Wonderful, fabulous, fantastic, stupendous, rich, cultural, delightful, emotional and unexpectably moving are just some of the ways I would describe last night's Hillview School for Girls "Dance Platform" which I was fortunate enough to be attend last night. The event was held at the E.M. Forster Theatre at Tonbridge School, which really is a superb facility and isn't it wonderful that they share it with the community. The famous author, who incidentally attended the school, would have been proud indeed to have been associated with this display of Tonbridge talent. Most of the dancers were students from Hillview but actually also entertaining us were girls and a few boys from quite a few primary and senior schools in the surrounding district. I did have good reason to go along as actually both my son and my daughter were performing. Obviously I therefore particularly enjoyed their performances, since I haven't seen them practice this year at all, so I didn't know what to expect. Apart from that the routine, which I believe was called White Noise, performed by the Youth Dance Company, was most memorable because basically I rather liked the loud tecno/electric pulsating music, by Pendulum, and the way the dancers interpreted it's varying tempo. But there were many other great routines, which included not only brilliant modern dance and ballet but also, what could only be described as I would say, gymnastics and acrobatics in some cases.
Hillview is a school which specialises in the perfoming arts, so I shouldn't be altogether surprised at the level, depth and capability of the dancers but I didn't expect to be completely blown away by it. It was great to have such an unexpectably brilliant night out....
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