Perspective: Bringing Youngsters On by Leaps and Bounds ; Features Editor Sid Langley Looks at a New Tv Project Involving Channel 4 and Birmingham Royal Ballet

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After the huge success of its two talent-spotting shows, Musicality and Operatunity, Channel 4 is devoting the third in the series to dance - with the involvement of the Birmingham Royal Ballet and all four West Midlands councils - Sandwell, Dudley, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

In a tremendously ambitious project, the idea this time is not to find a Billy Elliot or single out individual talents, but to get 300 young people aged between 15and 18 involved. Helping choose the youngsters will be the charity Youth at Risk, a group dedicated to helping disadvantaged youngsters. But alongside them, the project, titled Leaps and Bounds, is out to recruit 300 voluntary adult life coaches to help the youngsters on a one-to-one basis.

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Perspective: Bringing Youngsters On by Leaps and Bounds ; Features Editor Sid Langley Looks at a New Tv Project Involving Channel 4 and Birmingham Royal Ballet

Michael Waldman, of Diverse productions, who oversaw the other two shows for Channel 4, said: "This is going to be the most difficu...

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