Congratulations – Central School of Dance

A day at the Royal Ballet School! 🥰 What an exciting day for Central student Pia 💖 We were so excited when Pia managed to get a place at the Royal Ballet schools associate ballet day. A special historical workshop in memory of Nicola Gains. The dancers were treated to a full day of dance. Being dropped off at the stunning Royal Ballet studios in Covent Garden at 10.30am. They were split in 5 groups and parents could the go back at 4pm to watch the different dances that each group had learnt. Strict photo rules meant unfortunately we couldn’t get a photo of Pia inside the studio but it’s safe to say a wonderful day was had, they were all amazing and all so talented learning a dance in a day. Pia’s choreography included the use of a scarf as a prop. A truly magical experience and Pia loved wearing the ‘official’ royal ballet leotard 😊 we are so proud of you 🥰

Amazing 💫💫💫💫 Today we celebrate Central alumna Josie 🤩 Josie is currently working at ‘COME ALIVE!’ THE OFFICIAL GREATEST SHOWMAN ‘CIRCUS SPECTACULAR’ A bit about the show….. An epic spectacular inspired by the 20th Century Fox Motion Picture. ‘COME ALIVE!’ staring the finest international circus stars (Cirque de Demain Medal Winners, Cirque du Soleil) and musical theatre talent from the West End. Josie danced with Central for many years shining in our shows and coming back as an adult and achieving her advanced modern exams. Josephine’s background is in artistic gymnastics and dance. Two years ago, she stumbled upon the circus and fell in love with its artistry, the sensation of flying, and the incredible community. From this moment, Josephine trained every hour that she wasn’t working. We are utterly delighted for Josie, she is and always has been an absolute delight to teach full of positive energy and we couldn’t be happier for her to be out there living her dream and shining on the big stage. Such a brave, strong, beautiful dancers and acrobat.

Lucie…Words aren’t enough…. Beyond PROUD of this beautiful ballerina. 🥹 Lucie has just made her debut professional performance dancing with The Birmingham Royal Ballet in their production of Cinderella. 🤩 Lucie danced with us from a tiny dot and made her way from babies up to Advanced 2. I remember her saying she wanted to be a ballerina and from that day on she was all in. If there was a masterclass, intensive course, performance she was there. Dancing with the London Children’s Ballet, Ballet boost, National youth ballet, Yorkshire ballet Seminars, Performance platform competition, You name it… she was there! Huge credit to her wonderful mum who supported and drove her to all these opportunities. At Sixteen she graduated from us with not 1 but 4 amazing upper school offers. Deciding on Elmhurst and moving up to Birmingham there were plenty of tears at our final show! We have continued to support and follow Lucie through her 3 year course, welcoming her back to perform at our prize givings and being amazed every time at her progress and loving watching her dance at the international Margot Fonteyn ballet competition. Graduating from Elmhurst this summer the hard work really began going out into the big wide world and auditioning for jobs. But Wow 😳 what an amazing first job! Signing a contract with The Birmingham Royal Ballet Lucie is currently on a tour of the UK in their production of Cinderella before going to perform in Tokyo. Then on to a tour of Japan dancing in Sleeping Beauty 😳 We can’t express how proud we are of you. You are so so deserving of this. From the tiny little girl who said she wanted to dance to the beautiful lady you are now living your dream. The saying goes hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work…. BUT … combine hard work with talent and there is no stopping you! Super star 💫

Congratulations 🥳 After completing the summer course at Rambert, Central student Anna was offered a place on the pre/voc course, which takes place every Saturday. The pre vocational course is a year long ballet and contemporary training and performance programme for students preparing to apply for vocational dance training We are so so proud of Anna, what a wonderful achievement and such a fantastic step towards vocational training. Anna is one of our Advanced 2 students and we cannot wait to see her progress over the next two years.

What an amazing time we had watching the Fonteyn competition at His Majesty’s Theatre.
The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition is the Royal Academy of Dance's flagship annual event.
The competition is one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world, attracting the finest young dancers trained in the RAD syllabus, from around the globe.
Centrals alumna student @lucie_ballet_xx was a semi finalist and it was our absolute pleasure and delight to watch her dancing in specially choreographed piece by Valentino Zucchetti.
This year's panel of judges includes: Dame Darcey Bussell, Aaron Watkin and Amanda Britton.
An amazing evening watching the up and coming stars ⭐️ huge congratulations to all who competed and of course this years winners.

MATILDA 🥰 📚 The biggest of CONGRATULATIONS to @shayla_mccormack we had the most amazing time watching you in Matilda.
What a star ⭐️ you were truly fantastic. Massively proud teachers and you should be so proud of yourself Shayla.
Hard work pays off.

A wonderful evening out watching our student perform on the west end… again!
Amazing xxxxx 💫

Miss Lucy has been an inspiration to the pupils and will be greatly misses as she leaves us for University. After obtaining her Ad2 in all genre, Lucy took a gap year gaining her teaching certs..

We are beyond proud and excited for Sabina who has successfully auditioned and received a place at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary dance. Sabina has an unconditional offer for the FD/BA hons course for ballet and contemporary dance. We are so happy for you and could see how ecstatic you were to have been offered your place to start in September. A truly wonderful achievement for a beautiful dancer inside and out.

Huge congratulations to Aimee Wright who has accepted a place studying performing arts at LAMDA from September.
She was offered places at both LAMDA and Mountview and had the hard decision of deciding which one to accept.
We are all so delighted for her. Well done Aimee!

