PNEUMATA NEWS!
2008-2010
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ANGELS
Angels giving to Pneumata bring absolute transformation to the lives of young people eagerly training in the performing arts, developing skills for their future careers and bringing real hope. Our students come from incredibly diverse backgrounds. Some are overcoming all odds to make a new future for themselves. They are unbelievably close to each other, their coaches/coordinators and others in Pneumata. In addition, Angels may wish to help further the work of our professional dancers! Whether it's just this once or a regular gift, we thank you with all our hearts for being our Angel x Just press the Angels button at the foot of this page for more information
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAN ON PASSING HIS AUDITION FOR THE BRIT SCHOOL!
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THE AMA-A-A-ZING FUN DAY AND SHOWCASE: IM NOT A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!
We had the best day-with students raising funds towards future shows - including Dawn's Bean Dump, Lads' Leg Wax, lots of great stalls and meeting a massive python and all kinds of beasties! Daring students ate baked pigs' eyeballs, heart, brains, blood worms...urgh! The list is endless! We had a great day and the hall was packed to capacity - thank you to all who came and our stupendous DJ and team. Watch out for our next youth production in London, this autumn and for 'BLITZ.' next year, on the West End, also supported by professional artists
Introducing | PNEUMATA YOUTH DANCE COMPANY, 21-12/PNEUMATA FILMS, London; PNEUMATA PERFORMING ARTS, Canvey Island & SWEENEY TODD
Pneumata Youth Dance Company performed the fantasy version of the edgy and exciting SWEENEY TODD – directed and choreographed by Annette, featuring Clyde as the Angel of Death. Cast members have now also become members of PYDC and Pneumata Performing Arts, Canvey Island. In this exciting version of Sweeney Todd, Pneumata Youth proved to be talented, passionate and comical actors, and achieved great reviews. ST was staged at the spectacular Palace Theatre, Southend – on – Sea, 11 October. (See promo, rehearsal and dress rehearsal pictures and stills in our gallery) Further images to come!
CBBC visited us and three of our students reached the filming stage of auditions, with Lewis reaching the final 25 out of several thousand. Excellent results for a brand new youth company – well done students!!! The students also staged a stunning small showing earlier in the year of their work (see pictures for stills from DVD) and will also be mentored by Clyde in the future. Hannah Franklin and Jack Slater have started at the Brit School following their successful auditions. Jenny Rhodes, James Spilling (West End) and Kelli (Brit School)
BBC1 TV INTERVIEW: SONGS OF PRAISE 2009
Annette was interviewed by Aled Jones, whilst also choreographing Clyde Melville Bain and Claire Talbot, alongside the stunning Rhyddian from X Factor and two other leading artists in the UK industry. (see YouTube)
FILM SHORT
Pneumata helped support a film short on location in Central London, bringing together many recognised people from the industry to help highlight the serious issue of knife crime
ARTS OUT ‘N’ ABOUT!
Workshops have been taking place in several places including in Canterbury for a teachers’ inset day. We’ve held classes in contemporary dance, physical theatre, Bollywood, singing and drama with top coaches/performers from the West End and the highest levels in the industry. Now we are also linked to the Brit School singing teachers, podiatrist Stephen Warren (worked with Darcey Bussell among others), AA’s Centrestage PLUS will continue to run classes, do commissions outside of PYDC as it gets a lot of attention – increasingly, leading TV shows have contacted us. Clyde has also been working Riding Lights and National Youth Theatre in his capacity as movement director/choreographer
WELLA CATWALK IN ROME in ASSOCIATION WITH BULGARI DIAMONDS
Annette choreographed catwalk and product reveal for the world brand launch - Wella in Rome at the stunning Open Colonna, in association with the Bulgari Diamond Exhibition
BUSTER
Annette has been working at Elstree Studios and Suzanne and Ashley were recently filmed at Pineapple in a stunning piece as part of R and D (see the rehearsal pictures). Sadly we have to keep quite a bit of all this a surprise for now – more news later…!
PRIMETIME!
Annette is currently writing an immensely exciting biography - PRIMETIME - of Fred Prime Ronnie Biggs’ ‘kidnapper’. Fred’s involvement with Ronnie and their ‘special relationship’ (Fred became known as ‘The Babysitter’) is just one of the remarkable events of his life including his boxing achievements – as Scots Guards Heavy Weight Boxing Champion reigning for several years, he KO’d Idi Amin, went 7 rounds with Mohammed Ali, sparred with Henry Cooper, was a ring leader in the Scots Guards strike, bizarrely he jumped ship with Gareth Hunt, has a fascinating history with many legendary names in show business including ‘Ollie’ Reed and Richard Burton. He features regularly on the news/documentaries and a two hour documentary has been shown several times recently on 4 and more 4, with audience figures up to 10.4 million (the Lottery gets 3.4 m, X Factor between 8 – 13m, variously).
FURTHER COLLABORATIONS!
Chi 2, (Olympics, Moby, Anastacia etc) are working with Pneumata to create a new show called Tsunami and Clyde Melville Bain is working towards his one man show in Soho featuring Suzanne (filmed) as his wife who is tragically killed. Music includes songs by Stuart Prendred
2007 – 2008 Highlights
As well as working with The Junior Players for BLITZ! In South Derbyshire… ALSO JUDE KELLY: King Cotton with Jude Kelly OBE. Many will remember our work on this major show at The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, Manchester in September 2007. This was dance developed for the aerialists, and the technical development of the team, so we worked on the spectacular drowning and battle scenes as well as the development of character movement. Directed by Jude Kelly OBE, Chair of the Arts, Culture and Education for the Olympic Committee 2012, Artistic Director of the South Bank, written by BAFTA award winning Jimmy McGovern and starring John Henshaw; it has proved a great opportunity for further exciting openings.
Collaboration with Pneumata and PYDC. Annette has been directing and choreographing shows such as The Wizard of Oz and her own composition X-Cite, based on the tale of Romeo and Juliet, all in various venues including known theatres and creating performances across the UK. See also Sweeney Todd above. Pneumata in association with Stuart Arnold (production manager Into the Hoods - Zoo Nation also of Olympic opening ceremony Bejing, George Sampson, Lenny Henry and Ed Byrnes Tour) & with GEM Award Winner. At Fairfield Halls, Croydon, we were filmed by an award winning film maker creating a dance piece specifically for the venue
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