Ballet Hoo! - Ballet Changed My Life - 10 years on

[Jan McNulty]

I have just picked this up off BRB's Facebook page.

 

Ten years ago, Channel 4 presented 'Ballet Hoo - Ballet Changed My Life!'. Tomorrow night at 8pm, the brilliant Ballet Hoo graduates are back with their self-created 'Romeo & Juliet - The Meeting'.

Call Birmingham Hippodrome on 0844 3385000 for tickets and more information on concessions.

#culturematters

 

 

 

Archive material from 10 years ago: https://www.brb.org.uk/post/ballet-changed-my-life-ballet-hoo?utm_source=BRB&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=ballethoo250816

 

[Ian Macmillan]

A pity this hasn't been more widely publicised - no sign of it at all during recent daily Links trawls.  And, worryingly, the Hippodrome website says that "Mama Mia" is on there tomorrow night, and I can't see this show mentioned at all.  So, is the theatre just acting as a front for the event elsewhere?  Or I'm just missing something?

 

But is it really 10 years since that series ran?  I can still remember the Lady Capulet, played by a young woman who, if I recall rightly, had seen her mother murdered - if you wanted emotion in a performance, it was truly there as she mourned her slain Tybalt. 

[Jan McNulty]

I've just telephoned the Hippodrome.  The performance is on in the Patrick Centre which I suppose you would call the studio theatre of the Hippodrome.

 

I agree it's a terrible shame that this event has not been publicised better, I would love to have gone.

 

I found the original series incredibly moving.  One of my friends went to the Ballet Hoo! performance and said it was the most moving performance she had ever seen.

[Ian Macmillan]

For anyone who wonders what this was all about, I'd point you at this DanceTabs interview with Desmond Kelly, AD of BRB back in 2006.  Scroll down and you'll find a useful bit of background to what was a risky project:

 

http://dancetabs.com/2012/07/desmond-kelly-artistic-director-elmhurst-and-governor-of-the-royal-ballet-companies/

 

A YouTube item here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5gK4bYlNA

 

And there's some indication of what tomorrow's show may about here:

 

http://www.leapsandbounds.org.uk/home

[Marg S]

I've just telephoned the Hippodrome.  The performance is on in the Patrick Centre which I suppose you would call the studio theatre of the Hippodrome.

 

I agree it's a terrible shame that this event has not been publicised better, I would love to have gone.

 

I found the original series incredibly moving.  One of my friends went to the Ballet Hoo! performance and said it was the most moving performance she had ever seen.

Me too Jan. Why oh why has there never been  a DVD produced?