Shayla

SUPER STAR Absolutely blown away!! Oh my goodness, proud doesn’t even come close. We had the absolute pleasure to go and see Central student Shayla playing a lead role on the West End! We are truly delighted for her. Shayla went through a tough audition process to land the role of Jane Banks in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward theatre. Last night we were blown away, playing such a huge part on a massive stage, singing solos, dancing, acting, honestly, we couldn’t have been more proud. She absolutely smashed it! Shayla is so deserving of this amazing role, having always worked so hard, being dedicated and driven to make her dream come true. Her talent absolutely shone on that stage.

Olivia

Massive congratulations . Central student Olivia has successfully auditioned and attained a place at the Classical Ballet Academy at Tring Park. We are so proud and delighted for her. Can’t wait to hear all about it. How fabulous does she look in her new tracksuit. CBA is designed to discover talented girls and boys aged between 8-16 years and provide them with a high level of pre-vocational classical training. The programme complements the student's individual training with their regular ballet school and gives them an opportunity to work with other talented children who share the same goals and ambitions to have a career in dance. Absolutely wonderful news xxxx

Lucie

4 AMAZING UPPER SCHOOL OFFERS👏 Central student Lucie has had a super tough decision to make having received 4 fabulous upper school offers after a very challenging audition year! After a difficult decision she has accepted a place at Elmhurst Ballet School. We are absolutely delighted for you! Having taught you since you were a tiny 2year old we are going to miss you so so much. Your hard work and dedication has been rewarded and we can not wait to see how your future develops. Stay in touch xx. Posted @withregram • @lucie_ballet_xx I’m very excited to announce after a hard audition process and a long 2 week deliberation over upper school offers, I have decided to accept my place at @elmhurstballetschool and I will be attending in September 2021, starting my 3 year intensive training in Birmingham and I am soooo excited!! I would like to thank @centraldanceschool for helping me discover my love for ballet and personally supporting me for 12 years!! You have been like a second home to me since the age of 2 and I can’t imagine life without you all thanks for helping me grow as a person and dancer over my life I’m really going to miss you 😢 I’d like to thank my amazing, wonderful mum @appihoward I am SOOO grateful to you for supporting me with whatever happens in life and constantly going far out of your way to help me achieve my dreams you are my ultimate mumager I can’t thank you enough for all the things you have done for me I love you so much!💕. Photo: Thank you Jon @jonraffouldancephotography for this amazing shot so grateful for your help!

Beth

Following what can only be described as the most difficult of years for auditioning Beth has been offered places at Laine Theatre Arts, London Studio Centre, Italia Conti Academy and Tring Park. We are beyond proud 😀 After lots of deliberation she has accepted a boarding place at Tring Park and has received a full sponsorship for the first year!! Beth will be starting in September studying the Musical Theatre Course along side 3 A-levels. You are going to be hugely missed by your teachers and peers but we are absolutely delighted for you. Promise to stay in touch and we look forward to seeing what the future brings for you ❤️ ✨congratulations ✨

Georgina

So proud of the beautiful Georgie Loader . More audition success 😃 Georgina has been offered a place at the Urdang Academy on the one year foundation course in dance and musical theatre. Audition processes this year have been challenging and we are absolutely delighted for our students. They have overcome so many obstacles and now our gcse and a level ladies get to enjoy some down time with the exams finally done. Huge congratulations to you George.

Francesca

Congratulations MORE student success 😀We are absolutely delighted for Advanced student Fran Mountney who has been offered a place at Performers College, Birmingham for the 3-year BA (Hons) Musical Theatre and Dance degree. After such a tough year and an audition process like never before our students have achieved so much and we are beyond proud of them. Such a fabulous achievement, we are going to miss you but can’t wait to hear about your course. Make sure to come visit us xx

WHAT CAN WE SAY - ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!!!

Thank you to our entire team as well as our students and their families who trusted us to move from studio to our on line virtual classes, to everyone who rearranged their home spaces and took their classes so seriously through thick and thin. We would like to thank all teachers who offered their time and effort in making our online classes so unique, caring, engaging, personalised, attentive and professional. It was hot, it was hard work , over 14 weeks together we delivered 25 dance classes and 36 drama classes per week. We were joined by students from London, Wolverhampton, Cornwall, Ireland, The Lake District and Greece

March Ballet Exams 2020

Students from Primary to Advanced 1 were able to take their ballet exams despite lock down. The Royal Academy of Dance agreed to accept recordings and with the help of All Media works who kindly lent equipment, free of charge, we were able to film the exams, just in time. We had to wait until July for the results however we are so proud and delighted for our students who all achieved outstanding marks, in difficult times. CONGRATULATIONS t

Anna Romhany

We are truly delighted and extremely proud of our student Anna, who successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet School's Junior Associate programme. Anna starts her associate classes at the Royal Ballet School this September Cannot wait to hear all about it

Lucie Apicella-Howard

Lucie was with London Children's Ballet - the canterville Ghost performing last week performing Thursday - Sunday at the Peacock Theatre.

Lucie had been in the theatre rehearsing for two days and it was very exciting when Lauren Cuthbertson came to see all the dancers in the dressing room!

Cannot wait to hear all about it

Intensive Dance Course

Alana Marland-Brown, Hannah Cope and Alice Keely were invited to attend a two day Intensive Easter dance course at the Centre Pac

We hope they had an amazing time with this wonderful opportunity

Cannot wait to hear all about it

Congratulations Robert

Having attended a course at the Royal Academy, Robert Eager was awarded a prize of a weeks free summer course and invited to an evening with the RAD. Celebrating and Inspiring the next generation of male dancers at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hyde Park.
CONGRATULATIONS Robert, so proud

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