Saturday night saw me in work, where I was very pleased to be for ACE dance and music’s annual Christmas sharing, a great, family-feeling occassion which celebrates all the year’s achievements. There were performances by all the class groups, from Parents and Tots (so much cute!) to Adults’ African dance (oh, the shame). But the best performance was by their fantastic youth company ACE Youth.
I saw ACE Youth for the first time at the last Christmas sharing, and my jaw really did hit the floor at how amazing they are. Naturally, I’m seriously biased because I work for the company, so here’s a video for you to see for yourself. I think it was halfway through this performance at Raw Energy in the Dancexchange that me and my flatmate started laughing out loud at their sheer excellence. The youth platform show was a regional heat for Youth Dance England’s National Youth Dance Festival 2008, which they naturally sailed through to. I predict great things for ACE Youth in 2009.
After all that jumping about we got to stuff ourselves silly with lush Caribbean food from Caricom Restaurant next to the Adam and Eve on Warner Street. I slept like a baby when I got home.
