Photo shoot with Dolce vita

Managed to fit in a photoshoot with Dolce vita a new band at the Oriental Club Mayfair

that plays the cool tones of Italiano !

Cardiff part nights!

This month has been like being on a uk tour!

from Wherwell to London about 9  times ! 

a trip to Sidcup, Southampton,Windsor ,and Blackpool twice!!!

and Cardiff !!!

First time I had been to Cardiff in a very long time, got a quick feel of the place and looks like a great city ! nice shops and restaurants ! I went to do another Christmas Party Nights 

A really good concept! thanks to David and Tony of Impact Aritists 

Christmas party nights in Windsor!

Worked on Christmas party nights at Windsor Race coarse

Circus of Dreams ! A great fun night out  with fab acts and dancers !

Invite to Windsor Castle To meet HRH HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN!

Very honoured to be invited to Windsor Castle  to meet Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh

In honour of the Queens 90th Birthday celebrations, A special evening  one that I will always cherish

very informal and the Queen was warm and charming  as ever , how wonderful that she makes everyone at ease ..

How incredible she is  after the year she has had....a real Honour..

Torquay!

In November went down to torquay to stage the Trevor George Showcase  we stayed at 

the Darlington Hall a gem of a place ....  the autumn leaves were stunning !

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Dame Vera Lynn

Just to say we are thrilled to be working on Dame Vera Lynn 100 Birthday celebration next March

18th at the London Palladium, We are in planning stages ! So its a exciting  venture!  went to the Palladium for site visit, it still thrills me walking on the stage .. such history....

 

costumes designed for the festive season!

can't  believe its that time of year ! getting costumes created 

for the festive season!

DOLCA VITA LIVE

Looking forward to working with the Band !

Generation Dance!

Great to see all at the Generation Dance class for October !

LOVE  to  see all dance again... and have fun...

 

The Arnould school

A great day teaching with fond affection to the ARNOUD School

of Dance and Drama, we go back a long way...  Norma Arnold and Vicky McDonald .. bless the good old days !    and dear Phyllis ... bless her ...the students were lovely to be with... 

and hope they had fun !

TRIP TO BLACKPOOL

A trip to Blackpool... for Dougie to receive his Carl ALAN AWARD,

Great to see friends  but I got creamed ! the last time that happened  I was filming 

Bugsy Malone... can't believe that was 40 years ago !

Dougie wins a Carl Alan!

Proud to say Dougie won a Carl Alan award for services  to Dance !

THE CARL ALAN AWARDS 2016

Once again an excellent entertaining and fulfilling evening was organised and presented by the Theatre Dance Council International for the Annual Carl Alan Awards 2016 Ceremony at Paradise Rooms Blackpool on October the 8th.The Oscars of the dance world and were awarded in Three Dance categories Theatre, Free Style and Street

The Carl Alan nominees are special people who in some form have made a significant contribution to world of Dance.

The audience were dressed to befit the occasion and there were some outstandingly stunning outfits worn by the enthusiastic audience who entered into the ceremonial spirit of the occasion of celebrating Dance in its many forms.

Phil Winston’s Theatreworks opened the cabaret and performing two contrasting performances .The glamourous opening fitting for the occasion and the contrasting finale with dynamic choreography from the talented students of Theatreworks. Guest dancers Kalim Badenhurst Free Style,Ali Rasul ,Theatre and Kyron Anthony ,street All made a big impression, on the various styles of the Awards.

The excellent vocal talents of Lee Ormsby rounded off the cabaret with a powerful selection of Musical Theatre most popular hit songs .

The award ceremony Presented by Linda Cook, President of TDCI and compere General Secretary Chris Booth of TDCI

The awards were in five categories of awards in each section of Theatre,freestyle & street Dance... Congratulations to all the nominees.

The Winners of 2016 Carl Alan Awards,

THEATRE.
PERFORMERS AWARD, KADE FERRAIOL.
TEACHERS AWARD, VANESSA HOOPER.
CHOREOGRAPHERS AWARD, SIR MATTHEW BOURNE O.B.E. OUTSTANDING SERVICES AWARD, DOUGIE SQUIRES O.B.E. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, PAT LUPINO THOMPSON

 

 

FREESTYLE
PERFRORMERS AWARD, KALIM BADENHURST TEACHERS AWARD, LORRAINE HASTING

CHOREOGRAPHERS AWARD, DARREN CARLES & TONI LOUISE ARMSTRONG. OUTSTANDING SERVICES, DENISE BAKER.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, MOYA JORDAN

STREET DANCE
PERFORMERS AWARD, CHRIS AND WEZ

TEACHERS AWARD, SAMANTHA VALE.
CHOREOGRAPHERS AWARD OMAR AWUAH.
OUTSTANDING SERVICES, CLARE MILES.
LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD , FRED REALNESS FOLKES

 

flash back 5 years

A flash back of a crazy day in my time in Blackpool, breaking the world record of 8000 Brownies learning the cha cha slide .. we did classes all day teaching 8000 ! then at 5pm they performed it all over the park.... and we broke the record... fun when you look back !