Dance Evening 2024! As always, we are very fortunate to have such enthusiastic and talented dancers who work extremely hard to get their performances ready on time! The Dance Club Leaders have worked so hard to choreograph such fantastic dances around their GCSE and A Level studies. They have been committed to run numerous practices and I am very appreciative of the hard work involved and I know the girls are as well, so well done and huge thank you to Erin Shiel, Erin Taylor, Sienna Akore, India Elkes, Lydia Botting, Amelia Dimitrova and Lexie Rowley. Also, a massive thank you to Miss Fentiman for putting a show-stopping Gymnastics piece together! It is not an easy job but the girls have been dedicating their time before school and at lunchtime on a weekly basis to get their performance ready. The show doesn’t happen without the people behind the scenes! Thank you to Annabella Johnson and Laila Mirza who did the sound and lighting for both performances, you did an amazing job!

This year we had a record 112 students in the show! They all chose brilliant songs to represent this year’s theme; ‘a night at the movies’. It was a pleasure to hear a huge variety of music. Students from all years performed in routines from tap, ballet, Irish dancing, hip-hop and an amazing gymnastic display, creating an evening which was entertaining and captivating. The Year 8 Dance club opened the show with their colourful dresses as they danced to ‘Someone in the Crowd’ from La La Land. Sophia Wright performed on an incredibly emotive piece to ‘What was a I made for’ from Barbie and then we saw a contrasting upbeat number from Reyyan Demetriou to ‘Don’t stop believin’ from Bedtime Stories. In addition, Lexie Rowley, Olivia Kinnear and Sadie Sutton performed a stunning number to ‘Men in Black’ and Rose Dedman, Chloe Evans, Millie Bradford, Emily McCutcheon and Ronni Horncastle performed a hip-hop routine to 16 shots from Honey. Izzy Statham, Ruby Templeton and Teah Gregory put on well-choreographed gymnastics numbers to finish the first half in style.

The second half of the evening led off with a fantastic show case of skill, timing, and creativity; Gym club, choreographed by Miss Fentiman to ‘Life is a highway’. Following this, a variety of dance genre kept the audience captivated; a stunning Irish number by Elsie Fordham to ‘He’s a pirate’, a ballet piece by Kiri Lobb, tap numbers by Hermione Curzon and Sienna Akore, a cheeky jazz routine from Amelie Martin and Lois Vinall and a classy ballroom piece from Cleo Lambourne. The second half was also full of beautiful duets from Olivia Coghlan and Erin Shiel; Holli Jenkins and Charlotte Doyle, Emily Hoskins and Olivia Rigby. The Year 9 dance club put on a glitzy number to ‘A little party never killed nobody’ from Great Gatsby and the show finished with the Senior Dance Club performing to ‘Freedom’ from Despicable Me 3. We finished the show with everyone on stage dancing to ‘Can’t stop the feeling’ and the audience clapping and enthusiastically cheering!