Bournemouth Dance Festival 2023

What an amazing week our students had at Bournemouth Festival! Medals of every colour, personal best marks, new dances on the stage and even some qualifications for Regionals! We’re so proud of them and what they all achieved. As always, thanks go to teachers, parents, family and friends for supporting them to live their best lives!

A fabulous start to Bournemouth Festival, with Lily-Mae and Dulcie winning Gold for their new Contemporary duet! 🥇🥇👏

This trio! 💚💙❤️ Maddie, Rebekah and Millie brought tons of Tap Trio technique, attitude and style to the stage, and came away with Silver medals 🥈🥈🥈. Congratulations girls – we love this routine! 👏👏👏

Gorgeous performances in Ballet and Modern from Millie at Bournemouth Festival.


Kitty and Dulcie brought home Gold for their Narrative Duet. Lovely comments from the adjudicator about our Ugly Sisters!

Look at this lovely lot! So proud of all our 11&12 years Modern soloists – Ollie, Kitty, Indi, Jessica and Dulcie. Ollie’s intensity and focus impressed the adjudicator so much that he won Bronze with 87, which means he also qualifies for Regionals! The adjudicator also called forward Kitty, Jessica and Dulcie for a mention. Well done to all our dancers – that was a strong section, we are very proud of you!

Poppy and Kitty performed their new Musical Theatre duet from the Book of Mormon for the first time, and won Bronze medals in the process! Congratulations girls on a fantastic performance 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 and Kitty is still in character in this picture 😂

It was a great day at Bournemouth Festival for our Inter Lyrical duets… Dulcie and Kitty won Gold 🥇🥇 and Florence and Jessica won Silver🥈🥈. What fabulous results – congratulations, girls!

Florence and Ruby both danced beautifully in their Novice Lyrical section, with Florence winning Gold 🥇! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💙

The adjudicator loved Rebekah and Millie’s Tap Duet partnership on stage at Bournemouth Festival . Tip top tapping by these two! 💙👏🏻👏🏻💙

Both our Inter Musical Theatre duets medalled at Bournemouth Festival. Congratulations to Ollie and Dulcie who were awarded 88 marks (qualifying for Regionals) and Gold 🥇🥇, and Katy and Kitty who won Bronze with 85 marks 🥉🥉.

Bronze medals for Dulcie and Lily-Mae for their Tap duet at Bournemouth Festival. Well done girls! 🥉🥉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Congratulations to our Peanuts Musical Theatre trio who won Gold and qualified for Regionals at Bournemouth Festival! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥇🥇🥇

Our fabulous Rosie scooped Gold for her Novice Modern solo! What a fantastic achievement!🥇👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Another fabulous Gold at Bournemouth Festival for Florence in her Novice Tap solo. We’re very proud!

Our Inters were Musical Theatre-tastic at Bournemouth Festival! Here are four of our girls after their Solos, including Katy with her fabulous Bronze medal and 86 marks, taking her through to Regionals 🥉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Dulcie and Kitty were called forward for fourth place with 85 marks. Congratulations on your amazing performances, everyone!

Our final Bournemouth Festival news… congratulations to Ollie who was given the Adjudicator’s award for most promising male dancer! Ollie had amazing results throughout the week, including Bronze in Modern, Silver in Ballet and Gold in Musical Theatre duet with Dulcie! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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