Confidence, challenge and considerable promise in The Place CAT Summer Show
Moving between contrasting choreographers, styles and emotional worlds, all the dancers, all 16 or under, performed with flair, confidence and impressive technical ability.
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Love’s Labour’s Lost: Much ado about noise
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Think Big: a Festival for children and youths in Munich
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