KDF 2021 Dancer awards !

Our 2021 award winners are as follows.

If we could give an award to all the dancers we would 🙂 it was such a hard decision and we had so many different dancers in the mix that were nominated

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- best attendance -Hazel
- best parent participation - Kate short
- best pet double act -Emily J and her sausage dog Kai

DANCE STYLE AWARDS
- Ballet - Paisley W
- Modern - Emily P
- Tap - Nyimah
- MT - Ellie Y
- Lyrical - Macy
-street - Rebecca
-contemporary - Sophia c

GRADUATES CHOICE AWARDS
-jnr - Isla M
-snr - Livvy

KDF PERSONALITY
- Jnr - Emilia c
- snr - Esther

DRUM ROLL PLEASE
OVERALL DANCER OF THE YEAR
-jnr - Ava E
-snr - Kate H

*please feel free to send me any pics with your award

Well done all X ...

What a day - thank you everyone

It was such a great day

Well done all have a lovely summer

We will be in touch re sept soon x

Massive thank you to our helpers and teachers x ...

So every year at the end of the term, before the summer holidays we celebrate the beautiful young ladies that will be graduating from us at KDF

Due to covid I’m going to have to celebrate my gorgous graduating dancers a little bit differently this year

We have 4 graduating girls this year ❤️💜❤️💜Abbie Simpson Abbey Francis Lucy KirkLorna MacRae

As the girls head in to the last 4 weeks of training with us I’m going to share a little bit about our 4 big girls each week

We have had lorna and Abbie s already

This week is the turn of our Abbey Francis

Abbey joined KDF in her late teens because her mum Esther Francis danced with us already in our adult classes. I think this is amazing and truely shows what KDF is all about ….family and togetherness. I know both Esther and Abbey find the fact they can share a stage and dance together something extremely special

When abbey joined us she had to swap to a new dance syllabus jumping from American training to ISTD which was quite a challenge to say the least. She came into the school and hasn’t looked back since and now trains with us well over 10 hours a week in many of our dance styles.

Abbey has competed both within our senior team and as a soloist with numerous awards over the years, she has been in our big KDF shows and has recently taken her vocational intermediate level Istd exam in ballet and will be taking modern next week. Abbey may well be known to some of the little ones as miss abbey as she assists with some our current lessons also.

Abbey next year goes on to continue her dance training Going to Chichester college to do the ISTD DDE in ballet, modern and tap to become a professional ISTD dance teacher

Abs it’s been a blooming pleasure you have worked so extremely hard in the time we have had you and you have achieved so much. Your a delight to have in the school and I know lots of the girls really appreciate your friendship and kindnesss. Enjoy every moment in your continued dance training and always remember where we are x ...

So every year at the end of the term, before the summer holidays we celebrate the beautiful young ladies that will be graduating from us at KDF

Due to covid I’m going to have to celebrate my gorgous graduating dancers a little bit differently this year

We have 4 graduating girls this year ❤️💜❤️💜❤️Abbie Simpson Abbey Francis Lucy Kirk Lorna MacRae

As the girls head in to the last 4 weeks of training with us I’m going to share a little bit about our 4 big girls each week

Last week was Lorna

This week is the turn of our lovely ABBIE S

Abbie is one of three of the Simpson siblings that attend KDF - she joined a bit later in her dance career but has really developed within her dancing and is a huge part of our KDF senior group of girls.

Abbie has taken classes in many of our dance styles, danced with us on huge stages and also competed with our team…… but I think what stands out most for me with Abbie is her time with us as an assistant teacher! She quite literally was my right hand woman for a long time and helped me so much with all my classes (so a huge thank you from me personally for that !) The kids really looked up to her and loved having ‘Miss Abbie’ in class 💜

The last few months have not been the easiest for our Abbie with a few health issues Meaning she couldn’t do all she wanted - but In true Abbie style she was determined to carry on and all with a smile on her face, a true testament to her character

Plans for September for Abbie is to study for a Marine biology and coastal ecology Bachelors Degree at Plymouth University - she has recently moved in to her new flat in Plymouth - how exciting

She also has started a career in modelling in the last year or so and we wish her all the best with that too (see a little pic below)

Lovely girl thank you for all the amazing memory’s, for being a beautiful role model and for working so hard over the years x don’t be a stranger and all the best for the future. @abbiesimpson._ ...

So every year at the end of the term, before the summer holidays we celebrate the beautiful young ladies that will be graduating from us at KDF

Due to covid I’m going to have to celebrate my gorgous graduating dancers a little bit differently this year

We have 4 graduating girls this year ❤️💜❤️💜❤️ Abbie Simpson Abbey Francis Lucy Kirk and Lorna MacRae

As the girls head in to the last 4 weeks of training with us I’m going to share a little bit about our 4 big girls each week

This week is the turn of our lovely LORNA

Lorna joined us in 2017 and what an absolute delight she was to have from day 1 ! She is such a positive soul that works so hard………. And genuinely has a heart of gold

Lorna has performed in our KDF summer show, competed with our team, visited Disney with us and won one of end of show awards before too !

Next year Lorna hopes to study Earth & Planetary Science at Imperial College London

I can’t believe your time at KDF is coming to end….. I wish you a lifetime of happiness and all the best for the future thank you for being a pleasure to have in class 💜 @lorna_macrae ...

What an amazing day we had yesterday 🙂 we hope you all enjoyed it x ...