So many thanks to the whole team for this year... Shallal has grown to be so much more than this blog can give credit to, please check out Shallal Sketchbooks and Shallal Studio especially and the community groups, so many good creative things going on!
Most groups had their own end of term celebration for Christmas, Friends and Dancing had a wonderful Sharing.
Shallal Dance Theatre hosted the Shallal Zoom Christmas party with 34 people dropping in.
We ended the year with The Video Premiere of 'A Call to Home' on Shallal Arts Youtube at 7pm 23 December, do check it out.
Many thanks to Sapphire for filming, editing and compiling and to Sammy and others who helped on the day.
We will be sad to have Sapphire's role end on the 7 January we have so benefitted from and enjoyed working with her, we hope to keep connected and working together, plans bubbling along.
We are grateful for a few wonderful audience members on 10 Dec for Shallal Dance Theatre's second Showcasing and Sharing, with covid concerns heightened we didn't want to cancel but also wanted safe numbers, so all worked well. And we are now attracting the cross section of audience we had hoped for some years ago.
"A spellbinding garden of winter runes and blossoming light forms." - comments from a returning audience member who also has joined a community group.
I also heard second hand that a performer said it was "one of the best days" he had when commenting on our first Showcase.
Our next AGM is booked in as 2pm 20 May 2022.
A big thank you to everyone behind the scenes in Shallal for our increasing organisational improvements. We are growing and need to sustain all we do and everyone is in role and holding and supporting each other, it is lovely to see.
And the kindness, generousity and creativity of everyone involved in the groups and sessions continues to move, inspire and impress me.
Shallal 2 had a fun Christmas meet up some in the room and some on zoom! We are thoroughly enjoying being at our new venue.
Shallal Christmas tree, one of many at the Christmas Tree Festival at Princess Pavillions until 4 January
Until next year I leave you with a favourite memory to dance in the new year
Watching this again reminds me that...
The joy and collaboration of Shallal Dance Theatre has been the inspiration Shallal has grown from,
it is now so much more with each part having it's own unique yet similar spirit.
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