A SCHOOL concert was given a modern twist when children added their own street dancing routines.
Orchestras playing classical music shared a stage with students performing acrobatic break-dancing routines at Parkside Comprehensive's summer concert yesterday.
Twenty students at the Willington school had been taken through two intensive break dancing workshops with professional dancer Davie Rae, from DanceCity, in Newcastle.
Music teacher Joo-Lee Stock also took part, performing a routine based on the 1930s Lindy Hop dance and modern Hip Hop, which she had performed days earlier at the Live Theatre on Newcastle's Quayside.
She said: "The workshops were fantastic. The weather has been boiling hot and they've worked really hard. They were doing moves after two workshops that are really acrobatic. Nobody dropped out because there were plenty of students to take their place. A hundred put their names down for the workshops.
"I thought this time I would have a taste of my own medicine and do a performance myself."
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