MARK BLEAKLEY & KATIE MILLER

In summer 2019, dance artists Mark Bleakley & Katie Miller led 500 children from Timmergreens and Muirfield Primary Schools in Arbroath, in the Annual Children’s Graduation Procession. The Procession began at Timmergreens and included 4 performances along the route.

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Celebrating the children graduating onto secondary school and moving onto new things, the 3rd annual Children’s Procession was choreographed to travel along the streets and avenues of Arbroath. Dance Artists Mark Bleakley & Katie Miller worked with pupils and teachers at Muirfield and Timmergreens primary schools to create the new procession with movement leading the way. Arbroath’s school kids brought the surrounding landscape to life and lead the procession to the Paddock.

Through weekly rehearsals over 8 weeks, the artists and children drew inspiration from the surrounding landscape of Arbroath, the beautiful coastline, the fields and meadows surrounding Hospitalfield, the picturesque and changing urban landscape and importantly the young people living in Arbroath and who in the years to come will transform it.

Thanks to Janice Parker and Luke Pell for their advice in developing this Procession.