Samara Shows: Press and Comment

Click on the links below for reviews of shows, which apeared in local media

2005

2011

Lynn News featured the Downham Market show just before Christmas 2010 and you can see their photograph here.

Comments

We have received a number of comments from people attending or whose children were involved in the 2010/2011 shows:

"Thanks so much for a wonderful evening. It was so life-affirming to watch quite so many children having quite such a wonderful time"

"I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work to put on another fantastic show. (Our daughter) thoroughly enjoyed taking part (and we thoroughly enjoyed watching!) and she has come away with renewed enthusiasm for her dancing."

"(We) would like to thank you very much for the amazing show of last weekend. Every bit of it was wonderful (almost impossible to decide which sketch was one’s favourite) it was great to see everyone so happy whatever their level of participation... and we as parents felt our hearts swell with pride in their accomplishments."

"I thought the show at Christmas was sublimely gorgeous.  It was one of the highlights of my year.  Dance after dance was just a joy to behold.  You had my Mum and I in tears of joy from the Highland Dance onwards. A delight from beginning to end.

I also wanted to mention that I was helping in the quick change room and your ballet students are SO professional.  Every single one of them was gracious, helpful and polite, not only to us Mums, but even more amazingly to each other.  There was not a whiff of jealously or primadonna-ishness from any of them.  Your Samara students are a great team and they are a credit to you."

We raised £521.50 from raffles at the shows and £371.50 was sent to Shooting Stars Children's Hospice, with £150 going to the Royal National Lifeboats Association (RNLI)