Strictly School Dancing's Halloween Festival to take place on Friday (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Strictly School Dancing's Halloween Festival to take place on Friday

12:29pm Tuesday 25th October 2011 in General

STRICTLY School Dancing Amateur Club (SSDAC) will hold a Halloween Dance Festival charity event this month.

The show at Everest Community Academy on Friday, October 28 at 7pm, will feature all of the Basingstoke club’s members performing 21 numbers covering a range of choreographed ballroom and Latin American dances, including a special finale.

The club’s coach, two time Czech National Champion Sarka Brock and her partner Pavel Dvorak – multiple Czech National Ballroom Champion – will also give a special performance.

Part of the show’s proceeds will be donated to Help for Heroes and the rest will be used within the club for the benefit of its child members’ ongoing training and development in dance.

SSDAC is a non-profit making club for juvenile and junior ballroom and Latin American dancers aged from six to 13 years-old in Basingstoke and the surrounding area. Club members train up to six hours per week and compete on weekends in dance competitions both locally and nationally.

Its members recently closed the first half of the Lord Mayor’s Variety Show in The Anvil and they are currently planning events in Festival Place and in residential homes in the area.

The club’s secretary Andrea Gibson said: “We are delighted to be supporting Help for Heroes. The fathers of two of our national team members are pilots based at RAF Odiham, so we will have military representatives at the event.

“We thought it would be both a fun and novel idea if the audience members dressed up in their choice of Halloween costume too! Though this is, of course, optional. A prize for the best dressed individual will be awarded during the show.”

Tickets are available from Cheryl Bond on 07743 692449 or Vicki Hart on 07734 108980.

Further information is online at strictlyschooldancing.co.uk.