Gang Of Youths frontman David Le aupepe isn’t like other singers. A charismatic man apart, a creative livewire who’s a deep thinker at the same time as being an incessant talker, a militant look-forwarder who has no intention of resting on any of the success his band have achieved over the past decade.
Take this answer to a question about his group’s back catalogue, for instance. “I don’t want to hear the last two albums,” he says. “I want to wake up in a world where they didn’t happen.”
But they did happen, so let’s have a quick recap: Gang Of Youths were formed in Sydney, Australia in 2011 by Le aupepe and some like-minded mates. Within months of their first gig, they’d started to attract a rabid fanbase enraptured by their expansive, widescreen take on indie-rock, the sort of black magic music that manages to feel universal and personal at the same time. They honed this sound over two records, on 2015’s The Positions and 2017’s Go Farther In Lightness,
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7:30 AM April 9, 2021
Brendan Keaney, chief executive of DanceEast, says that the grant for digital technology will transform their education programme
- Credit: DanceEast
DanceEast has been awarded a major grant to help develop new digital teaching resources which will then boost the company’s education outreach work.
The dance facility, based on Ipswich Waterfront, has received £334,000 from Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts-Based Learning Fund to support the development of an innovative digital teaching model – using technology to bring exciting learning concepts to life through dance.
Brendan Keaney, DanceEast’s chief executive and artistic director, said that it was one of their ambitions to transform dance teaching within primary schools across the region.
Published:
7:30 AM April 9, 2021
Brendan Keaney, chief executive of DanceEast, says that the grant for digital technology will transform their education programme
- Credit: DanceEast
DanceEast has been awarded a major grant to help develop new digital teaching resources which will then boost the company’s education outreach work.
The dance facility, based on Ipswich Waterfront, has received £334,000 from Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts-Based Learning Fund to support the development of an innovative digital teaching model – using technology to bring exciting learning concepts to life through dance.
Brendan Keaney, DanceEast’s chief executive and artistic director, said that it was one of their ambitions to transform dance teaching within primary schools across the region.
Published:
7:30 AM March 12, 2021
Jesse Baggett-Lahav photographed at a CAT performance at Dance East. Jesse has just landed a place at the National Youth Dance Company
- Credit: Alicia Clarke
Ipswich dancer Jesse Baggett-Lahav is the latest dance talent to be snapped up by a national company following in the footsteps of other local stars such as Gary Avis, Helen Crawford and Vincent Redmon.
The 17 year old, Northgate High School student, who is also a member of DanceEast’s CAT scheme (Centre for Advanced Training), has just passed a challenging audition to be selected to join the National Youth Dance Company, based at Sadler’s Wells in London.