EVOLVE Glasgow - Our Speakers
We are delighted to announce that DCD Retrained Dancers, former Scottish Ballet Soloist, Diana Loosmore, and Musical Theatre and Commercial dancer Julius Ebreo, will be speaking at EVOLVE Glasgow on Friday 1st May 2015.
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Julius Ebreo trained at Steps Dance School, Philippines, and the University of the Philippines, before moving to Hong Kong to become a member of the opening and original cast of Disney's Lion King. In 2007, Julius came to the UK and has since performed in productions including the National Theatre's Olivier Award nominated production, Here Lies Love, Equus, We Will Rock You and Romeo and Juliet, to name but a few. He also appeared in music videos for Katie Melua, Plan B and Ministry of Sound and The Muppets Most Wanted movie.
DCD supported Julius with a Financial Retraining Grant in 2014 to develop his own dance and entertainment agency, BE Artisan. Now based in Leeds, he is also a dance teacher and choreographer for institutions including the University of Leeds, North Yorkshire Dance, Dance Studio Leeds, Old School Dance Works, Renaissance Arts and Bolton University.
"Having attended EVOLVE London last year, I know first-hand how valuable this workshop is for professional dancers. I really look forward to sharing my career story and hopefully inspiring other dancers in transition."
Photo: DCD retrained dancer, Andrew Ross.
Diana Loosmore performed for Mark Bruce Company, Rafeal Bonachela, Richard Alston Dance Company, Siobhan Davies Dance, Jeremy James and Joanne Fong, amongst others, before joining Scottish Ballet as a soloist in Spring 2003. Diana's performance repertoire includes Page's Acrid Avid Jam, Petronio's MiddleSexGorge and Ride The Beast, Davies' White Man Sleeps, Forsythe's Artifact Suite (Mudwoman) and Workwithinwork, Ashton's Façade, Meckler/Lopez Ochoa's A Streetcar Named Desire, Page's 32 Cryptograms, The Pump Room, Room of Cooks, Refurbished Behaviour, Nutcracker, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and Brown's For M.G.:The Movie, Pastor's in light and Shadow, Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling, and Martin Lawrance's Run For It. Diana received a Herald Angel Award for excellence in her performance of Page works during Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2005, and the 2007 Peter Darrell Choreographic Award.
Diana was first supported by DCD in 2010 to train as a Gyrotonic Teacher and having left Scottish Ballet in June 2013, Diana now teaches Gyrotonic, Contemporary Technique and Choreography on the BA Modern Ballet programme at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and teaches Gyrotonic at the Movement Studio in Glasgow. Diana will be choreographing for High Heart Dance Company for the Cottier Dance Project in June 2015.
Find out more about EVOLVE Glasgow here or book your place using the form below
Any questions? Please contact Ellen Chambers, Grants and Careers Officer, on ellen@thedcd.org.uk or 020 7831 1449,