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DANCING
As part
or our tenth Birthday Celebrations DIVA held a Salsa Dance Event in Ossett
Town Hall in June 2006
DRUMMING Jamin
Lassey leading Open Air Drumming Workshops
SINGING
Members
of several of DIVA's Choral Groups join together in song!
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Sing
Out
With Wakefield Voices
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DIVA specially commissioned a cycle of songs to reflect the changes to the Wakefield District over twenty years for the Sing Out project. Pete Rosser and Jane Buckler collaborated to compose the new songs and Wakefield Voices Community Choir performed Something New around the Wakefield District.  |
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The
choir preparing to perform Something New on the steps of
Wakefield Cathedral
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Pete Rosser is an inspirational composer who has been working with singers and musicians of all abilities around the country for over ten years. He has worked on large and small-scale community music projects in Bristol, Birmingham, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire fusing elements of jazz, folk, contemporary and popular music with instantly hummable tunes. Most recently he led DIVA's Joining Voices project and composed and conducted Postcards From Out of the Blue for the Wakefield Community Choir, which was performed at venues across the District during 2000.
Jane Buckler works regularly as a writer/librettist for the Education departments of the Royal Opera House, Opera North and English National Opera. Her work includes Operaville for Opera North, a community piece inspired by seven Bradford families which was performed in Bradford in 2000. Airheads, commissioned by Glyndbourne Opera and performed by 16-19 year olds, toured Germany. Jane also writes plays for theatre and Radio 4.
Ali Bullivent led weekly rehearsals with the choir.