The great and good of the Dance world gathered at the famous Wintergardens in Blackpool for this pretigious event to recongnise achievement across all levels and genres of dance. It is a bit like the BAFTA’s of the dance world and a near capacity crowd filled the Empress ballroom for this black tie occassion. The event includes a formal dinner, a number of superb cabarets, social dancing and of course the awards themsleves.
There were five nominations for our team which was in itself a great achievment and recognises the hard work of our open competitors. Nominated were Andrew & Dawn, Stuart & Andrea, Neil & Carla, Josh & Grace and ourselves, in the professional sequence category (which happily, we won!).
The following day, for those sober enough from the night before, the Icons titles took place also in the fabulous Empress ballroom and the competitors had the bonus of dancing to live music provided by the Empress Orchestra, a rare treat to be savoured. Three of our couples stayed to take part in this event. Andrew and Dawn were placed second in two of their events and third in the other one, Neil & Carla finished third in one of their events and fourth in the other two whilst Stuart & Andrea were placed second in all of their sequence events. For Stuart & Andrea it was also their first foray into the open ballroom competitions, which was something completely new to them. They danced extremely well for this first occasion being placed second in one of their events and fifth in the other. A great end to a lovely weekend and well done to everyone on their achievements over the whole weekend.
Well done everyone, looks like a wonderful evening!
Well done to you all. Looks like the evening was fun.