A POOLE school was filled with goddesses and demons as pupils interpreted the traditional roles of men and women through the medium of dance.

Youngsters from Oakdale Middle School, aged between 10 and 12-years-old, took an episode from Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights about the goddess Mohins who seduces and later kills a demon to explore the power struggle between the sexes.

The two-day Dance and Music in Education Project, which took place in February 1990, involved four professional dancers, two who formerly trained with the Royal Ballet School and two from the Academy of Indian Dance.

There was also traditional Indian music played on a sitar and tabla to accompany the multi-cultural theme of the workshop.