It's Ballet Rambo!
By Sam Wonfor foc icNewcastle


Anyone making their way along St James' Boulevard in Newcastle yesterday afternoon would have been forgiven for assuming open air rehearsals were under way for a new Full Monty-inspired dance show.

Burly men in hard hats took centre stage at the dusty building site - each with a graceful female partner, whom they swung around with gusto.

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Dance complex gets £7.5m revamp
From BBCi


More than £7m is to be spent redeveloping an award-winning dance centre on Tyneside.
Newcastle's Dance City will use the money to rebuild a new complex away from its present Peel Lane site, with new studios, a dance lab, education centre and cafe.

Cash for the project has come from the Arts Council, Newcastle City Council and a number of charitable trusts.

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