April 2024: Dancers from the Amersham centre represented the Chantraine School of Dance at this year’s Honeycomb Festival. The group of six 11 and 12 year olds danced their own creation – ‘London Lights’ as well as ‘Rock and Heather’ choreographed by Françoise Chantraine. The Honeycomb Festival provides talented young people from the local area with a non-competitive performance platform. It was an honour to be a part of this year’s event at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre and dancers shone throughout.

March 2024: 14 Chantraine dancers (aged from 9 to from the Wanstead centre performed in the Redbridge Dance Link Gala.  The younger ones danced  Rodeo; older teenagers danced Birth and Believer; 2 adults danced The Clown.  They were a real credit to Chantraine Dance, in their dancing on stage and in their friendship in the dressing room.  An audience member said that the varied styles and music of the Chantraine choreographies and their inhabited dancing really shone out among the other dance schools.    

Photo by Mervin Archer.

February 2024: Photos from London-based one-day workshop discovering ‘Arti’ and ‘Eternity’, choreographed by Françoise Chantraine.

October 2023: Photos from London-based one-day workshop discovering ‘Melopee’ and ‘Why  Not?’, choreographies by Françoise Chantraine.

October 2023: The Chantraine School of Dance celebrates United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP) 2023 themed: “Fulfilling the Promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for Older Persons: Across Generations.”

October 2023: Photo from half-day workshop in Hove, discovering ‘Aria’, choreography by Françoise Chantraine.

February 2023: Photo from London-based one-day workshop discovering ‘Roots’, choreography by Françoise Chantraine.