture a glimpse of what it is like to be on television. This is great news for everyone at RDDC Management Agency and no doubt will be the start of many television performances for many of our young actors. If you want to know more about how to join our blossoming ageny just give us a call on 01706 211161 or email rddc@btinternet.com

Festival
Students from Rossendale Dance and Drama Centre competed at Burnley Speech and Drama Festival and were extremely successful being placed in many classes, such as solo drama, improvisation, verse, prose reading, bible reading, mime and group drama. Jemma Chrimes teacher at RDDC commented, “The children were fantastic and really enjoyed the day.” All 31 competitors from Rossendale Dance and Drama Centre in Waterfoot and at Ramsbottom train on a weekly bases to improve skills such as confidence, speech, and public speaking. For more information on these events and classes that we have ongoing throughout the year RDDC just give us a call on 01706 211161 or email rddc@btinternet.com

Phoebe Spencer - Hall and Lorna Savory both won coveted places in EYB’s production of The Nutcracker performed in Halifax in July. This was Lorna’s fourth successive year with the company whose lead roles are danced by professionals. Phoebe, 9, was dancing in her first production with EYB - a superb achievement for one so young. Previous productions have been Swan Lake and Coppelia.

Helen Mitchell
Helen successfully auditioned for the renowned Hammond School, Chester. She will begin her further 3 year training for a Diploma in Professional Dance and Musical Theatre in September 2009.
Hammond, founded in 1917, is one of only 9 schools in the country to receive bursary funding for talented children, regardless of background. Helen is one of these children. So impressed were the panel that they offered her a bursary to train with the school full time. She will join a thriving centre of excellence which has recently opened a new Performing Art Centre housing dance and drama studios as well as a 400 seat theatre.

Helen, 16, an RDDC pupil of just twelve months, studies a wide range of dance and musical theatre at the Ramsbottom Centre. Her success has been particularly special as she has risen to the challenge of preparing herself for audition in a relatively short space of time . Alison Marlow her teacher commented, “Helen is a very talented performer. She has achieved so much in the last twelve months. She has developed her singing, dance and drama skills beyond recognition and we are all extremely proud of her achievement. We all wish her every success.”

Group of the Year Teams
Well done to all 3 of our GOTY teams at this years' National Theatre Group of the Year competition. Each team enjoyed success in this event and RDDC was pleased (although a little disappointed) to be placed 2nd! A huge thank you to dedicated staff, team members and extremely supportive parents!

Louise Hocking
Louise recently appeared in Birmingham Royal Ballets' production of Petrushka at The Lowry, Salford. This was a superb opportunity for her to dance with a well known and highly regarded professional company on one of the largest stages in the North West. Louise was also placed as a finalist in the UKA's National Theatre Scholarships 2008. Truly an outstanding year for her!

National Youth Theatre
Well done to Thomas Kelly who successfully auditioned for the National Youth Theatre. Every year thousands of young actors audition for a place at the NYT and the overwhelming majority are disappointed. But not Thomas Kelly, who, at the first attempt, impressed NYT and joins the ranks of other RDDC pupils - Danny Gray, Beth Zarkhosh and Alex Marlow - as NYT members. Thomas will continue to train at RDDC, but will spend 2 weeks at the NYT Easter 2010 school in London. Well done.

The Sound of Music
Chris Marlow is to join the UK Tour of The Sound of Music, starring Connie Fisher. Do you remember the hit BBC programme How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? which searched for a new Maria to star in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Sound of Music at the London Palladium? After a sell - out London run the show is now on a UK tour and Chris will be joining it for the northern dates, a month each in Bradford (Alhambra Theatre, September 2009) and Manchester (Palace Theatre, December 2009/January 2010) as the children's cast tutor.

Chris will work with the 3 teams of children who alternate to play the Von Trapp children in this hit musical and commented, "I'm delighted to be joining the show which has an outstanding team of performers and technicians. Come along and see it while you can!"

RDDC Management
July 2009 saw the opening of another exciting phase in RDDC's history - welcome to RDDC Management, the newly created agency department set up to represent our talented RDDC performers. Every week we receive casting briefs for television, film and theatre roles which could be suitable for you. If you are interested in joining RDDC Management and would like more details please click here.

BRITAINS’ GOT TALENT
Did you see our tap team, Instinct, on Britain’s Got Talent, the top ITV Talent Show? We battled through 2 regional auditions in Manchester with the judging panel of Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell and then travelled to London’s Café Royal and Shaftesbury Theatre, for the boot camp to select the final contenders for the televised shows.

Alas, we did not make it to the televised final but we were popular enough to be given plenty of air time!
Over 20,000 acts auditioned for BGT and we reached the final 177. The dancers can be justifiably proud of their achievements. Well done girls!