Streetfest

At the Streetfest Festival held on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July Robyn Grimes from Yeovil Dancentre won the extra competition put in on the Saturday and the overall all ages winners on the Sunday were Maria Allen (age 9) and Kayleigh Andrews (age 8). Maria & Kayleigh are trained at the Yeovil Dancentre and will now be doing a display in September at the Weston Super Mare Streetfest - they will also be swithing on the Christmas Lights in Yeovil this year.

The judges at the Streetfest on Sunday were Nemesis, Ashanti and Akai and they picked Maria and Kayleigh from 25 acts.

UK CLOSED NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

At the recent United Kingdom Closed U12 Championships (one of the largest and most prestigious competitions for U12 in the country)Oliver Beardmore & Maria Allen from the Yeovil Dancentre achieved 7th place in the Latin 4 dance and in the U11 2 dance they were 2nd.

This up and coming couple were marked 1st by three judges in the U11 and are hoping to make the British National Finals later in the year and make the British Team.

LEN GOODMANS CAMBER SANDS

A large noumber of pupils from the Alen School of DAnce based at the Yeovil Dancentre attended Len Goodmans - from Strictly Come Dancing - competition at Camber Sands. It was a weekend full of competitions with pupils from the Allen School of Dance taking numerous prizes including 15 first places - 7 second places and 11 third places.

Further photos can be seen on our website.

Charity Team Match Day

Sunday February 7th saw the Yeovil Dancentre charity team match day in aid of the Somerset & Dorset Air Ambulance and the Haiti earthquake disaster. Top independent adjudicator Julie Williams from Wales came down to judge all the competitions. There were team matches in under 12, under 16, 16 to 35 and over 35. Each team was made up of 4 couples from pupils of the Yeovil Dancentre. There were also numerous couple competitions with trophies for all finalists sponsered by conexions.

The day was a real fun day with over 150 people paying to take part or watch the competitions - over £1700 was raised for the charities.