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February BOP News  - Check out what BOP are up to!

11/2/2016

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The BOP Company Dancers will be performing at two events coming up in March 2016

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RICHDANCE FESTIVAL - Richmond Borough
Saturday 12th March 2016

The BOP Company Dancers will guest perform
​as part of 
Richmond Borough's Annual Dance Festival RichDance 
2016.

​BOP will perform as part of the program and will perform a section of Company repertoire entitled Juba Jump Warriors from the BOP Jazz Theatre Production - Footprints in Jazz. 

Show Performance:  2.30pm - 4.00pm
at the
HAMMOND THEATRE
Hampton School
Hampton

Middlesex TW12 3HD

Ticket Prices: £8.50/£4.50

To Book your tickets 
Box Office: 0208 831 6000
Online: www.richmondgov.uk/richdance

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**Dollie will also be presenting a BOP Jazz workshop on the Saturday morning with the BOP Dancers. 

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LET'S DANCE - Pineapple Dance Showcase
Sunday 20th March 2016

A special pre-Easter Dance Showcase performance event produced and presented by Debbie Moore OBE and PINEAPPLE DANCE STUDIOS.
The dance programme will offer a selection of dance pieces created by Pineapple Studio dance teachers and practitioners.
Through Dollie Henry being a practitioner at Pineapple with her renowned Jazz Class aka 'Sunday Jazz Congregation', she will bring the energy of her class to the stage with a Jazz dance piece performed by her BOP Company dancers. 


Show Performance:  7.00pm
at the
ARTS DEPOT
5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner
North Finchley
London N12 0GA


All Tickets: £15.00

To Book your tickets 
Box Office: 020 8 369 5454
Online: www.artsdepot.co.uk


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 Special Promotions for The BOP Dance Community

11/9/2015

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A Special Introduction to "Healing the Dancers Body"  with JULIA WOOD

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A Message from Julia Wood
“I’ve known Dollie and Paul for a few years now and have always been so impressed with their ethos of nurturing and supporting Jazz Dance and Music talent around the world. I am delighted to now be in a position to join them by offering their students and BOP Community a third off our normal treatment price"
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Dollie after her session with Julia Wood

Julia Wood is one of the directors, lecturers, not to mention incredible "Hands-On" therapist of the new Organic based Complimentary Health Treatment Centre, known as CHP.Ltd  based in the heart of London on South Molton Street W1.

Dollie shares her thoughts ...
On my return from a rather hectic Summer in NYC and Poland, I needed to re-energise and get my body back in line and so I made my way to see Julia for my first session of Muscle Therapy and Aromatherapy massage ... The experience was Glorious!!

This is the first time I’ve wanted to recommend a massage therapist to my students and dancers. In my personal experience, Julia’s observations about my posture and ‘problem areas’ (and I do have them) were absolutely spot on. Naturally, I was aware of how my body had been performing over the last few months but until I had a treatment with Julia, I hadn’t paid sufficient attention to it. During a wonderfully restorative full body massage, using a blend of aromatherapy oils Julia prescribed for me, she gently questioned me about my dance practice and particularly what my routine was when teaching.  Through this I was encouraged to reflect on what I needed to do in order to restore all my muscles to full working order.


Anyone who knows me well will understand how important mutual respect is to me. One of the stand out features of my time with Julia was the complete respect I was shown as a dance professional; she didn’t once lecture me about what I ‘should’ be doing as she recognises I already knew the answers, it was just a case of getting me to pay attention to what my body had been trying to tell me for a while. 
It was this, as well as feeling so reconnected with my body after the treatment, that has made me want to recommend Complementary Health Professionals to you. 

Seriously Dancers, In all Honesty ... this is a must for anyone who is serious about their dance training and physical longevity as a performer. I will now be finding the time in my diary to have a regular monthly treatment just to check-in with my body and nurture my creative spirit. We forget how important it is to Give Back To Ourselves. 
I highly recommend you get on the program with me BOP friends!! 

A Message from CHP
“We understand Dance and we understand Dancers”,  couple that with many years experience treating healthy and injured sports people and creative professionals and you have the reason why Julia Wood and Carole Preen of Complementary Health Professionals are the therapists of choice for Dollie and Paul.  They are able to give a bespoke massage treatment which will address any ongoing soft tissue problems, getting to the root of the problem which may lie in general overuse, or something which needs correcting in your dance practice, or even something which needs the attention of a different healthcare professional such as an osteopath. Most often, however, they are able to offer the solution at their beautiful clinic at 58 South Molton Street.

