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DANCE & DRAMA

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alongside major performance projects. From stage
Tea, Dance and Drama events combat with swords, bats, and more, to detailed Opposite: Lower Sixth Tamara
performs The Sugar Plum Fairy
Each term, students from across the Dance and work on voice – exploring accents, projection, in The Nutcracker Dance Show
Drama programme share their work – and some and expression – students have developed key 01 Year 11 Alice performs
delicious treats – with each other and a small performance tools with enthusiasm and skill. her choreography about the
invention of the telephone in
informal audience as part of their preparations Lighting and costume design students have Tea, Dance and Drama
for exams and performance projects. The events seen their work shine in productions across the 02 Upper Sixth Elise
and Lower Sixth Matilda
take place in the Meyer Theatre and have featured year, gaining valuable hands-on experience by demonstrate their own fight
student creations from devised theatre, screen operating the systems they’ve helped create. choreography as part of the
craft, choreography as well as workshop material Whether through screencraft, musical theatre, or stage combat course
from visiting professionals in commercial dance, playwriting, Millfield students have continued to
contemporary dance theatre and acting. Designed grow as confident, versatile artists.
as a testing ground to build confidence and try
out ideas, these events celebrate the supportive
community of students, staff and guests that lie at Ballet Performance
the heart of the programme. A new addition to the dance programme this year,
our Ballet Performance and Repetoire sessions
extend the knowledge and skills of our ballet
GCSE Dance Performances students beyond the RAD syllabus. With a key
Throughout the two year course, GCSE dance focus on Petipa’s Nutcracker in term one, students
students work to develop high level performances had the opportunity to study the original work and
across technical, expressive and physical skills. This choreography, resulting in two performances in
year, we have seen the group piece Snow Angels the dance show. In 2025, students have explored
performed under falling snow in The Nutcracker modern ballet vocabulary and styles, using
and in Tea, Dance and Drama events each term. contemporary music and aesthetics, to understand
Students have also presented their choreographic the fundamental connections evident in 21st
work as part of their exam preparation, including century dance styles.
pieces based on modern art, psychological
concepts and inventions from the Victorian Era.

Drama Co-Curricular Programme
This year’s co-curricular programme has harnessed
the passion, creativity, and commitment of
the drama students in weekly training sessions

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