If you want to be apart of one of the street dance teams, please email Carrie on enquiries@dancefusion.co.uk

Contagious are performing at Breakin Convention Manchester next week at The Lowry so get down there and show your support!

UDO are organizing a World Record Attempt for the number of people dancing at the same time. There will be hundreds of people watching and taking part and Contagious and Equinox have been asked to showcase at the event. So get yourself down to Blackpool this bank holiday and show some support!
 

Marlon “Swoosh” Wallen choreographer from Flawless came to teach a masterclass at CH Dance. He put the students through their paces and they thoroughly enjoyed it. Check out the Gallery page for the footage from the workshop. Good luck to Flawless on the live shows of Britains Got Talent.

CH Dance were asked to showcase at Disneyland Paris in April. They did a fantastic job (see Gallery) and we all had a great weekend together. People commented how professional both teams were and the performance was fantastic.

Carrie was asked to choreograph for The Lowry Theatre in Manchester for their new dance exhibition “Express Yourself”. It will be promoted Nationwide to promote dance is for everybody no matter what age, size, gender anyone can get involved.
Contagious and Equinox were both involved with the Launch of the event performing to “Express Yourself” by Madonna and they also displayed their hip hop teams at the event.
Keep a look out for the promotion video and pictures in the news!

Students took part in the UDO North West competition in April and came away with a handful of trophies! Well done to everyone who took part in their solos and duos. Both teams from CH Dance came 1st in the advanced section.

Contagious and Equinox entered the UK Street Dance Championships and got thru to the finals in London. They beat off the great competition they were against and Contagious came away with 2nd place! The finals were extremely hard being up against the best in the country and both teams did fantastic.

Marcquelle Ward, actor from Brittania High and winner of Dance X put the students through their paces when he taught a one off workshop to students at CH Dance.

Well Done to Equinox and Contagious who have won their chance to perform at Disneyland Paris in 2009. They fought off stiff competition but they rightly earned it! They will take to the Disney Stage later this year. Well done eveyone!

CH Dance were asked to perform and part choreograph part of the Christmas Panto Cinderella. It was a great experience for all the students and we had a great time

Contagious and Equinox were invited to perform at Gracie Fields Theatre in Rochdale in association with Spiral Dance to help raise money and support local children to express themselves and perform through the art of dance. Well done everyone, you made me proud.

Well Done to Equinox and Contagious who performed at The Urban Variety Show in Blackpool. You looked very professional. See the video clip section.

NEW Break dancing class starting next week! For more information please contact Carrie.

CH Dance was working alongside UDO to promote the World Street Dance Championships. Both teams from CH Dance performed at Channel M and also selected students were interviewed on ITV Granada Reports. Well done girls and guys!

This years Dancefusion summer workshop was a huge success! With 50 students taking part enjoying the latest in Hip Hop, Break dance and Drama. The workshop finished off with a showcase on the last day and we had some fantastic and creative performances by the children.

Contagious and Equinox were invited to perform at Midfest. It was a festival where local dance groups came along to compete, but the organizers heard how good the 2 teams are and we were asked to showcase and perform at the event.

Another fantastic choreographer, Marlon “Swoosh” Wallen delivered a special masterclass this weekend. He has too many credits to mention! He is the founder and choreographer of “Flawless” from London and is constantly touring – it was hard to pin him down! Everyone is the class had fun and Marlon welcomed everyone and created a friendly atmosphere in class.

Ukweli from Birdgang in London came to teach a one off masgterclass to the students at CH Dance. He has worked with many artists including Kylie and Mariah and is currently training at RADA in London.

Equinox and Contagious were both asked to perform at Blackleys Performing Arts Festival  alongside the cast of High School Musical from the Abraham Moss Drama Group. It was great to see how people responded to the teams, everyone said they were fabulous.

Choreographer Gian Carlo from Italy taught a very special workshop for some of the students for CH Dance.

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Both hip hop teams from CH Dance Contagious and Equinox  were both asked to showcase at the National Youth Dance Festival in Warrington.

