Dr Peter Lovatt

Community Dance

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One of Peter's aims is to get everyone dancing and because of that he's involved in a wide range of community dance activities.  Peter particularly enjoys working with groups of people for whom dance is a new experience. For example, Peter worked with the Kimpton Bench Working Party to create a surprise tap dance routine, he has worked with groups of City Bankers using dance as part of a Psychology based corporate training event, he was a judge at the Forums Got Talent, he choreographs the Harpenden and Wheathampstead District Scouts Gang Show, and he is delighted to be involved with Macmillan's Brick Lane Takeover.

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 Macmillan Cancer Support:
 Brick Lane Takeover 17th June 2010 London

                   Peter is delighted to be part of this event

Brick Lane Takeover Launches online competition, ‘Get You Jig On’.

This year to promote Brick Lane Takeover we’ve set up ‘Get Your Jig On’, an online competition calling on all music and dance fans to submit videos of their best dance moves. Impress us and you could take home the ultimate festival package.

We don’t care whether you’re a pro or a beginner, we want to see your dance moves and there’s a category for everyone – ‘Fancy Footwork’, ‘Dad Dancing’ and ‘I Can’t Dance But I’m Doing It For Charity’.

Video clips only need to be between 10-30 seconds long. Anything goes really and it’s as easy as filming it in your bedroom, in a studio or in a club. Use a mobile phone, digital camera or handheld camera to record your dance moves and then share with us.

Once you’ve submitted your footage you’ll be in with a chance of winning tickets to Bestival, camping gear and exclusive VIP after-show party tickets to Brick Lane Takeover plus more!

The three finalists, one from each category, will be invited to a judged dance-off at the event where the winner will take home the ultimate VIP festival package for themselves and a mate. There will also be runners up prizes for the two finalists.

For more information on ‘Get Your Jig On’ click the Get your Jig On logo above or join our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/TBLT

Watch out for the announcement of a special guest judge!! 

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Kimpton Bench Working Party


A group of men in a small village in Hertfordshire were persuaded by one of their number to perform a surprise tap dance routine at their annual village fair.  A dozen men, and one women, in their late sixties and seventies, who had never danced before, spent twelve weeks laughing, crying, arguing and forgetting how to tap before they gave a fantastic and fun performance. Peter worked with the Bench Working Party for an hour a week, discovering and pushing the boundaries of their abilities, teaching them the basics of tap, and working out how to attach taps to the soles of work boots! The video to the right demonstrates that dance does not have to be technically perfect to be utterly enjoyable and worthwhile.

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Harpenden & Wheathampstead Gang Show


Peter is pleased to be choreographing the Harpenden & Wheathampstead District Gang Show again this year. The Gang Show is a fantastic variety show. The cast is made up of 152 young people between the ages of 10 and 18 and it includes over 30 songs, song and dance routines, sketches and pure dance. The show goes on in January 2010 and rehearsals run from September 2009. Last years show was the special 60th Diamond anniversary show. 

                   

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Forum's Got Talent

To celebrate the opening of the new Forum the University of Hertfordshire hosted a talent competition for the whole community to enjoy, either by participating or watching the final, based in the new entertainment venue, The Forum. Peter was proud to be one of the three judges. The talent contest was open to everyone from age eight and upwards.

Diversity, the dance group who won Britain's Got Talent, opened the final show with a fantastic dance routine and the energy didn't drop for the next 90 minutes.