Jane Coleman School of Dancing
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Easter Dance Days 2022
Easter Dancing at Catsfield and Burwash!
Christmas Dance Days 2021
We enjoyed Christmas dancing, singing and activities at Catsfield and Burwash Village Hall. Here are some photos from our fun days!
Halloween Dance Days 2021
Over half term, at Catsfield Village Hall we had three wonderful Halloween dancing sessions. The days were full of Halloween fun, dancing and singing!
Thank you for all the effort made by the dancers in coming in such fantastic costumes. Everyone danced beautifully! Bunny Tip Toes made an appearance and loved spending the day with everyone. She is now getting ready to plan her Christmas dancing day! This will be advertised soon!
Disney Dance Day 2021
We had our first ever Disney Dance Day at Catsfield Village Hall! We sang and learnt dances to songs from Brave, The Little Mermaid and Lion King! Everyone made such an effort in wearing something bright, Disney and we even had some Princesses arrive in their costumes!
Thank you to everyone that attended, we had a wonderful time and had a perfect Disney Day!
Disney Dance Day in Catsfield Village Hall
Disney Dance Day in Catsfield Village Hall
Disney Dance Day in Catsfield Village Hall
Disney Dance Day in Catsfield Village Hall
Spirit of Dance Day 2020
Our first Spirit of Dance Day took place in Burwash Village Hall on 1st March 2020 and what a great day we had!
A wonderful workshop to start the day with Burwash Musical Theatre to work on our performance and acting through dance skills, followed by lunch, a tap showcase by our fantastic tappers, IDTA exam medal presentation, Choreographic Cup and finally our awards given out for Spirit of Dance. A big thank you to all our lovely parents, grandparents and carers for all your help and support on the day and thanks also go to the judges of the Choreographic Cup for doing a wonderful job and supporting our dancers.
We loved seeing lots of the JCSD family together and hope to make it even bigger next year -watch out for the date for your diaries!
The Jane Coleman Ballet Award -
Eve Still
Junior Performer Award -
Naomi Macfarlane
Senior Performer Award - Ellie Pascall
Junior Rising Star Award - Olive Golding
Senior Rising Star Award - Ella Dahlstedt
Most Improved Class - Burwash Grade Five Ballet -
Rose Macleay, Millie Dahlstedt, Ellie Pascall, Rachel Wilkinson, Ella Dahlstedt, Imogen Faulkner, Amelie Williams
JCSD Dancer of 2020 -
Darcy Penfold and Manasi Manjith
JCSD Dedication & Perseverance award- Maddy Webster, Grace Richards, Amelie Holton and Lily Watkins
Spirit of Dance Award 2020 (voted by the dancers of the school) -
Ella Dahlstedt
Choreographic Cup Winners 2020 -
Elsie Ball and Astrid Alexander
2nd place - Imogen Faulkner,
Eloise Cope and Millie Dahlstedt
3rd place - Darcy Penfold and Ella Dahlstedt
IDTA Examination Day
Huge congratulations to all of you that entered your IDTA examinations in December. Every one of you passed with flying colours and we are so proud of the hard work and dedication shown by you all.
Our next provisional date for IDTA exams will be in January and we will confirm the date ASAP.
Strictly Dance Day
Thank you to all those that came along for our first Strictly Dance Day - we had a great day and were so pleased with what you managed to achieve. We covered dances including Waltz, Cha Cha Cha, Samba, Jive, Paso Doble and even a bit of Charleston!
We will definitely run another Ballroom and Latin American session, so let us know if you would be interested to join the fun next time :-)
Summer Dance Camp- in Burwash Village Hall
What a fantastic time we had! 3 days of non stop beach party dancing fun :-)
Everyone worked so well together and really got stuck in with learning new styles of dance, we even tried some Acro! The support from the seniors for the juniors was wonderful to see and proved what a lovely dancing family we have.
Look out for details of our October 'Strictly' themed dance day!
Jane Coleman Birthday Tribute Show
What a show and what a wonderful tribute to Miss Jane!!! Thank you to all that came and supported our amazing dancing family. We are so proud of each and every one of them! Keep up the hard work :-)
JIA Fundraiser
They did it! Lily Watkins and friends power walked, cycled or ran13 miles around Bewl Water to raise funds and awareness for JIA - Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. A huge amount raised by the generous support of the community and here is a jubilant Lily on the home straight :-)
Race for Life- Walk or Run to Raise Funds for Cancer Research
Here are our lovely dancers and families raring to go for 'Race for Life' in Alexandra park Hastings. All to raise money for Cancer Research in memory of Miss Jane and yes, they did it pink tutus!! Well done to you all!