Kane Silver Workshop

On Sunday 1st of December, we welcomed Kane Silver to our studio to run a workshop for RN. Kane is a well sought after, teacher, choreographer and dance educator who has worked with the likes of Justin Bieber, Jason Derulo, Kelly Rowland, Nicole Scherzinger and Kylie Minogue to name a few. Kane runs the Ins and Outs dance programme and has recently been involved with choreographing couples choices for Strictly 2024. 

In a 3 hour intensive, he took us back to hip hop and house foundations, as well as drills whilst working on our stamina. It was an excellent workshop, not only for the students, but for the teachers as well and gave so much inspiration in his delivery and motivation to keep all the students going, whilst hyping the teachers up into a feel good party mood.

We definitely look forward to welcoming Kane back in the new year and we thank him for coming to our evergrowing school of growing talent..

Street Competition Chessington

Wow! What a day we all had at the South East Area Regional Street Competition.

Everyone danced amazingly. Best I’ve ever seen you all dance and we are incredibly proud of each and everyone one of you! Lots of trophies were brought home and everyone qualified in either all their categories or some of their categories for Nationwide in Blackpool.

SOLOS:
6-8years rosette
Kiki 3rd place

10-12 years
Zofia WINNER

13-15 years
Rachel WINNER
Bella 2nd place
Holly 7th place

16-18 years
Yasmin WINNER
Emily 2nd place

19-25 years
Danell WINNER
Jess 2nd place

PAIRS:
10-12 years
Nancy and Ruby 6th place

13-15 years
Tilly and Rachel 3rd place
Bella and Zofia 5th place

16-18 years
Emily and Jessie WINNERS
Megan and Sophie 6th place

19-25 years
Danell and Yasmin WINNERS

Teams
Up to 13 years
Next Gen WINNERS

14-17 years
Remain Nameless WINNERS

QUADS:
12 years and under
Poppy, Isla-Rae, Ruby, Nancy 6th place

14-17 years
Danell, Yasmin, Jacob, Josh WINNERS
Bella, Zofia, Annabelle, Holly 3rd place
Megan, Sophie, Faith, Anaya 6th place

Again we are so proud of each and everyone of you. Amazing day and results. Bring on Nationals in Blackpool xx

Freestyle Nationwide Competition

On Friday 8th November a selection of pupils travelled up to Blackpool to compete in the Nationwide Freestyle Competition held at the Winter Gardens. Ten pupils qualified for the team category which although we didn’t place they danced their very best and we are so proud of each and every one of them getting onto that floor and showcasing their work. We also had a few soloists compete, Danell Purdue and Kiki Quirk (our youngest competitor at 6 years old). We had a few pairs take to the floor too. Megan Searle and Jessica Soul, Danell Purdue and Jessica Hetherington. Also Emily McGuinnity and Danell Purdue competing in the Rock n Roll category. It was a very long weekend, however we had the best weekend with everyone and thoroughly enjoyed the very well run Freestyle Competition. Here’s to our next competition being held on Sunday 24th November for Street!! Bring it on!!

Diversity Workshop

On Sunday 6th October we took 53 people to attend another workshop at Diversity Studios. The group was split into one beginner/intermediate and one advanced group. They had the opportunity to learn choreo from Warren Russell and Perri Kiely and then perform in smaller groups to the rest of the team. They had photographs taken and programmes signed from Diversity’s last tour Supanova. They also had the opportunity to ask them questions about how they started dance, what they love the most about dancing and what is next for Diversity. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day and we are so pleased we can offer an opportunity like this to our pupils.

June Exams

Our set of exams in June 2024 were absolutely fantastic. We had our IDTA examiner Julie Sawyer to examine the students. We are extremely proud of every student and all achieved a pass rate of 83% and above! Have a look below at a few photos we have taken when handing out their medals in classes this week. 

Here’s to the December exams!!

Hannah Arbury Workshop

On Sunday 1st September we had one of our ex pupils Hannah Arbury come and teach a workshop to our RN group. Hannah trained with us from a very young age and at the age of 18 went on to further her dancing at Bird College. She has performed at Move It Dance Show and various other performances and her latest achievement has been starring in the new hit musical film Wicked. She now teaches various classes in London. She came with her own style to teach the students and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. Different style and different teacher allows the students to progress even more and see how London teachers teach. We will definitely invite her back to do another workshop and we at Fusion Dance Academies are very proud of all her successes so far. It’s just the beginning!!