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Excellent! Symposium
Wednesday 16th July

Tony Hall, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, chaired the symposium for around 80 invited educationalists, arts professionals and policy-makers. Together they explored understanding and practice in nurturing excellence, cultural education, identifying exceptional potential and the development of the Music and Dance Scheme. John Holden of Demos was the keynote speaker. He has written the provocation, ‘Making a song and dance about it’ that can be downloaded here. Following the presentation there was a panel discussion including Nina Ashton a recent graduate of the Purcell School, Nicholas Kenyon Managing Director of the Barbican, Jeanette Siddall an independent member of the Music and Dance Scheme Expert Group, Kenneth Tharp Chief Executive of the Place, and composer Debbie Wiseman. In the afternoon there were presentations from Nicolas Chisholm headteacher of the Yehudi Menuhin School, Marie McCluskey Director of Swindon Dance, Richard Jones of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Joan-Albert Serra of the Sage, Jay Jolley and Ginny Brown of The Royal Ballet School. In the final session delegates discussed the topics of the day and proposed action to follow-up the symposium. To read a report on the symposium click here.

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