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Since 2005 we committed
ourselves to this and as the school grew so did our
investment.
These
investments started little with the purchase of ballet barres
right up to a more recent £600 investment on a professional portable dance
floor made by Harlequinn.
Harlequinn supply
dance floors for all the major dancing events around the world
and also supply to The English National Ballet and Riverdance.
In 2009 our biggest
investment to date was made. We used to hire lighting for
performances but felt that the money spent on lighting could be
used to buy our own lighting.
So an investment of over
£5000 was made and we purchased equipment not only for shows but
to enable us to stand out where ever we went.
We
purchased 18x LED Par cans, 4x Mirror Scanners, 2x Professional
250watt moving heads, 6x 300w Par Cans, 2x dimmer packs, 3x
heavy duty lighting trusses, computer controlled DMX lighting
software and miles of power and lighting (DMX) control cables.
We also purchased 8x
wireless microphones with flesh tone headsets, a large
professional mixing desk and over 2000 watts of sound.
This was also accompanied
by a 135" projector screen and a short throw projector to
project scenes on to the stage easily.
During the sound & lighting
investment we also invested over £3000 on costumes.
This was made up of over 30
Ballet TuTu's, leotards and hundreds of accessories
like head dresses, wands, skirts and this list goes on. There
was also a fish and frog costume in there somewhere.
This has now established our wardrobe department and will only grow
over time.
This years investment can
be seen in action by pressing play on the video on the home
page.
The most important
investment that we receive is time. Thousands of hours are
invested over each year by all the friends and family of Splash.
This makes all the shows, days of dance, school fetes and
displays possible.
This is the most
important gift you can give and its free.
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