Centre Pointe Dance
and Drama Studio

Congratulations to Olivia Holding, Shannah Spry, Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik and Melissa Braithwaite on their huge achievement in Paris at the Dance World Cup 2011.

Childrens National	Shannah Spry	1st
Childrens Tap	Shannah Spry	1st
Junior Ballet	Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik	3rd
	Melissa Braithwaite	9th
Junior Modern	Melissa Braithwaite	9th
	Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik	11th
Open S&D	Olivia Holding	2nd
Open Tap	Olivia Holding	4th
Open Tap Duet	Olivia Holding & Shannah Spry	2nd
Open Tap Group	Olivia Holding, Shannah Spry, Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik, Melissa Braithwaite	4th
Junior Ballet Duet	Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik & Melissa Braithwaite	4th
Junior Modern Duet	Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik & Melissa Braithwaite	5th
Best Overall Tap	Shannah Spry

The England Team came Runner Up in the Country Award with Germany winning overall. However Germany had 300 dancers representing their county and England had approximately 60!

Congratulations on a wonderful achievement. All the dancers excelled in large sections and achieved highly against some of the worlds best dancers from Australia, Malaysia, Russia and many countries from right across Europe. The dancers represented England and Centre Pointe with pride and were so inspired by everyone's support and encouragement!

Once again an incredible achievement of all the girls to excel at the ISTD Modern Dance Janet Cram awards. Centre Pointe Students have represented Centre Pointe at the Janet Cram awards for the past four years, each year improving on their National Finals successes.

NORTHERN HEATS - Held at Queen Margaret's School, York, 29th May 2011
Junior	Zara Ward
Senior	Onix Melbourne-Skeech
	Darcy Quinn
	Shannah Spry	Senior Class Prize
Premier	Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik	Premier Class Prize
	Olivia Bradbury
NATIONAL FINALS - Held at The Shaw Theatre, London 19th June 2011
Junior	Zara Ward
Senior	Shannah Spry	The Senior Janet Cram Award
Premier	Georgina Ashworth Kwasnik	Premier Most Outstanding Dance
	Olivia Bradbury

Four students had a wonderful day at the Arts Depot, London competing in the annual ISTD Tap competition against some of the UK's best Tap Dancers. Huge congratulations to Olivia Holdin who came runner up in the Premier section and received a commendation for the choreography of her solo.

Senior
Georgina Ashworth - Kwasnik
Darcy Quinn
Premier
Annie Keating
Olivia Holding - Runner Up

Out of 75 young dancers, Georgina was one of only two dancers out of 32 semi finalists who were not from the Royal Ballet School to reach the semi-finals, which is a major achievement, she was also awarded a scholarship to the English National Ballet School, Summer School, which she will attend this summer. Huge Congratulations Georgina!

Centre Pointe Graduate, Tierney Heap, now in her second year at the Royal Ballet School, reached the finals and was awarded a Commendation.

Melissa Braithwaite was placed runner up at the North East of England IDTA Senior Ballet Championship at the Tadcaster Festival

Graduate Matthew Koon, currently training at English National Ballet School appeared once again on Sky 1's Got To Dance and performed as one of last years finalists. He then went on to appear at Move It, and was interviewed on Stage by the Royal Academy of Dance.

Mathew was also invited to perform in Taiwan as part of their Chinese New Year Celebrations and performed in front of 10,000 people at a large arena in Taipei. You can watch Matthew Performance here.

Emily Newman has recently finished filming the ISTD New Tap Syllabi DVD in London. She performs the new Grade 1 Tap Syllabus and enjoyed her two days of filming with other members of the ISTD.

Shannah Spry has recently qualified to dance at The World Irish Dance Championships Finals. These will take place in Dublin, Ireland over the Easter Break. We wish her the best of luck!

Shannah Spry, Georgina Ashworth-Kwasnik, Meliss Braithwaite and Olivia Holding have been selected to perform in Dance World Cup 2011 Competition which will take place at EuroDisney Paris in June. The girls are training hard and are looking forward to representing England at this international event.

Centre Pointe students once again claimed an array of places at the Theatre Dance Council Internationals English Championships, held at The Waterside in Sale.

Junior Ballet
Melissa Braithwaite – Winner
Onix Melbourne-Skeech – 4th
Darcy Quinn – 7th
Zara Ward, Emily Hulme, Nikia Attard, Shannah Spry – Semi-Finalists

Junior Modern
Darcey Quinn – 7th Place
Melissa Braithwaite, Onix Melbourne-Skeech – Semi-Finalists

Junior Song & Dance
Emily Hulme & Nikia Attard – Semi-Finalists

Senior Ballet
Olivia Holding – Runner Up
Georgina Ashworth-Kwasnik – 3rd
Ellie Cook – 6th
Laura Davies, Christina Mycock – Semi-Finalists

Senior Song & Dance
Georgina Ashworth-Kwasnik & Olivia Holding – Semi-Finalists

Senior Tap
Olivia Holding – Semi-Finalist

Senior Modern
Olivia Holding – Semi-Finalist

Angus Newman – Senior Overall Winner & Award for Innovation (pictured above left)
Shannah Spry, Eloise Smith, Natalie Higham, Rachel Hickey – Junior Overall Winner & Artistry Award

Centre Pointe students won an array of awards over the three day festival.
Olivia Holding won the Cynthia Carr Award (Senior) (pictured above right)
Shannah Spry won the Most Promising (12 & under) (pictured above left)