Dance Six 0 is the community group for people over sixty who are keen on contemporary dance as exercise for mind and body, social interaction and community outreach.
On Friday, December 12, at 11 am, they marked the milestone by planting a tree in the grounds of the Salisbury Arts Centre.
Wiltshire Creative has been supporting and facilitating them from the beginning, and the group says that without their kindness, they could not have survived.
D6 0 consists of three weekly sessions of an open class, which anyone over 60 can join, and a weekly session of the Company consisting of 14 people who have auditioned and take performances all over England in dance festivals, including Sadler’s Wells and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds.
The Company has this year taken a dance and movement performance of the novella ‘The Man who Planted Trees’ by Jean Giono, to primary schools all over Wiltshire.
This was Arts Council funded, and after the performance, the pupils took part in a dance and movement workshop, devising a sketch on the theme of ecology.
Hence, the idea of asking Wiltshire Creative the group to plant a tree in celebration of the successful 10 years at the SAC, where they practice in the great White Room.
