Singletons Dance Academy bring home 43 medals from This Is Dance contest

Students of Singletons Dance Academy, Rochdale, reigned supreme at the This Is Dance competition in Chester on Sunday (14 July), with every dancer winning a medal.

The students brought home an impressive 43 medals, every one for a first, second or third place position. Since January, students at Singletons have won over 150 medals and trophies for their performances.

Solo performances

Emily Crooks

• Contemporary – first
• Contemporary duet – first
• Lyrical – second
• Jazz – second
• Jazz duet – third

Alana Percy

• Jazz – first
• Contemporary duet
• Contemporary – second
• Jazz duet – third

Lucy Ogden

• Lyrical – first
• Jazz – first

Beatrice Sutton

• Lyrical – first
• Jazz – second

Annabel Crooks

• Lyrical – first
• Tap – first
• Jazz – first
• Lyrical duet – second
• Jazz duet – second

Summer Hoyle

• Street – first
• Lyrical – second
• Jazz duet – second
• Lyrical duet – second

Caitlin Lynam

• Song and dance – second
• Lyrical – third

Charley Wood

• Contemporary duet – first
• Lyrical – second
• Jazz – third

Liana Cheetham

• Lyrical – first
• Jazz – second

Lewis Stokes

• Street – second

Annabella Bentley

• Acro – first

Estelle Percy

• Contemporary duet – first

Groups

• Oceano – trio – first
• His daughter – junior contemporary – first
• Survivor – senior jazz – second
• Believer – senior jazz – first
• Rise up – senior contemporary – first
• Body Love – senior contemporary – first
• Unsteady – senior contemporary – third

Other awards

• Overall highest mark trio – Oceano
• Highest mark duet – Alana Percy and Emily Crooks
• Most memorable contemporary performance – Emily Crooks
• Scholarship contemporary winner – Alana Percy

Owner Gemma Singleton said: “We’ve never really done that many competitions as we do two exams a year, plus the panto at Gracie Fields Theatre, and our annual show there.

“This year, we decided to do some for the experience, and everyone has done fantastically well.

“I’m quite lucky in that I get to choreograph the dances, and see the moves brought to life by our dancers.”

Singletons Dance Academy was set up in 2006 by Gemma, and provides ballet, tap, modern jazz, theatre craft, street jazz, singing, drama and comp dances for all ages.

A former pupil, Abbie Holt, was awarded a scholarship last summer to The Hammond, a prestigious performing arts school in Chester, after 12 years of performing with Singleton’s Dance Academy.

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