CSBS dancers sparkle onstage!
We were delighted to stage our first dance displays since 2019, "Everybody Dance Now!"
Due to Covid restrictions, we were unable to stage our annual dance displays in 2020 and 2021, so this year's displays were extra special! Over 500 dancers performed across 5 different dress rehearsals and 5 different shows in the Macrobert Arts Centre. For many of our dancers, it was their first experience of a dance display, which made it very exciting!
Dress Rehearsals...
Our dress rehearsals gave the dancers a chance to experience the bustle of backstage and to perform their routines onstage with final adjustments for spacing and costumes. We had professional technicians operating the lights and sound, including fitting our musical theatre students with personal radio mics, which all added to the adventure! The dancers were helped behind the scenes by our teachers and a team of volunteer chaperones who did a remarkable job of running backstage; we are extremely grateful! We have some galleries of photos from the dress rehearsals on our CSBS Facebook page:
- View a gallery of Linlithgow-Braes Junior dress rehearsal photos
- View a gallery of Linlithgow Main dress rehearsal photos
- View a gallery of Queensferry Junior dress rehearsal photos
- View a gallery of Queensferry Main dress rehearsal photos
- View a gallery of Braes Main dress rehearsal photos
Professional photos from the dress rehearsals will be available to view and purchase soon from Leask Photography. You can view the galleries on the Leask Photography website. If you did not pick up a password card at the displays, please just get in touch with us.
Fabulous performances...
We were so delighted to watch the joy in everyone's performances and to hear the great applause from each audience... Mrs Clark absolutley loved being able to watch one of the shows from the auditorium rather than from backstage in the wings, and was overwhelmed by the whole thing! On our CSBS Facebook page you can view some galleries of photos taken during the performance from the wings by teacher Amanda:
- Linlithgow-Braes Junior Show photos
- Linlithgow Main Show photos
- Queensferry Junior Show photos
- Queensferry Main Show photos
- Braes Main Show photos
Charity collections...
Our programmes were by donation to charity and our Senior students also coordinated a bucket collection after each performance. We raised a total of £543.56 from programme donations and £839.37 in the bucket collections. Thank you for your support; we will keep you updated about which local and national charities and good causes we support with your donations.
More thanks...
We must additional thanks to the following people and companies for their hard work in helping our displays to run professionally, smoothly, and safely, and adding to the sparkle!
- Lighting: Brian and Colin (Sight and Sound Ltd)
- Sound/tech: Saint and Martin (Macrobert Technical team)
- Front of house and box office teams from Macrobert
- Lorraine and the rest of the Stirling Uni cleaning team
- Programme printing: JMK Printing
- Finale t-shirts: Homefront Signs Ltd
- Staff t-shirts: Make Your Marque
- Professional videography: 1StudioVideo
- Professional photography: Leask Photography
- Additional costumes: Dance Costumes for Hire; Costume Source; Camy at Dance Favourite (China)
Please take time to complete our feedback survey for the chance to enter a prize draw to win a full term of dance classes. We are so very proud of all our dancers and teachers for their hard work in staging the displays and and hope you have all enjoyed the experience! We look forward to seeing you at our summer holiday events and then the new term in August. In the meantime, have a well deserved rest!