February 12, 2018
In January Gail and Ian Parmel, along with Education Officer Iona Waite addressed the 30th Anniversary conference of the International Association of Blacks in Dance in Los Angeles, a huge honour and a clear recognition of the achievements of ACE as a professional and educational Company over its 21-year history. More than just one of […]
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Iona Waite began attending dance classes at her local community centre at the age of 9; a year later she joined ACE Youth and has been an integral member of the company ever since. Following a foundation course at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, she went on to achieve a BA Hons at the […]
View Full Article >Posted on January 16, 2018
Tom started his training at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, completing a BPA(Hons) and postgraduate course with Verve. During his freelance career Tom has worked and performed internationally for companies such as 2Faced Dance Company, The Middleton Corpus and Southpaw Dance Company. Coming from a background of breakdancing Tom also continues to perform commercial […]
View Full Article >Posted on January 16, 2018
Christopher Radford is originally from Birmingham and started dancing as a member of ACE dance and music’s youth company, under the direction of Gail and Ian Parmel. He continued on to Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, in which he completed the foundation and degree course receiving first class honours. After graduating in 2014 […]
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Originally from Manchester, Kayleigh trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance graduating with a First class Honours in 2013, also being awarded the performer of the year. She then went onto train with Verve ‘14 with choreography by Gemma Nixon & Jonathan Goddard, Lea Anderson, Ben Duke and Jamaal Burkmar. As a performer Kayleigh […]
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Sorna Condevaux Ndoye is 20 and from Paris, France. She began practising karate in 2003 and by 2012 earned both a black belt and a Silver medal at the French Karate Championships. Shortly after this, Sorna decided to dance and started her training in Paris at the IFPRO Rick Odums studying jazz, Horton, Graham and ballet. […]
View Full Article >January 4, 2018
The Dancing in Aston and Newtown with ACE project, more affectionately known as DIANNA enters 2018 having brought its unique introductory and progressive programme of dance and music to 485 children aged 8-16 across north Birmingham, bringing the power of dance directly into schools during term time at a time when timetabled dance is under […]
View Full Article >Posted on December 19, 2017
Simone Frederick Scacchetti, born in Turin in 1993, started his first studies at the school “IL GABBIANO espressione in movimento” (2000-2010) under the direction of Franca Pagliassotto and Erika Tiso. In September 2010 he moved his studies to Switzerland to attend the professional academy of “Ecole-Atelier Maurice Béjart” directed by Michelle Gascard. There he studied classic and modern […]
View Full Article >December 15, 2017
Kassichana was born in South East London. She graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2017 where she worked with Katja Heitmann, Hannes Langolf and Joan Cleville. In 2016 Kassichana was an apprentice for Carlos Pons Guerra – DeNada Dance Theatre, performing in the piece ‘Mariposa’. Kassichana has worked with Jamaal Burkmar Dance, […]
View Full Article >December 15, 2017
ACE Education Officer and Company dancer Iona Waite will be winging her way across the Atlantic in January to attend the prestigious International Association of Blacks in Dance conference taking place in Los Angeles at the end of that month. Thanks to one the first Developing Practice grants to be awarded by the Birmingham Dance […]
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