Dance Festival Regional Semi Final Results

The semi finals were recently held at Berkhamsted and our pupils were so very close to achieving the National Finals narrowly missing out. Please see the results and pictures of the day below.
Jessica Norman
Ballet Solo Bronze with Honours
Lyrical Solo 5th place with Honours
Modern Solo placed 6th with Honours
Jessica Handley
Ballet Solo Honours
Rosaleen Stoyonova and Jorja Hockley
 Modern Duet Honours
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Latest Achievements

Fantastic, well done to all of you and your exceptional teachers

Jessica Norman
Qualified English National Ballet Associate programme

Estelle Bannister-Walker
Royal Ballet Junior Associate programme 2nd year

Tiano Galvao 
Central School of Ballet Associate programme


Emma Williams
Place offered at Ballet Theatre UK

New Streetdance Team Display Class

We now have the above class on Sundays 10.30-11.30 for age 12-16 years. Pupils from our Streetdance classes will be selected to attend based on their skill level and this team class will then focus on developing further their techniques and skills in order to perform in display and competition events. This is designed to be fun whilst significantly improving the ability of the pupils. Please feel free to come along and try out our classes and join or work towards joining this Display class.

Dance Festivals 2023

Please see below a slideshow of our pupils who participated in the recent Dance Festivals at Chesham and Luton the results of which can be found on our 'Dance Festival' page



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NEW CLASSES EVERY THURSDAY

ACRO AND STRETCH

Acro and Stretch is a floor based acrobatic art.

In this class pupils will gain strength and flexibility in order to perform acrobatic moves such as splits, walk-overs, backward rolls, balances, lifts, flips, spot partners, and much more both in pairs and groups.

Thursday
4.45-5.30PM 5-8 years

5.30-6.30 8-14 years

Please contact Suzanne via 'suzanneware@sky.com' for further details or call our shop on 01895 631858
Thank you 

Patron 
We are delighted to announce that Anna-Rose O'Sullivan has agreed to become our Patron. Anna-Rose is a Principal soloist with the Royal Ballet Company. Please see below a Foreword from her. 

'I trained at Suzanne’s School of Dance until age 11 before entering The Royal Ballet School.
Some of my happiest dancing memories come from taking part in the exciting Beck Theatre annual performances and travelling around England competing in the festivals.
The concept was to perform, to learn, and to most importantly enjoy every moment.
The ethos of this school is fantastic!
Every child has the opportunity to dance freely and to express themselves learning from unique teachers with highly trained backgrounds and experience.
From the ballet studio to adulthood I now have life lasting friendships from my time spent at the school.
Thank you to Suzanne for supporting my dream of becoming Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet.
This Dance School provides a caring environment that enables every individual the opportunity to explore how the performing arts can so positively influence young people's lives.
I am proud to have started my dancing journey here at Suzanne’s!

MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS TO FYFE SKINNER!
Massive congratulations to Fyfe Skinner, a long time pupil of ours, for passing the recent auditions and gaining entry into Elmhurst Ballet School based in Birmingham. He will be starting there this autumn and all teachers and staff here wish him every success. The picture is of Fyfe taken after his Gold medal win at the 2019 All England Dance Finals .  

Luton Dance Festival results 2022

Our first Dance Festival since Covid still produced many tremendous results with many of our performers (below) qualifying for the All England finals. Please see the detailed results on our Dance Festival page.  



 Anna-Rose O'Sullivan - Principal Royal Ballet Company

We are so proud and delighted to announce that Anna-Rose O'Sullivan, a former pupil of Suzanne's School of Dance, has recently been made a Principal of the Royal Ballet Company. Anna-Rose started dancing with us at the age of 3 years until she went to Royal Ballet School at the age of 11 years along with Georgia Ware and Rachel Ware who was already there.

She does come back to visit us on a regular basis to provide our students with valuable coaching and advice. 


She is such a beautiful dancer, a lovely person, and we know she will have a long and successful career.

Latest Achievements 2021

We are so proud to announce the following seniors have been offered places at vocational schools listed below.
These girls have been with us for many years, some since their first grades, and we will be sad to see them go but happy that they have secured places to follow their dreams.

Keeva Martin-Casey. Central School of Ballet
Lily Doyle.             Ballet Theatre UK
Abbie Crook.         Laine Theatre Arts
Sienna Tedeschini.    Laine Theatre Arts
Poppy Austen    Arts Educational School
Jessica Owen.       Arts Educational School

Yasmine Naghdi Workshop

Principal of The Royal Ballet Company


Wow! What a wonderful workshop Yasmine gave our pupils on 14 February. The interest in this workshop extended beyond the more senior pupils to little ones who just wanted to watch and copy her much to the delight of parents. So nice to see and to hear them ask questions afterwards.  Yasmine was very thorough, patient, and enthusiastic so a big thank you for your time. 

Danielle Cato
West End Workshop

We would like to thank Danielle Cato for her informative and inspiring West End Workshop on Zoom which has received very positive feedback from all who participated. Danielle has performed in numerous West End shows including 42nd Street, We Will Rock You, Cats, Carousel, West Side Story, Fame, Grease, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She has also starred in the Film of 42nd Street, The Olivier Awards, and So You Think You Can Dance.