UDO British Championships was a great success! 2 of our teams entered Equinox and Contagious who came 1st!! Well done guys, I’m so proud of you. It was a great weekend judged by Sisco and Flawless who are all so talented and showcased at the event.
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We was invited back to Channel M to perform at the studio Equinox’s most recent team routine that we are performing at the British Championships this weekend. The students were interviewed about the championships and where they train.
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CH Dance was asked to perform on Manchester’s TV station for Christmas week. Carrie was asked to choreograph a Christmas theme piece and invited her dancers to perform the routine live on TV. The channel’s staff was so pleased how everyone was so professional and polite they invited us back to for more performances in the future. Thanks to all my wonderful students who are so friendly and very professional, you’re my little stars J
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Another charity event Equinox helped raise money for by providing entertainment at the event was at a Fashion Show. A gorgeous collection of designer clothing “The Closet Boutique” held a fashion show and asked Equinox to provide entertainment.
                                               

Equinox performed at a Breast Cancer Charity Awareness night. They were the entertainment for the evening and everyone enjoyed the performance. Thanks for everyone involved and for raising money for this worthy cause.
                                               

Equinox was invited to perform at the Variety Clubs Charity Event at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. They performed along side some of Manchester finest performers including Eton Road from X Factor. Everyone loved the team with some wonderful comments and letters by the organizers and spectators.
                                               

Contagious performed in Middleton Centre to help promote this years Pantomine at the Civic centre. They caused quite a crowd and therefore had to perform twice! Well done guys!   

Tomas Simon from Birdgang and Dance 2XS UK and Prague gave a memorable workshop of NU Style and Krumping. He has performed in many shows, TV adverts and danced for Mariah Carey at Disneyland Paris.
                                               

CH Dance attended the UDO World Street Dance Championships at the renowned Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Everyone did really well and came home with lots of trophies J Well Done Everyone!
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It was another successful workshop for Dancefusion. Students learnt Hip Hop, Disco, Choreography Skills, Cheer leading & Drama.
Next years workshop will be held Monday 28th – Thursday 31st July 08.
For more information please email enquiries@dancefusion.co.uk
                                       

Equinox attended the GForce Championships in London. It was a great experience taking part on a huge London stage with a couple of thousand spectators. It was a great atmosphere and we are all looking forward to doing it again next year.
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Carrie was asked to perform on a new TV series for E4 which will be aired early next year. It will also be aired on Channel 4's T4 slot. More news soon as we hear it.........!!

The teams put on another great display when they were asked to perform at a special Christmas show of Dance Crazy.

The adult team enjoyed their Christmas get together. They went ice skating at Manchester Piccadilly, which was so much fun! Then went on to Nando's in the Printworks for some food!

This years children's Christmas party was great! They went to Manchesters Trafford Centre for luch at Frankie & Bennys and then on to Lazer Quest. All the students loved it, including Carrie & Rosanna who just kept shooting each other!

All the students were well behaved as usual, it was a delight to have them for the afternoon.

Choreographer Jerry Tse gave the students an intense workout with his unique slick style. I'm sure he'll be back soon to do another workshop.

Another great day at the competition in Stoke. Again coming away with loads of 1st place trophies! Well donr everyone - Keep up the good work

Aria Jacobs took part in the Urban Youth Project at Zion Arts Centre. They have been rehearsing for 3 months and looking forward to seeing the end result this weekend. Choreographers on the project Charles Denton and Jerry Tse

Big thanks to MVD Glenn Ball for coming up at the weekend and putting the team through a masterclass. He taught them a street routine & had them in stitches with his little stories! Glenn is currectly dancing for Emma Bunton, Lionel Ritchie & Take That!!

It was another enjoyable day when students from the Carrie Hanson School of Dance helped swith on Middletons Christmas Lights. With Tower FM providing music and entertainment all day long.

Well done again to ALL students who attended the Southern Street Dance Championships. We cleared the floor coming first in nerly every section we entered! Both teams Fatal & Kurupt came 1st, Sophie Hopkins Adult Intermediate Solo, Nicole Bolton U14 Intermediate Solo, Tyler Boton U10 Intermediate Solo all coming 1st place with Rosanna Lloyd Adult Intermediate 3rd, Aria Jacobs Adult Intermediate 4th, Sophie & Chantelle Adult Adavned Duo 2nd, Nicole & Tyler Bolton U14 Intermediate Duo 4th and not forgetting Chuck who came 1st in the Adult Advanced Solo section. He entertained the crowd and had everyonr on their feet! It was an excellent day!

