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 we are very appreciative of the hard work involved and we know the students are as well, so well done and huge thank you to Sienna Akore, Amelia Dimitrova, Olivia Kinnear, Lexie Rowley, Alice Tanner, Kiri Lobb, Reyyan Demetriou and Florence Webb. Also, a massive thank you to Mrs Hicks for putting yet another show-stopping Gymnastics piece together as well as organising the whole show this year! It is not an easy job (with 43 gymnasts!!) but the students have been dedicating their time 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 and we will miss you next year!

This year we had a record 113 students in the show! They all chose brilliant songs to represent this year’s theme; ‘Our School Values’. It was a pleasure to hear a huge variety of music representing the values; Ambition, Equality, Creativity, Integrity, Resilience and Kindness. Students from all years performed in routines from tap, ballet, hip-hop and an amazing gymnastic display, creating an evening which was entertaining and captivating.

Sisters Sienna and Mya Akore opened the show with their colourful blue 2-pieces as they danced to ‘Turn to Stone’. We had an uplifting tap performance from Amelie Martin and Sophia Wright performed on an incredibly emotive piece to ‘Never Enough’. We then saw contrasting upbeat numbers from Jasmine Lee and trio; Melisa Demetriou, Reyyan Demetriou & Mya Akore to ‘Life is just a bowl of cherries’. We had more sister acts, from Ella and Katie Jauncey and Caitie Lund and Jasmine Lund. Senior dance club, Year 7 and Year 8 dance clubs demonstrated creativity and resilience to their polished numbers, in particular year 8 where 27 dancers squeezed on stage! Teah Gregory put on a well-choreographed solo gymnastics number to ‘Friend Like Me’ to finish the first half in style and for the final time as she leaves Presdales this year. We would like to thank Teah for everything she has done for the show behind the scenes and her leadership at Gymnastics Club since Year 7.

The second half of the evening led off with a fantastic showcase of skill, timing, and ambition; Gymnastics club, choreographed by Mrs Hicks to ‘Proud’. Following this, a variety of dance genres kept the audience captivated; including a classy ballroom piece from Cleo Lambourne. The second half was also full of beautiful duets from Lois Vinall and Mia Mundell, Lexie Rowley and Florence Webb, Sienna Akore and Olivia Coghlan. The Year 9 dance club put on a glitzy number to ‘One Night Only’ and the Year 7’s did a brilliant performance to ‘Man I feel like a woman’. The show finished with perfected solo’s from Olivia Kinnear, Amelia Dimitrova, Reyyan Demetriou. We finished the show with everyone on stage dancing to ‘Dancing Through Life’ and the audience clapping and enthusiastically cheering!

Finally, the Dale Dance Trophy Award this year was awarded to Sienna Akore for her incredible commitment to Dance during her 7 years at Presdales. Sienna has been a dance leader for many years and performed in Dance Evening every year, demonstrating how talented she is every single year with amazing choreography and performance. We will really miss you and thank you for being such a wonderful role model as a dancer and a dance leader.

Thank you to those who came to watch, we hope you had an enjoyable evening!

Mrs Dann and Mrs Hicks