A ground-breaking project between four local authorities, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Youth At Risk charity resulted in 80 young people who had learned to dance from scratch appearing on stage at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2006 in a full production of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet directed by David Bintley. Nobody had ever used ballet to turn round failing lives before and the stunning results were screened to mass acclaim by Channel 4 Television. This is the project's story.
With a foreword by Sir Christopher Frayling and Lord Phillips.
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
APS Publications
Release
July 15, 2018
Ballet Changed My Life: Ballet Hoo! The Story of the Channel 4 TV Series
A ground-breaking project between four local authorities, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Youth At Risk charity resulted in 80 young people who had learned to dance from scratch appearing on stage at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2006 in a full production of Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet directed by David Bintley. Nobody had ever used ballet to turn round failing lives before and the stunning results were screened to mass acclaim by Channel 4 Television. This is the project's story.
With a foreword by Sir Christopher Frayling and Lord Phillips.