Nicole Bolton has been chosen to be one of the dancers in this years pantomine at Oldham Coliseum. She beat off stiff competition to earn her place and will be performing along side actors from hit TV dramas such as Casualty. So good luck Nicole!

After dancing on the BBC's Big Dance Event in July, it went so well Channel M aired a piece of the team on one of their programmes about dance life in Manchester!

We attended the World Street Dance Championships this weekend and it was amazing! The standard of dancers were fantastic. We came home with loads of trophies from solo's and doubles coming 1 st and 2 nd place out of up to 50 dancers in their section. The group team came 4 th which I am proud of as there was huge competition against them. Well done to everyone and roll on the next competition!

Little Spencer is in yet another commercial. This time he is strutting his stuff as a model for the new Littlewoods advert.

Teachers Carrie & PM taught at the nationwide “No Messing” Event today which is being run by National Rail. Amir Khan (Boxer) was the face of the event and is sending the message to children to not play on the railway, take up a sport like dancing, boxing, football, basketball etc. Amir attended the event and took part in Carrie's dance class! Which he was very good! He got stuck in and learnt the routine with all the children and was really enthusiastic.

One of our teachers has got to the final of the TV series of Bump N Grind. Well done to Paul Clarke who will be moving to London to live in a house with all the other finalists from the show, where they will be put through a grueling audition process. They will have to battle it out every day to stay in the competition. It will be aired on Trouble TV in October

Good Luck to the Street dance teams who are attending the World Street Dance Championships in August. Following the triumph in London earlier this year they are in training to hopefully return home with many more trophies! Good Luck All!

All the teams were asked to perform at the BBC 1's Big Dance Class World Record Event that was hosted by Bruce Forsyth and Zoe Ball. Not just to take part in the Guinness World Record but also to perform all the teams on the main stage.

It was a great day and the crowd went wild when they started performing!

Teachers from the Carrie Hanson School of Dance were asked to teach for Robinsons Fruit Shoot at the Great Yorkshire Show Ground in Harrogate . Prince Charles and Camilla were at the venue on the 3 rd day checking out what the event had to offer.

This year's Dance Fusion Summer Workshop is nearly upon us! It will be held at the Middleton Civic Centre on the 7 th – 10 th August. If you would like to book a place please email or phone Carrie direct on 07710-745-702 for an application form.

The street dance teams attended the London Street Dance Championships to defend their crown and again beat off all competition and came 1st!

Not only did the team come 1st also alot of the soloists and double acts came 1st, including Sophie & Chantelle who haven't lost a competition yet!! They keep taking the 1st place spot at every competition we attend!!

The team are now training for the World Street Dance Championships later this year, where we be representing England.

Students at the Carrie Hanson School of Dance was asked to perform in Rochdale Town centre in association with Rochdale Council and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. Both award winning teams performed their routines to the crowd in Rochdale.

Well done to little Spencer again who is the face of Nesquick Magic Straws! Watch out for the advert hitting your screens soon!

Congratulations to the adult street team who came 1st out of 7 teams at the Street Dance Championships in Stoke on Trent. With a number of soloist's coming 1st including Tyler and it was his 1st time competing!

The team will be defending their crown in London next month!

Well done to all the students who took part in the Maoam audition this year and well done for making the final in July. The judges said how fantastic you all are and you were the best they have seen in all the regional auditions! What great a compliment! Good luck for the final.

Carrie appeared in the new MTV's programme "4 to the floor". A Hip Hop programme that was based around the Nike Dancers Promotion about dance now being recognised as a sport.

With the new dance promotion from Nike being a huge success through out the UK , dancers from the Carrie Hanson School of Dance were asked to promote the event at Manchester Trafford Centre.

Selected dancers put on a fabulous display of skill when they attracted a huge crowd of people.

Teachers Carrie, Tina & Nadia went to the Nike Rockstar Workout Live in London to perform Salsa & Hip Hop. It was an amazing weekend to be apart of, and it was topped off by meeting one of the stars of the Nike Advert – Kymberlee Jay.

