Choreographed and directed by Jackie Hallahan, CDDC will dance to Prokofiev’s dramatic ballet score of “Romeo and Juliet No.2.” Even if readers think they don’t know it, believe me, they do.
CDDC’s director, Jackie Hallahan, comments, “From the beginning this has been an amazing and delightful collaboration with artistic director Rowan Harvey Martin, myself, Canberra Youth Orchestra and Canberra Dance Development Centre all doing our utmost to bring William Shakespeare’s classic story to life through music and dance.”
It’s a chance for full and part time students of Canberra Dance Development Centre to strut their stuff and for orchestra members to perform a work of such depth and power.
It is a unique opportunity for young dancers to perform with an orchestra of 65 members. This will be a wonderful evening of music and dance and is the first of future collaborations.
“Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2” at Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, Saturday, June 23. Bookings to 6247 4714 during business hours or 0404 520 455 after hours. Credit card accepted over the phone. $5 for members of CYM and CDDC and family, $10 for the general public if booked, or $15 at the door.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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