Francesca Filpi has been organizing The Wells Summer School for three years now, based at the Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and held this year over a period of ten days in August. Here a relationship has been forged between The Wells teaching faculty from The Royal Ballet and Harlequin providing roll out dance floor solutions. In the main hall of the school, Harlequin covered the hard parquet wood floor with Harlequin Studio flooring, which was also the choice to cover the wooden flooring in a large marquee erected in the school grounds. The solution for the Auditorium wood floor this time, was Harlequin Cascade - the same flooring used by The Royal Ballet dancers themselves at the Royal Opera House.
British Harlequin also promoted a 'Harlequin Scholarship', which was awarded to Carrie Willis, a pupil of The Royal Ballet School, as a further part of Harlequin's support for the event. Monica Arnott of British Harlequin commented: "We are pleased to be associated with The Wells Summer School, and especially as a local employer to be involved with this worthwhile activity in our community. We believe that it is important that children should have access to floors designed specially for dance to ensure they can realize their artistic potential safely. The wooden floors on their own are too harsh for dancers and potentially dangerous too. But here young dancers could enjoy the same quality of dance floor as their professional teachers."
Francesca Filpi said, "Harlequin Floors provide the most vital single element in the setting up of The Wells and instantly create a professional dance environment. Without them, our summer school simply could not be held in Tunbridge Wells!"
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
