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Hard work behind Billy Elliot success North schools express identity

Many parents become unpaid taxi drivers for their growing kids but The April Link looked at the innovative art work that has taken
Steve and Nicci Nyahwa from Nine Elms are clocking up more miles we look at how children have been exploring
than most taking their daughter Adina to perform twice weekly at one
of the West End’s biggest hit shows. At Moredon Primary School Dutch
artist Maarten de Reus has installed
A student with
Swindon Academy his artwork ‘You are Here’ at the
of Dance, Adina, main entrance.
right, has been per- Maarten, below, worked with pu-
forming in Billy El- pils before they moved to their new
liott since Decem- building and developed his artwork
ber. The thirteen on the theme of transitions. It plays
year-old dances in with perspective and viewers must
two performances a stand in a specifi c spot on a plate
week, with two ex- spelling ‘You’ and rest their chin on
tra matinees every a totem spelling ‘are’, to allow the school motto are displayed, right.
three weeks. seemingly random shapes above Pupils from Isambard Commu-
To make sure she the entrance to come together to nity School took part in a project
keeps up with her form the word ‘Here.’ with graphic artist Kate Parsons,
studies, teachers at Bradon Forest for parents to wait in the theatre Also at Moredon local artist Gor- which led to the creation of the new
set extra homework to make up unless they buy a ticket. don Dickinson ran art workshops school logo. Pupils also took part in
for missed classes. Adina’s hectic Steve and mum Nicci have no with pupils to create life size images sessions with Jeremy Wood from
schedule means a massive com- qualms about giving up their eve- of themselves, which have been GPS Drawing, which culminated
mitment from the whole family. nings and he recalls the fi rst time positioned in the corridors point- in an aerial photograph of staff and
“It’s not something you plan they saw Adina on stage. “We just ing towards the school hall where pupils mapping out the logo on the
for,” said Steve. “It creeps up on sat there beaming with Cheshire the children’s aspirations and the school fi eld, right.
you gradually but being selected Cat grins. It was a phenomenal
for a West End show was a jump experience; Adina’s mum and me
into the stratosphere because were so proud.”
we’re travelling up to London to On the evenings when he isn’t
be there by 6pm for an evening waiting outside the theatre, Steve
performance and not leaving makes sure he spends time with
until 10.30pm with a two hour his footballing son Tayten, 11.
drive ahead.” “It’s important not to neglect
He added that the hardest thing what he is doing and we make
is killing the time while Adina is sure that the light isn’t just shone
on stage as there is no provision on Adina.”

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