** A Special Promotional Price is offered to the BOP Dance Community **
The normal fee for a hour session is £120.00 - Quote the code “BOP” when you book you will only pay £80.00 

TO BOOK your Treatment Session ... Please contact the clinic direct
Address: 58 South Molton Street, London W1K 5SL | Tel: 020 7706 1997   
If you would like to contact Julia first, Please Email  | enquiries@complementaryhealthprofessionals.co.uk
Link to more information about the clinic |  http://www.chporganictherapies.co.uk/
​Twitter | @chp_ltd    
Please remember to quote “BOP” to secure the discounted rate.
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BOP take their 5* London Cabaret Show "BACK 2 BLACK"  starring RAY SHELL to New York

22/6/2015

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BOPJazz.UK & Street Angels Productions present

RAY SHELL : BACK2BLACK in NYC

at The CORNELIA STREET CAFE

“Ray Shell has the kind of voice that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Powerful, smooth and seemingly effortless, 
with an amazing range, it envelops you. This show is a gem.”  Everything Theatre


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  • Written & Devised by:  Ray Shell & Dollie Henry 
  • Starring:  Ray Shell
  • Director:  Dollie Henry
  • Music Associate/MD/Arranger:  Paul Jenkins

ABOUT RAY SHELL and THE SHOW ...
After wowing the critics and his audiences with his stunning London cabarets, earning him a clutch of 
5* and 4* reviews, Ray Shell returns to New York after 37 years making his cabaret debut at Cornelia Street Café with his highly acclaimed one-man show BACK2BLACK in NYC.
From his career beginnings in his native home of New York in shows like The Me Nobody Knows and Hair, Ray Shell’s career has embraced starring roles in many of the greatest musicals of the past 30 years, from Hair and Starlight Express to The Bodyguard and Lion King. 
BACK2BLACK in NYC features Ray’s distinctive interpretation of well-known songs from musicals from Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd to current Broadway hit Kinky Boots and so much more ... All woven together with witty stories, insights and anecdotes from his impressive and illustrious career. 
BACK2BLACK in NYC promises to be an amazing musical journey. An evening of storytelling, song and sensational entertainment from the ‘Soul Man of London’s West End’. 
In association with 
The CORNELIA STREET CAFE 
BOP are delighted to be presenting their highly successful London cabaret show in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village this Summer, with BACK2BLACK in NYC starring musical theatre talent and writer RAY SHELL.
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www.corneliastreetcafe.com

*FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY ... A performance not to be missed!!

WEDNESDAY 5TH AUGUST 2015

Performance Starts | 8.30PM
Tickets - $10.00 Cover and $10.00 minimum

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street | Greenwich Village | New York, NY 10014

(Btw 4th St & Bleecker St West Village)

To make a Reservation | Tel: (+1) 212 989 9319 

www.corneliastreetcafe.com/downstairs/performances.asp


“Ray Shell has been a fixture in West End musicals for more than 30 years now, from Starlight Express (in which he created the role of Rusty in its 1984 stage premiere). There is nothing rusty about his thrilling vocal talents, or the ease of the sparky rapport he establishes with an audience”  Mark Shenton  - The Stage.


For BOPJazz.UK    
info@bop.org.uk  | www.bop.org.uk 
UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 8641 6959

NYC Tel: +1 347 570 6896
For Street Angel Productions
angel22.tv@hotmail.com
Tel: +1 917 909 2942
For Back2Black
Kevin Wilson - Public Relations
Tel: +44 (0)20 8673 0658     Mob: +44 (0)7884 368697
kevinwilsonpr@gmail.com
www.kevinwilsonpublicrelations.co.uk
West End Publicist of the Year  - Fringe Report Awards

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Dollie will be teaching at Broadway Dance Center in New York this August 2015

22/6/2015

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Click to See Dollie's profile at 
Broadway Dance Center
Dollie will be returning to New York this Summer to present 
a series of Jazz Theatre Dance Classes at 
Broadway Dance Center

Dollie arrives in New York direct from London to present her highly acclaimed 
BOP Jazz Theatre Dance Classes. A chance to share in the unique Jazz style, energy and passion of Ms. Henry. With a career spanning 30 years as a performer, choreographer, director and educator, Dollie is recognized as one of the most formidable dance powerhouses with a personality to match.

