Harlequin support Rural Retreat 2012

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Harlequin continued with financial support once again for DanceEast’s Rural Retreat 2012 for Future Directors and Creative Producers for Ballet and Dance. DanceEast’s 6th Rural Retreat this year focused on the role and challenges of ‘artistic direction‘. The 2012 Rural Retreat was hosted at the Ufford Park Hotel near the market town of Woodbridge, Suffolk and featured 26 current, emerging and aspiring artistic directors and creative producers from the worlds of ballet and dance. 

DanceEast Director Assis Carreiro said “The role of artistic director is the most highly coveted and yet is the position which has had little or no rigorous review. There is no training or preparation for the biggest job in dance. More often than not, former dancers and choreographers are handed the top job with no qualifications or previous directorial experience. Not even football managers get away with this.”