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Into the Hoods: Breakdance gets its big break

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By Lyndsey Winship
Telegraph

Three years ago, Kate Prince was at a dead end. At 31, she was working as a runner for a TV production company, making tea and taking lunch orders, and was ready to give up her dream to be a choreographer.

Into the Hoods: Breakdance gets its big break

Into the Hoods is a fairytale with a hip-hop slant

Three years ago, Kate Prince was at a dead end. At 31, she was working as a runner for a TV production company, making tea and taking lunch orders, and was ready to give up her dream to be a choreographer.

Into the Hoods is a fairytale with a hip-hop slant Fast forward to this week and outside London's Novello Theatre a huge hoarding for a soon-to-be-hit show proclaims: "Director: Kate Prince". It's a dramatic turnaround in fortunes.

The show is Into the Hoods, an "urban fairytale" that Prince has created with her street dance company ZooNation. It's a feelgood family show, with some great comic performances from the young cast.

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