Stage Challenge – The Spinoff

20 years of Stage Challenge memories: the good, the bad, and the earnest

16 January 201816 January 2018 by Sam Brooks

Today it was announced that Stage Challenge, the secondary schools interpretative dance competition, is no more for this world. Sam Brooks crowdsourced people’s memories of Stage Challenge, and scoured YouTube for the best of the rest. As someone who went to a rugby-focused Catholic all-boys school, Stage Challenge was something that I’d always heard about … Read more

RIP Stage Challenge, where the non-sporty kids got to shine

17 January 201816 January 2018 by Kristin Hall

News came today that Stage Challenge, the national dance competition for schools, is to close after 25 years. Kristin Hall pays tribute to the touchingly earnest extra-curricular. We are but two weeks into 2018 and already we have a definite sign that this cruel world is going to continue its speedy downward trajectory until there … Read more