Here is a teaser clip for you taken at our stage rehearsals on the 28th of November of our concert 2016.
Can’t wait to see it in costume on Wednesday………
Chic – Expressions Through Style
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Modern And Hip Hop Exams 2016
This year Margie Wells from Johannesburg came to examine our girls. Well done to all who danced, we are extremely proud of you.
Here are some photographs of the dancers before they went in.
Top Marks (85% and above) for These Exams went to:
Mari Rodgers, Jani Slabbert, Karla Muller, Kayla Oosthuizen, Leah Saunders, Chane Scholtz, Anja Wagner, Abbygail Robertson, Ane Minnaar, Danielle Du Preez, Kaitlynne Horne, Ashleigh Maling Nel and Zanri Black.
Here are some of the photo’s taken over the exam session.
Tijane Visser
Steffany Botha and Izelle van der Westhuizen
Ilze Fourie
Jessica Barnard and Valmarie van Zyl
Hip Hoppers
Jane Venter
Elandri Venter and Bridgette
Mia Cilliers and Karla Viviers
Hip Hoppers
Leah da Cruz
Danielle Du Preez and Kaylin Forlee
Kaitlynne Horne and Marie Louise Strydom
Judy Botes and Carli Human
Tiane and Jani Slabbert
Chiara Torrente and Mikayla Bouwer
Zanri Blick and Ashleigh Maling Nel
Berdine Viljoen
Megan Calder
Ane Minnaar and Mari Rodgers
Kyla Malherbe and Leane Muller
Abbygail Robertson and Anja Wagner
Ella Smit
Karla Muller and Kayla Oosthuizen
Leah Saunders, Madison Delport and Hannah Delport
Festival 2016
Wow, what a hectic two weeks we have had.
Dance Festival 2016 is almost over and wow, you are all doing us proud. A lot of you went and did a solo for the first time ever, and this is something that not a lot of people would be able to do.
We started off with the modern and hip hop and this was adjudicated by Mr. Sean Bovim.
The ballet followed on from this and it was adjudicated by Dianne Cheeseman.
Here are some photo’s of our beautiful dancers.
Kaylin and Ashleigh
Karla and Zanri
Berdine and Desmare
Zanri, Isabella and Marie-Louise
Carli, Berdine and Desmare
Berdine and Desmare
Cara and Clarissa
Hannah, Anja and Gemma
Ashleigh and Kaitlynne
Jane
Ashleigh, Zanri, Einon and Lize
Meriska and Lize
Marie-Louise and Elizma
Gabbi and Desmare
Chanel
Zoe
Mekayla and Kaylee
Gabbi and Karla
Shaugneen and Amber
Jime
Mari
Reeva, Einon and Meriska
Meriska, Einon and Karla
Zanri
Kaitlynne
Holly, Amber and Valmarie
Congratulations
Gold Awards which only awarded to the top performances deserve a special mention here:
Karla Strydom
Ashleigh Maling Nel
Freaks Like Us – Berdine Viljoen and Desmare De Lange
Anja Wagner
Kaitlynne Horne
Einon Doubell
Elizma Ferreira
Jessica Barnard
Holly Whitfield x 2 and our 2016 Junior Ballet Champion.
May Ballet Exams – Congratulations Students!
Well done to all our pupils for doing exceptionally well in the May Ballet Exams. We are very proud of you all.
The results arrived earlier than expected this year, so we can all go off and enjoy our July Holidays knowing the verdicts.
An extra special congrats to the following girls for getting very well earned distinctions:
Holly Whitfield – 90 % which was the highest result in the studio.
Zoe Maree
Minandi Venter
Katelynne Horne
Cassidy Kwong See
Liza-Marli Swanepoel
Keep up the good work.
Grade 8 – Izelle and Steffany
We would like to give a huge thank you to Amelia and Mikayla- Leigh Lombard for the lovely donation of a selection of cool drinks and water which the dancers really appreciated when they came out of the exam room.
We would also like to thank all the families of the dancers for their support and helping to make this a special exam session for us all.
The dancers all looked beautiful and were very well groomed – thank you Moms and Dads.
We started our ballet exams with our Grade 8’s from Jeffreys Bay on the 14th of May. Mrs. Deanne Irvine came to examine this year.
