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Judges for 2009
The Urdang Acagemy
Stephanie Pope ARAD (Dip PDTC) Principal
After graduating from Rambert Ballet School Stephanie performed as a classical ballet dancer as well as pursuing a successful West End and TV career. Having retired as a performer Stephanie gained her teaching qualification on the Professional Dancers Teachers Course from The Royal Academy of Dance. Following a position as resident ballet teacher at Bush Davies School she went to Hong Kong as senior ballet mistress for the feeder school to the Hong Kong Ballet Company. On her return to England she joined The Urdang Academy as Head of Students and after Leonie Urdangís death became Principal.
Stuart Bishop - Bio
Stuart Bishop is director and choreographer for the renowned Rudeye Dance Agency and as an agent supplies dancers and choreographers on a daily basis for all aspects of the commercial dance industry including music videos,TV, fashion, commercials and film. Recent credits include commercials for Nintendo 'Wii music' and Playstation 'Guitar Hero' world tour, TV shows for channel five and ITV, Corporate work for BT, British Medical association and pop tours and videos for Space Cowboy/Nadia Oh in Tokyo and M.I.L.A.D. Stuart is the creator of the 'Fusion Funk' style, a mixture of Hip Hop,Jazz, Locking, Popping and Robotics and teaches at Pineapple studios as well as having worked and taught masterclasses all around the world including USA,Japan,Germany,Malta, Denmark,France and also judged the International Hip hop championships in Madrid, Spain.
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Tap attack is an amalgamation of some of the most innovative tap dancers, teachers and choreographers from all over the world. We bring a variety of styles, techniques and continually push the boundaries in all forms of tap dance.
Formed in 2006, Tap Attack offers UK based workshops, master classes, global residencies, bespoke workshops and incorporating our tap performance companies "Xtreme Tap" and "Tap Attack Youth Company", both are high quality innovative and entertaining performance projects for theatrical, corporate and commercial work.
We take our weekend roadshows directly to the tap dancers and with a continually changing faculty deliver varied and different styles each time. Our teaching faculty includes some of the leading dance figures in the tap industry - Graeme Henderson, Tarik Winston, Junior Laniyan, Dean Magri, Jo Scanlan, Nick Yeoman, Jamie Read, and Ian Waller. All have a wealth of experience appearing in shows such as “Tap Dogs”, “42nd Street”, “Riverdance”, Singin in the Rain” as well as teaching at the country’s leading vocational establishments.
Click here to find out more about Tap Attack
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Pure Star Productions
Tim Noble
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Tim is a shining talent with many and various strands to his career including: dancer; choreographer; T.V. presenter; T.V. producer; performance mentor and teacher. He is thrilled to be heading his exciting new company
and is dedicated to inspiring children and adults through Dance and the Performing Arts. All details will be displayed at the Kent Dance Challenge 2009
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Judges 2008
Tim Noble
Pure Star Productions
Colins Performing Arts
Michelle Blair - CPA College Course Director
Michelle Blair
Director/Choreographer
Colin Putz
Principal
Colin’s Performing Arts Ltd (CPA)
Colin Putz is the Principal of CPA which is based in Romford, Essex. The company comprises of a Part Time School, 3 Yr Musical Theatre Diploma College Course, Children’s Agency and a Professional Management.
As a performer Colin made his West End debut at the age of 9 at the London Palladium in ‘Aladdin’ with Cilla Black and the late Leslie Crowther. He then went on to play an orphan in the film Oliver with Ron Moody. He also appeared in the West End with Millicent Martin in Gypsy and as ‘Michael’ in Peter Pan. After graduating from College Colin appeared in the UK tour of ‘Guys and Dolls’ and was chosen to perform with Tommy Trinder in Summer Season and various cabaret performances. He was also an original cast member of ‘ 42nd Street ’ in the West End. Colin’s television credits include The Tales of Timothy Bagshott (BBC). Come Dancing (BBC) and numerous TV commercials. Colin also worked as a choreographer on many Pantomime and summer season shows - too numerous to mention!
Colin no longer performs professionally but concentrates his time on running CPA and helping other children and young adults to achieve their dreams of a career in the performing arts industry.
Steve Eden
Salsa Sensation / Dance Junction
www.salsa-sensation.com
Craig Kelly
DIGGA Beat London
Barry Edmonds
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