The Dynamo Archive

The history of Dynamo is encapsulated in the Milestones page which recalls significant events (minor as well as major) which have helped shape our company.

The present page and its many sub-pages will no doubt be mainly of interest to those who have been associated with Dynamo in some way over the years, whether as performers or their parents, helpers and committee members, or just as regular 'Friends'.

All our programmes are already posted (*), so members and past members can remind themselves of what they did and who else was there. Heaps of photographs exist, waiting to be sorted and posted in due course.

(*) Two programmes are incomplete -"Mad Forest" (1992) and "Dance & Drama + Rabbit" (1993). If anyone has a copy please get in touch!

2001/2002
Portsmouth Music Festival

The Portsmouth Music Festival has been an annual event since 1918. It is a huge event, running for several weeks with hundreds of musicians in numerous classes, competing in many venues in Portsmouth and surrounding areas. DYT competed for the first time in 2001 with a medley of the songs from Fiddler On The Roof, the show we performed in January of that year. John Gleadall, the Musical Director of Fiddler, further improved the cast's singing ability, resulting in DYT gaining a Distinction and winning the cup for their class!

John led Dynamo to win again in 2002 with a reprise of songs from One Pride One People.This time we won WITH HONOURS and were awarded the prestigious Rotary Club cup. There are very few Honours awarded (when we competed on 16th March 2002, only one other entry was awarded honours that day) and it was the first time a performance lead by John Gleadall had won with Honours.

 

 

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