Melody Bear joins Wayne's World of Dance

Wayne Sleep launches the new International Dance Supplies 2010/2011 Diamond Catalogue featuring our new Melody Bear uniform.

Photo: left to right - Anne Walker MBE, founder of IDS, Wayne Sleep OBE and Jill Bridger, creator of Melody Bear.

We are proud to announce our association with Anne Walker's International Dance Supplies (IDS) as the new exclusive supplier of our Melody Movement Early Learning uniform. IDS has over 30 years of experience in the dance wear industry and we are delighted that we can offer their quality of service and value to our Melody Bear teachers.

Anne, who launched her new Diamond catalogue with the help of dancer, Wayne Sleep OBE, has recently been awarded an MBE for services to business. Wayne gave a fascinating and highly amusing talk on his career and experiences in the dance world with anecdotes featuring everyone from Margot Fonteyn and Nureyev to his friendship with Princess Diana.

Jill Bridger, the creator of Melody Bear, says she is "excited about the future of Melody Bear as we now have more than 400 teachers in the UK and overseas who are finding success with our preschool dance syllabus. Our association with IDS means that they can benefit from IDS's streamlined stock, order processing and dispatch facilities and are guaranteed a professional service for their Melody Bear uniform supplies." Jill adds that apart from the ballet uniform, Melody Bear HQ in Cambridgeshire will be continuing to supply all our teacher packages, resources, syllabus, music CDs and providing assistance and advice to all teachers as before. "We are working together to ensure young children everywhere enjoy 'learning to dance and dancing to learn' with Melody Bear".

For further information on Melody Movement and Melody Bear visit http://www.melodymovement.com/ and http://www.melodybear.com/ . Visit http://www.ids.co.uk/ for details on the Melody Movement Dance Uniform.

Little Bear Feet - fun for toddlers

Little Bear Feet with Melody Bear classes are the perfect introduction to dance and movement for little girls and boys age 18 months upwards. The joys of dancing and singing are shared by teacher, parent and toddler as together they join Melody Bear in her journey to Nursery Rhyme Land. How will she get there? Will it be by aeroplane, car or flying carpet? Who will she meet? Will it be Humpty Dumpty or Mary Mary Quite Contrary? Delightful interpretations of traditional, familiar nursery rhymes together with new music and songs inspire children's natural zest for dance, movement and self expression. The use of props, mime, songs and rhymes enrich and charm the budding dancers as they take their first steps into the magical world of Melody Bear.

Who is Melody Bear? She is the loveable teddy at the heart of the Melody Movement Early Learning program. Her stories and themes instill children with a love of dance, making it a positive element of their early lives which stays with them whilst learning from a young age how music, movement, dance and the imagination can be combined to tell a story and convey emotions

Little Bear Feet classes are the first step in the Melody Movement dance program. In addition to movement skills, children are introduced to other fundamental curriculum learning skills such as counting, colour and shape recognition, vocabulary and language skills. The strength of the system is that learning is achieved through imaginative movement which is enjoyable and fun. Melody Movement provides every child with the opportunity to discover and fulfill their own potential whilst nurturing creative development. The non-competitive award schemes motivate, delight and inspire the young dancers as they advance from Little Bear Feet classes to the Junior Ballet levels.

For more information and to find your nearest class visit www.melodymovement.com