Students were treated to a body popping workshop from “Chaz & crew”.

After completing the 3 hour workshop the students were shown a fabulous display of their talent including lifts, flips ands head spins. They will be regular teachers to the school, teaching the workshops every month.

See teachers page for biog.

**NEW** Cheerleading class starting Monday 3 rd April. Your chance to be apart of a team where you will attend competitions which will include lifts and dance moves inspired from the Hit Film “Bring It On”. For more information please phone Carrie on 07710 745 702

Watch out for the new BBC1 drama series “ Waterloo Road ” starring Angela Griffin from Coronation Street among other well known stars featured our very own Nicole Devlin. She starred in the programme that was filmed late last year and is due to be aired within the next couple of weeks. So keep an eye out for her!!

Well done to all dancers that took part in the disco competition at the weekend. Both the adult team and the little team was awarded with the 1 st place prize!! Along with numerous solos and doubles coming 1 st . Keep up the good work!!

Well done to everyone who attended the Street Dance Championships at Bolton Stadium. What a fabulous display of skill. The standard was very high so I have extreme delight in saying well done to Sophie & Chantelle who took the 1 st place spot in their Double Act out of 24 pairs of dancers. Roll on the next one when we take them by storm with team “Kurupt"

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Presentation was another huge success. Thank you to all who came and supported the dancers. What a great show from everyone including the teams! Wow I think you took everyone's breath away! Can't wait till the next one!

Well done to Spencer for being in the new Christmas Morrisons advert!

USA vs UK Street Dance Championships held at Wembley in London ! All I can say is WOW! Firstly we took part in two back 2 back workshops with one of the USA 's top choreographers and the main guy from “Boy Blue” company representing the UK . It was a battle between 2 nations to see who had the best routines and the best dancers. The first workshop by the US choreographer was mainstream Hip Hop to one of Missey Elliott's fine tracks, and the second taken by the UK choreographer was a mix between street, popping & locking that flowed smoothly from one to the other. Then onto the main event! A show of some of the finest dancers ever seen. UK dancers who have danced in the Nike Ads, Fat Man Scoop & Jamelia and the USA dancers who have performed with Mario, Missey Elliott & B2K! The crème of the crop. The crews had to battle it out and in the end there can only be one winner – the UK ! The Americans were very close but the English just beat them! After the show we got to meet all the dancers & my students was so star struck after receiving hugs & kisses from them all! An absolutely amazing day! Can't wait for next year!

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P Clarke returned to do another amazing street class. Straight from another video shoot with LMC. Single due out early January 06.

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What a great day out everyone had on the Xmas Do! The children went to Pizza Hut for a fun filled party including design your own pizza, pizza bingo and everyone receiving a goodie bag! Then we went to the cinema to watch “Narnia”. Everyone really enjoyed the day and was all well behaved and everyone got along. Real Christmas spirit! It was a pleasure to spend the day with you all!

Meanwhile the adults went on their own Xmas Do, a night out bowling! We had two teams and every time someone got a strike you had to do a break dance move on the alley! Then to finish a great night we had a Xmas meal!

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Students was lucky enough to have been involved in a break dance master class with one of the only female break dancers in the North West. Nadia Aljanabi, will be taking a class every other month so the students can learn new, fresh break moves from one of the best!

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Congratulations to everyone who took their exam. The examiner commented on how the dance school has developed and the standard was very high. Roll on the presentation! A great night out with a DJ & fully licensed bar and not forgetting all the fun!

Well done to all those who helped to turn on the Christmas lights in Middleton. It was a brilliant day for all involved. Even though some students were quite nervous, everyone danced excellently. I had loads of comments about how brilliant all the dancers were. Well done, you made me proud!

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A selected number of students was lucky enough to dance on ITV 1's “Stars in their Eyes”. They performed on stage in the famous studio and got to see behind the scenes of how the show works and met the shows producers and staff and not forgetting the famous Cat Deeley! Who was lovely and very down to earth. We were lucky to meet some of the shows Hip Hop dancers who have agreed to do a workshop for the school in the New Year.

