The Dance Hub - Lancaster

🖤🤍❤️ Morecambe Summer School 2026 ❤️🤍🖤

Two incredible performances at The Winter Gardens yesterday, bringing five amazing days of hard work, dancing and fun at Morecambe Summer School to a close! ✨

19 of our talented students worked alongside industry professionals to create yet another outstanding show, and we couldn’t be prouder of them all. ❤️

One of the most special things about this week is seeing our students not only dance alongside their Dance Hub friends, but make memories and friendships with dancers from so many other local schools too. No competition just hard work, encouragement and lots of fun! 🫶🏼

Thank you to all of the teachers, assistants and chaperones for making it all possible!

A very special mention to our four award winners:

🏆 Lucy P — Full Scholarship
🏆 Thea — Full Scholarship
🏆 Max — Cathy Lloyd Memorial Shield
🏆 Luca — Lily & Joe Harrison Memorial Cup

How special to have your hard work recognised after such a full and fulfilling week. You should all be incredibly proud! 🌟

And finally… a little full-circle moment as we celebrate 4 years of The Dance Hub Lancaster 🥹🫶🏼

🌟 ISTD EXAM CONGRATULATIONS! 🌟

A huge congratulations to all of our students who took their ISTD Modern, Tap and Ballet exams at the end of term! What a way to round off the year with two days of Modern & Tap exams and two days of Ballet exams, marking the culmination of months of hard work, dedication and commitment, alongside everything else you have achieved this year 🫶🏼

Exams are about so much more than the marks on a results sheet. They give our students a goal to work towards, teach them how to stay committed when something feels challenging, build confidence and resilience, and provide a wonderful sense of achievement when they finally reach that goal. These are skills that extend far beyond the dance studio and are an incredible learning curve for real life 🙌🏼

We are incredibly proud of every single one of you for stepping into that exam room and giving it your all 👏🏼

A huge thank you to our amazing teachers for all of their hard work, preparation, encouragement and dedication in getting the students exam-ready. It really is a team effort 💛

🌟 Congratulations to the following students who achieved 90 marks and over: 🌟

90 Eliza Grade 1 Tap
90 Libby Grade 2 Tap
91 Penny Grade 1 Tap
91 Anabelle Grade 2 Tap
92 Molly B Grade 2 Tap
92 Catherine Grade 4 Modern
94 Bonnie Grade 1 Tap
94 Bella B Grade 4 Modern
95 Matilda H Grade 1 Tap

What an incredible achievement, you should all be so proud of yourselves!

Well done, Dance Hub! We couldn’t be prouder! 💛

🏆✨ THAT’S A WRAP ON OUR 2025/26 COMPETITION YEAR! ✨🏆

We finished our competition year with two festivals right at the end of term, rounding off an incredibly successful year! 💛

First up was Tower Festival, falling on the same weekend as our Summer Presentations. That didn’t stop our dedicated dancers (and amazing parents!), with some attending more than half of the festival days alongside our presentation weekend!

🌟 TOWER FESTIVAL RESULTS 🌟
🏆 Twinkle Toes Senior Award — Catherine Shepherd
🏆 Top 10 Open — Catherine Shepherd
🏆 Top 10 Novice — Lucy Plawecki
🏆 Organisers’ Choice — Lucy Plawecki
🏆 Festival Spirit — Max Shield
🏆 Highest Scoring Trio — Mylah, Leyna & Thea Kilifin
🏆 Overall Trio — Mylah, Leyna & Thea Kilifin
🏆 Highest Score E — Lois Bleasdale

A huge thank you to the Tower Festival team. We LOVE the new venue and can’t wait to see you again soon! 💛

And then… no rest for the wicked! 😂

At the start of the summer holidays, a smaller group headed to Bay Festival at Mazuma Stadium. We had a brilliant time dancing together, catching up with friends from local schools and picking up fantastic results!

