Jan 20 – International Adjudicator Announced For Gibraltar International Dance Festival
M.O. Productions has announced that the International Adjudicator travelling from the United Kingdom for the 14th edition of the Gibraltar International Dance Festival is Ms Deborah Norris.
Deborah completed her vocational training at Elmhurst Ballet School. After gaining a BA Hons at the University College of Ripon and York St John writing an ethnographic study into the history of Tap Dancing, in New York. After completing her MA in Dance Studies at De Montfort University in 2006, she gained a scholarship to study at the Jose Limon Contemporary Dance Institute, Manhattan where she completed their Professional Studies Programme. She then performed in New York working with many choreographers and teachers including Risa Steinberg and Alan Danielson. Since then she has worked internationally as a dancer, teacher and choreographer included assisting Paul Kerryson and David Needham as Assistant Choreographer on the 2012 UK Tour of ‘The King and I’.
Deborah is a Lecturer at Edge Hill University, specialising in Contemporary Technique and Ballet for Contemporary Dancers, she also teaches at Centre Pointe Studios, Manchester, having co-founded their three year vocational programme in 2009 with principal Caroline Wright. She is an adjudicator and member of the Board of Trustees for The British Federation of Festivals and a committee member and adjudicator for the All England Dance organisation.
Deborah also works as an independent dance artist and is currently engaging in scholarly research for her PHD in Contemporary/Modern Ballet, having recently premiered a new modern ballet work for the CounterPointe series in association with Julia Gleich and Norte Maar, Brooklyn. In 2014 Deborah was selected by Dance UK to be mentored as part of their dance leaders mentoring scheme and has been closely supervised by Amanda Britton (Director Rambert School) creating new areas of research and personal study.
Director Seamus Byrne said: ‘M.O. Productions is delighted to bring over to Gibraltar a highly qualified and experienced individual in the world of dance. We are confident that Deborah Norris, as a professional adjudicator for the British Federation, will contribute towards the development of our young performers and raise our local standards.’
The 14th Gibraltar International Dance Festival will be held between Thursday 3rd and Saturday 5th March 2016 at the John Mackintosh Hall Theatre. For further information please contact e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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