We continued on Monday the 16th of May starting off with our first set of Pre-Primaries. They were all very excited to be doing their first exam. The most difficult part for them was trying to remember the examiners name.
Pre-Primary
Mari, Chanel, Ane, Ndiya, Lumi, Rebekah and Cazlyn
Grade 6 Ballet
Holly, Sarah and Lisa Marli
Marie Louise and Karleigh Then in Pre Primary Together
Grade 2
Karleigh and Marie Louise Now
It was bitter sweet for some. We are losing our dear little dancer from Grade 2, Karleigh to New Zealand shortly, so this will be her last exam with us.
Karleigh and Marie-Louise have been entering together since they were in Pre-Primary. You can see how much they have grown by the photos below.
Grade 4
Mikayla-Leigh, Gabriella and Bianca
Grade 5
Kaylee, Natasha, Rachael and Casey
Grade 2
Meriska, Lize, Elizma and Katelynne
Primary
Hannah, Zoe and Clarice
Grade 3
Ritae, Ashleigh and Zanri
Grade 5
Micaela and Larisha
Grade 2
Cassidy, Einon, Kaitlynne and Desmare
We continued with our exam session on the 17th of May with more of the Jeffreys Bay Girls.
Our cute little pre-primaries were first to entertain our examiner.
Performance awards were the popular choice for our older Jeffreys’ Bay Girls this year.
Pre-Primary
De-ane, Zelne, Elze, Cara and Abbygail
Primary
Anja and Mia
Performance Awards
Grade 2 and Grade 3
Cindy, Anei and Minandi
On Sunday the 22nd of May our Vocational Girls did their exam at St Thomas along with our long time pianist Verna.
Amber, Verna and Shaugneen
Advanced 1 Amber and Advanced Foundation Shaugneen
First Term Almost Gone Already
We just can’t believe the first term of 2016 is already dead and gone. The time has flown past and as usual, there are not enough hours in the day to get everything done.
Some of our cute Pre Primary’s
Most of the first term went by in a blur as we pushed for the ballet girls to learn all their work in preparation for the May Exams. They took in a lot and did extremely well with the short time they had, but we will need to do some serious polishing during the new term.
The modern and hip hop exams are only at the end of the year, so we have more time there, but we still have a lot of work to cover.
We are getting 12 new grades of hip hop work taught to us during the April Holidays, so we are looking forward to something fresh and exciting to teach next term. The hip hoppers have been doing mostly open work this term and preparing for the concert on the 30th of November, so it is not a last minute rush after their exams.
Stepping Stones Modern
Grade 2 Ballet
2nd Grade Modern
Here are some pics taken during the last week of term of some of the Lorraine classes, when our theme was ‘Something Pink.’ The Jeffrey’s
Grade 5 Ballet
bay pictures will be put on the FaceBook Page.
Tuesday Primary Class
Tuesday Grade 2 Class
Mischievous Grade 3 Class
Grade 4’s pretty in pink.
Happy Holidays!
How To Do A Perfect Ballet Bun
Here is a great video for those of you who want to know how to do your daughters hair, or even your own.
Seasons of Dance
Modern and Hip Hop Exams 2015
Hayley and Mia before 3rd Grade
On the 4th, 5th, 8th and 10th of November we held our annual Modern and Hip Hop Exam Session at the Studio.
Carli and Shannon did PreLim Junior
Izelle and Steffany tired after their Intermediate Exam
A very vibrant Carole Sampson came to examine the girls and every dancer had a ball performing for Mrs Sampson.
Some of my photos are missing in action on my camera, but these are a few of the highlights for the session.
Honours with Distinction this year went to Kaitlynne Horne, Juliette Bradshaw, Ilze Fourie, Jessica Barnard, Peter Lee Ching, and Izelle van der Westhuizen.
Honours went to Steffany Botha, Berdine Viljoen and Megan Calder,
In the Hip Hop, Da Bomb went to Berdine Viljoen and Ashleigh Maling Nel.
Well done!
1st Graders give each other a nervous hug before going in – Karleigh, Marie Louise and Kaitlynne
Hip Hop Group From Humansdorp and Jeffreys Bay
Leane and Karla – 3rd Grade Modern
Megan had to go it alone for Prelim Junior
Jessica and Ilze also worked up a good sweat doing Preliminary
Happy 3rd Graders – Desmare, Meagan and Berdine
Leah and Madison all ready to dance