🌟 BAY FESTIVAL RESULTS 🌟

🎟️ GOLDEN TICKETS 🎟️
⭐ Max — Acro
⭐ Max & Isabella W — Cabaret Duet
🏆 B Aggregate — Max
🏆 Most Likely to Dance on the West End — Max

And a particularly special moment…

🏆 FIRST TROPHY FOR AMELIA, HONOR & ISLA! 🏆

A huge WELL DONE to every dancer who competed with us this year. Whether you’ve been part of the team all season or stepped onto the competition stage for the first time, you should be incredibly proud! ❤️
Competition isn’t the whole of what we do at The Dance Hub, but it gives our dancers so many amazing skills — confidence, resilience, independence, discipline, performing under pressure and, most importantly… HAVING FUN! 💃🏼

Seeing you enjoy yourselves on and off the stage, supporting your teammates and cheering on friends, is something we are incredibly proud of.

And to our amazing parents — thank you for everything behind the scenes 🫶🏼

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL! 🏆✨

What a way to finish an incredible competition year. 💛

✨ The Dance Hub Competition Team 2025/26 ✨

Introducing your new Head and Deputy Head students for 2026/27….

Head Girl - Beth French
Deputy Head - Taylor Pye

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Our final trophy winners…

Festival Trophy - Mila Camm
Exam Trophy - Bonnie Heywood
Dancers Dancer - Catherine Shepherd
Outstanding Talent - Isabella Buccelli
The Hub Heart Award of the year - Anna Bateman

Incredibly proud of all our winners 🏆 👏🏻 💛🫶🏼

TDHL Presentation Winners Part 2 🏆

Junior Rising Star - Phoebe Coll
Inter Rising Star - Anabelle Kolev
Senior Rising Star - Imogen Taylor
Junior Newcomer - Elise Jones
Inter Newcomer - Ada Quick
Senior Newcomer - Lucy Plawecki
Junior Joy of Dance - Eadie Armer
Inter Joy of Dance - Molly Bindless
Senior Joy of Dance - India Lumb
Adult Dancer Runner up - Lauren Leslie
Adult Dancer - Valerie Stead
Junior Outstanding effort - Matilda Carter
Inter Outstanding effort - Foteini Adamopoulou
Senior Outstanding effort - Mylah Kilifin
Most Improved Junior - Maddie Ord
Most Improved Inter - Isla Thorley
Most Improved Senior - Macey Pinington

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Our wonderful Sash winners 👏🏻 💛

Endeavour Sash:
Annabelle Obi
Georgina Bedston
Arwen Tarbuck
Iyra Hargreaves
Zaina Elhabbash
Ysabela David

Kindness Sash:
Arabella Parker
Bonnie Heywood
Iris Wearing
Lois Bleasdale
Heloise Foucart

Saturday Stars Sash:
Abi Phelps
Jackson Howe
Annie Discua-Pyne
Esmae Jackson
Thea Hosking
Clemmie Kirkham

TDHL Presentations 2026 💛

The most incredible afternoon yesterday spent with our Dance Hub family 🫶🏼

Part 1 of trophy winners:

Preschool Potential - Cora Elliott-Cunningham
Preschool Achievement - Sylvie Carter
Junior Ballet - Celestine Bumanglag
Inter Ballet - Cielle Shoemaker
Senior Ballet - Mia Buccelli
Junior Tap - Astrid Villan
Inter Tap - Isla Hotchkiss
Senior Tap - Olivia Stewart
Junior Modern - Aislin Chow
Inter Modern - Charlotte Huddleston
Senior Modern - Megan Selby
Junior Acro - Esme Stewart
Inter Acro - Erica Boydon
Senior Acro - Esra Erulkeroglu
Junior Musical Theatre - Rose Dawson
Senior Musical Theatre - Martha Milner
Junior Commercial - Penelope Elliott-Cunningham
Senior Commercial - Lucy Plawecki
Stage Presence - Isabella Williams
Stage Presence - Gabriella Alushi

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