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Psychology of the Dancer

 The Dance Rush Dancers: Natasha Coppini talks about Psychology of the Dancer.

I joined Yada in 2004 at the age of 15. As a young dancer at the College of Jazz, we looked up to the Yada company members and we watched our idols on stage, hoping one day to be given the opportunity to perform the ‘Big Numbers’ with the company. So, joining Yada for me was a big deal and I felt honoured and proud to form a part of the clan. Going on 8 years now as a company member, I feel that my pride is instilled deeper than ever. 
What has Yada done for me? Plenty! The opportunity to perform the creations of our talented choreographers, to form part of productions that have pushed boundaries and wowed audiences, to explore dance styles that I wouldn’t have otherwise and ultimately to be part of a team, a crew, a family. No one understands us more than our fellow company members; the aching muscles, the injuries, the intense rehearsal schedules, juggling exams, juggling work, juggling friends and boyfriends. Continue reading
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Creating Dance Rush show in San Francisco

Dance. Just this one word opens up Pandora’s box. Most of us humans have dance incorporated in our lives and systems without us even knowing of its existence let alone importance. Many of those living on planet Earth use dance whenever the necessity or the feeling or the eventuality or the spontaneity of it calls. The big majority of us do not even know that many a times we are dancing without that same knowledge of us actually dancing. In fact everybody’s life is one continuous choreography danced to nature, to the sounds around us, to the silence and the space between sound, to our rhythmical breathing, heartbeat, mechanical noise, everyday routines, conversation… most of our dances are individual, personal but many times due to occasion or circumstance or the natural process of life, this dance becomes synchronised, becomes one and most of time, this is when the spectacle commences. Continue reading

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YADA’S DANCE RUSH ENGINE SWITCHED ON

YADA’s dancers swing, kick, pirouette and lift daily. Ballet shoes are hung and re-worn for Nina’s classes. Matias, the 12-year old mascot dancer travels from over the sea weekly from the sister-island of Gozo to rehearse. Felix and the other choreographers study, day-dream and get inspired from the music to create. Costume designers and make-up artistes meet up and communicate so that their creations will dazzle. Special effects, projections and visuals have started being built on computer screens. The YADA studios have started to look like bee-hives in preparation for their next production. It is a very exciting period. Continue reading

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Premiere of Dance Rush show in San Francisco

The YADA Dance Company will perform for the first time in US in January 2013. DANCE RUSH will be premiered at the Palace of Fine Arts, night out event in San Francisco on January 11th. This highly acclaimed and already popular European company has a particular brand – entertainment and spectacle at its best that leave audiences jump on their seats and join in the dance. This company has taken Europe by surprise with its unique rendition of dance shows, where the whole auditorium becomes a part of the stage, where emotions are destined to be touched and where from beginning to end, color and design take centre-stage. Continue reading

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