An immense creative and performing force, Dollie epitomizes all it is to be a consummate, all-encompassing Jazz Dance Artist. A fusion of spirit and genuine creative expression allows this Lady to sustain her position as the catalyst for the 
Jazz Dance Art Form in the UK and throughout Europe leading the way as Artistic Director of the UK’s Premier Jazz Theatre Company - Body Of People (BOP)

So to all friends and the NYC dance community Don't Miss Out ... on a chance to take class with Europe's - First Lady of Jazz - Dollie Henry 

Dates of Dollie's Jazz Theatre Classes 
Thursday | 6th / 13th / 20th August 2015
 7.30pm - 9.00pm | Studio 3

Broadway Dance Center
322 West 45th Street | 3rd Floor | New York | NY 10023
Tel: 212.582.9304  |  www.broadwaydancecenter.com
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The BOP Jazz Summer Residency is coming in July ... Guest Teachers announced

21/6/2015

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Just a few places left ... So still time to book your place for the BOP Jazz Summer Residency.

BOP is very excited about this year's 4th BOP Summer Jazz Residency. We have a really international group of dancers attending the Program. We will be welcoming dancers from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain and of course the UK. 
The BOP Jazz message is spreading far and wide! 

BOP are also delighted to announce our two guest teacher/choreographers, invited to share their passion and artistry, from the
world of Afro-Zulu Dance with BAFANA SOLOMON MATEA and from the world of Hip-Hop Theatre with SHAUN PAUL SMITH. 
This is going to be a wonderful experience for all the dancers taking part on the Residency, who will have the opportunity to experience and be informed further of the differing styles and techniques of dance that are part of, and a significant pulse of the JAZZ Art Form.

For further details and to Register your place on the Residency go to our BOP Summer Jazz Residency Page



Bafana Solomon Matea
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Bafana was born in Mamelodi, South Africa and was the recipient of an Alvin Ailey Dance Fellowship, which took his dance career to New York City. 
His vast and varied career in the USA  as performer, teacher and choreographer has allowed him to acquire many artistic forms of dance including Classical and Contemporary dance,  African, Jazz and Hip-Hop. 
Bafana has performed throughout the USA and internationally with dance companies; Elisa Monte Dance, Ballet Hispanico, Battery Dance company. 
In 2013 Bafana moved to London and has worked with BOP Jazz Company and State of Emergency and various creative events. in 2014, Bafana became a company member with Tavaziva Dance Company in London.  Bafana's choreography has been presented by Battery Dance Company in New York City, Africa, South America and Europe and he has performed in over 50 countries. 
As a practitioner Bafana continues to teach students and dancers nationwide in schools, colleges and open dance classes in Contemporary Dance, Jazz Dance and African Dance.

Shaun Paul Smith 
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Shaun trained at Harlequin Stage School in Worcester and Graduated from London Studio Centre in July 2008.
Previous Theatre credits: Tommy Franzens 'Smile' (Assistant director/choreographer, Sadlers Wells), ZooNations 'The Mad Hatters Tea Party' (Dance Captain - Royal Opera House , Linbury Theatre), ZooNations 'Groove On Down The Road' (Assistant Director QEH Southbank centre), 'I Can't Sing - the X Factor Musical' (Dance Captain - London Palladium), Boy Blue Ent Production 'The Five And The Prophecy Of Prana' (Barbican), 'Blaze Streetdance Sensation' (Australia and Germany tour) ZooNation's 'Some Like It Hip Hop' (Sadlers Wells and UK Tour), 'Shoes The Musical' - Ensemble/Swing (Sadlers Wells) Zoo Nation's 'Into The Hoods' - Swing (Royal Festival Hall), 'West Side Story' - Swing (50th anniversary UK Tour), Boy Blue Ent production 'Pied Piper' (Theatre Royal, Stratford)
Commercial Credits: Justin Bieber 'Somebody to Love/Baby' (X Factor), LMFAO (Let's Dance and Britain's Got Talent), Cher Lloyd 'Swagger Jagger' (T4 On The Beach and BRMB Live), JLS (Summertime Ball), Cheryl Cole 'Promise This' (Children in Need), Katie Perry 'Fireworks' (X Factor), Professor Green 'Monster' (Mobo Awards), Cheryl Cole '3 Words' (Music Video) 



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