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News and reports from dance schools and academies

Chater Dance Academy

The Chater Dance Academy are so excited to take 38 dancers to dance at the O2 in London this June!!! We love providing all our students with so many performance opportunities! After 46 years, Miss Pam has decided rather than chaperone, she will sit back and enjoy the show!! We have more exciting adventures planned for 2024!

Helen Guy Dance Academy

Backstage photos of our Annual School Show ‘Once Upon A Time’, held in March 2023.

The Midlands Enterprise Awards, organised by SME News.

I am delighted to say we won the Dance School of the Year West Midlands — SME Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award 2023.

Gillian Pilkington

Each year our local Council recognise individuals who contribute to their community services. The Town Council have contacted me to say that they would like me to receive one of this year’s awards for my commitment to fundraising for both National and Local charitable causes and, in so doing, for enriching the lives of children through my dance schools many and varied events that I have arranged to encourage children to give their best and, therefore, build confidence.

have won this and know that my dance parents are behind me every step of the way.

The dance school also recently celebrated one year of its rebranding from Julie Johnson School of Dancing to Emma’s Dance Academy ��. We celebrated these achievements with an all-blue party day at the dance school!

I was always involved in Miss Margaret Jones dance school shows from age three, regularly raising money for various charities. From 1994, when I opened my dance school, I continued to put on shows and numerous events, raising money for various charities. My first dance school show raised enough money to buy and train a Guide Dog for the blind!

My last dance school shows in 2022 raised £7,246.43 over three performances for a charity supporting children with cancer in memory of one of my students Sally Cornes.

I feel very honoured to have been nominated and then received this award, but I couldn’t have done this without all the support from my family, staff, students, parents, and supporters of my dance school.