A number of students had a great night out at Granada TV when they went to see the daytime chat show “the Jeremy Kyle show “. The topics were interesting but Jeremy got straight to the point wasting no time telling the guests what he thought, all though I don't think he was too impressed when Joe shouted out “I thought this was the Jerry Springer show".

I would like to thank al the people who went to Paris to perform for this years Halloween celebrations on the one and only world famous Disney stage. After performing in this once in a life time opportunity we have the rest of the time to explore the two Disney parks including the new MGM studios. We were also invited to a private Disney Halloween party where you had to have a special invitation to attend. If you would like to see more check our gallery.

Our very own mischievous little boy, Spencer Wild has just finished filming his debut film ' Mischief Nights '. From appearing in the 'Green Giant Sweet corn' Advertisement still being screened throughout the country, to being in his very own film. He has just secured another role in BBC1's "The Magnificent Seven”, which he will start filming very soon.

Nicole Devlin was one of the lucky chosen ones who was selected to appear in a new ITV1 drama series due on our screens early next year.

This years Dancefusion Workshops went extremely well. All students learned Street Dance , Hiphop, Choreography skillls, Improvisation, Mime , Street Theatre and Script work. It was a fantastic week for all involved with all students gaining a "Dancefusion" certificate.

We will be doing the same next year so if you are interested in attending please email or phone Carrie. Alternatively look in the local press and check out the website for further details.
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Street Dancer "Clarke" who is part of the "Nu Era" breakdance crew from London, put the students through a tough 2 hour workshop. Clarke has had much success in his feild he has trained in Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Contempary but specialises in Street Dance.
Some of his credits are:
Got into the final of Bump n Grind
Taught a short routine on Nickeoldian Control Freaks
Performed for JD Sports Dance campaign
Represented Manchester at the Princes Trust UMF at Street Dance Champoinships in london
Performed on TOTP and CD:UK

Dancers attended the annual Street Dance Championships in London at the Hammersmith Carling Apollo. The standard was excellent and we are looking forward to taking part next year!

Well done to Amy and Nicole who was chosen from hundreds of hopefulls to be in the latest Roch Valley Dancewear brochure! Carrie was also asked to the photoshoot to guide the dancers through the experience with Rosanna doing hair and make up.

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Congratulations to Nicole and Hannah who won a place in the production of Guys and Dolls at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. They will take to the stage this summer!

Thank you and well done everyone who attend the presentation evening. The night was a massive success, with everyone receiving their medals and certificates. The DJ topped the night off by performing to all the dancers, family and friends his 70's set with afro, costume and platforms!

It was a brilliant night for all involved, with all parents and friends commenting how well everyone has done and how much they have all improved.

Well done to the adult team for getting through to the England team!. The team beat hundreds of hopefulls to get through to the final squad. They are rehearsing every other week with people from all over the country. They will perform at Disney Land Paris this year as part of the Halloween celebrations.

The judges were impressed by Carrie's imaginative, original and exciting choreography they wanted her on the team. On the day of auditions the judges was also looking for people to travel to America for a show at Disney Land California, and Rosanna was one of the lucky chosen ones! She will dance on the big stage in Hollywood in front of thousands of people, producers, directors and agents. So good luck in America Rosanna and good luck in Paris the team.

This years Dance Fusion workshop will be held at the Middleton Civic Centre in August. The workshop will feature the very latest in HipHop, Street Dance and Disco. This year we will be joined by one of the best drama lectures in the area, Paul Jones (current lecturer Hopwood Hall College). He will be conducting the basics in Perfoming Arts giving the dance students an insight into an area of perfomance aside from dance.

If you would like to take part in the workshop or would like further information please fill in the contact form or phone Carrie on 07710 745 702

Maoam Auditions took place in Zanizabar located in Dearbyshire. All students that took part qualified for the final in London to be held in July. In the final heat of this Audition the judges decided to award first place to Sophie and with that a fantastic new ipod shuffle, Rosanna and Chantelle was awarded joint second, winning a goodie bag of cds and Maoam sweets. Gratz to all those who reached the final and good luck in London.

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Well done to everyone who entered and past their exam with flying colours, you all danced fantastically well!!!!!. Presentation, date TBC.

Congratulations to spencer who is in the new "Green Giant Sweetcorn" commercial.