Blackpool Junior Results - April 2009 |
DWP Juvenile and Junior teams make British 'Open to the World' finals, and DWP Juvenile team again highest placed English Juvenile team.
The Dance with Passion Latin American formation teams had great success at the 52nd Blackpool Junior Dance Festival at Blackpool Tower on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th April 2009.
We are very proud to announce that the DWP Junior 4 couple 'Happy Feet' team and the DWP Juvenile 4 couple team both made the finals of the largest Latin and Ballroom formation Championships in the World. The DWP Juvenile team were once again the highest placed English Juvenile team in the Championships. This year the five DWP formation teams were amongst 89 teams competing over the weekend.
DWP Junior 4 Couple 'Happy Feet' Team 2009
The newly formed DWP Junior 4 couple 'Happy Feet' team came 5th out of 27 teams in their first competition. This is an incredible result given the very strong competition from the talented Latin formation teams from south Wales of Windsor, Ystrad Fawr, Dance Crazy and TNT.
DWP Juvenile 4 Couple Team 2009
The DWP Juvenile 4 couple team continued their phenomenal run of making the final of every competition they have entered, and this year they came 4th out of 24 teams, the best placing by an English Juvenile team.
DWP Juvenile 6 Couple 'Italia' Team 2009
Successfully making it through into the semi-finals stages, both the DWP Juvenile 6 couple team and the DWP Junior 8 couple team just missed making the finals by a very narrow margin. The Juvenile 6 couple 'Italia' team come 8th out of 17 teams. In their second year in the British Championships, the Junior 8 couple 'Cuba' team came 8th out of 21 teams, an improvement of 6 places on last year's Championship's results.
DWP Junior 8 Couple 'Cuba' Team 2009
The DWP Junior 4 couple 'The Beat' team, in their first competition, just missed getting into the semi-final by one point, coming a respectable 13th out of 27 teams.
DWP Junior 4 Couple 'The Beat' Team 2009
All four formation Championships were this year won by the Welsh teams of Windsor, Ystrad Fawr and Dance Crazy, meaning that Dance with Passion retain the honour of being the most recent English team to win a title at these prestigious Championships in 2007.
Well done to all the teams who took part over the weekend.
Jason and Shemayne would like to thank the parents and families of all the children for their support, which has enabled the teams to perform at such a high level, and for DWP to continue to have some of the best Latin American formation teams in the country.
Here are a summary of the 2009 results and more photographs.
The full official results of the 2009 British Junior Dance Festival competition can be found at
For more information see the Competition Calendar page.
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