Category: News

Absolutely incredible news from the weekend! 🌟🖤💙

We are beyond proud to announce that Abi Bridger is the Winner of the IDTA Miss Dance of Great Britain – Heat A ⭐️👏
And more amazing news… Evie Bradford has been crowned Winner of Heat B 👏✨

What a fantastic day for our Miss Dance girls! Both Abi and Evie have now qualified for the Grand Finals in June at the Winter Gardens, and we cannot wait to see them shine on that stage.

Abi and Evie will be joining Izzy Adshead, who qualified at the end of last year, making it an incredible line-up for the Miss Dance & Dance Master Grand Final 💫

Huge congratulations to all three girls — your hard work, dedication, and talent truly show. We can’t wait to cheer you on in June! 🎉💃🕺

#SoProud #MissDance #IDTA #FutureChampions #WinterGardens

The results from our May IDTA examination session are once again fantastic and we couldn’t be prouder of our students!

A special mention to our pupils who have received a high distinction mark of 90 and over.

Isabel Adshead (96) – Theatre Craft

Abi Bridger (95) – Theatre Craft

Evie Bradford (94) – Theatre Craft

Lauren Daly (92) – Theatre Craft

Heidi Webber (92) – Theatre Craft

Jessica Baggaley (92) – Contemporary Jazz

Alfie Oconnor (92) – Contemporary Jazz

Renee Elliott-Latif (91) – Contemporary Jazz

Izzy Brooks (91) – Tap

Alycia Mayfield (90) – Theatre Craft

Zayah-Rose Lewis (90) – Tap

Georgia Crosbee (90) – Tap

Lois Parwana (90) – Contemporary Jazz

And to top it off we received 5 IDTA Theatre Award Nominations for 2026!

Congratulations to Izzy Adshead, Abi Bridger, Evie Bradford, Lauren Daly and Heidi Webber. We can’t wait to see you at the awards finals next year.

We’re extremely proud teachers, congratulations to team BAD on this fantastic achievement!

Abi Bridger – Intermediate Theatre Craft

Isabel Adshead – Intermediate Theatre Craft

Evie Bradford – Intermediate Theatre Craft

Lauren Daly – Grade 5 Theatre Craft

Heidi Webber – Grade 5 Theatre Craft

Super proud of you all, keep up the great work!

IDTA Theatre Dance Awards

So unbelievably proud of our girls at the Miss Dance of Great Britain finals this week!

Miss Evie Bradford – Grand Finalist (top 6)

Miss Isabel Adshead – Semi finalist (top 12) and John Dilworth Bursary Award Winner!!!

Miss Abi Bridger – Finalist

What inspirational young ladies following their dreams. An incredible achievement for the school, congratulations to the teachers at BAD!

A day to remember and such lovely memories

IDTA Theatre Dance Awards

We had 40 pupils taking examinations and 40 pupils have received a distinction grade (85% and over) which is just amazing. A big well done to team BAD, a fantastic achievement!

Our 28 Juveniles also passed their Theatre Rosette exams with flying colours, well done to you all

21 pupils received 90 marks and over. Our top scoring pupils of this session are Nevaeh Brook and Lauren Daly, both achieving an incredible 96 marks!

Lauren Daly – (96) – Cont Jazz

Nevaeh Brook – (96) – Theatre Craft

Annabelle Seymour – (95) – Theatre Craft

Gracie Rogers – (95) – Theatre Craft

Heidi Webber – (94) – Cont Jazz

Abbie Braithwaite – (93) – Theatre Craft

Izzy Brooks – (93) – Theatre Craft

Luella Smith – (92) – Cont Jazz

Neve Francis – (92) – Cont Jazz

Ava Hunter – (91) – Theatre Craft

Rosa Kielty – (91) – Theatre Craft

Georgia Crosbee – (91) – Theatre Craft

Alfie Oconnor – (90) – Theatre Craft

Evelyn Emmott – (90) – Theatre Craft

Evie Oconnor – (90) – Cont Jazz

Hannah Braithwaite – (90) – Cont Jazz

Jessica Baggaley – (90) – Theatre Craft

Maisie Berry – (90) – Theatre Craft

Scarlett Burkitt – (90) – Theatre Craft

Sophie Baggaley – (90) – Theatre Craft

Summer Griffin – (90) – Theatre Craft

We’re very proud teachers, keep up the great work everyone

An incredible day for Abi Bridger at the Laithes TDCI Championships. Winning a place in the World Performer Grand Finals 2025!!

So proud of your achievement we can’t wait to cheer you on in Blackpool next year! Not only that, Abi achieved 3rd place in the Laithes Senior Modern and 3rd place in the Laithes Senior Acro Championships!

A big well done to Evie Bradford who danced beautifully in the section, very proud of our girls today

#tdciworldperformer#berryacademyofdance

What a fabulous few days at Dearne Springtime Dance Festival. Well done to our BAD competition team who have danced over the last two weekends, you have done yourself and the school proud!

An amazing 85 medals and 10 trophies won between them over the 4-days!

1st place – 19

2nd place – 26

3rd place – 21

4th place – 19

Well done to our Senior group winning gold and our Junior group winning silver.

A big well done to our trophy winners;

A Novice Cabaret – Izzy Brooks

A Novice Classical – Zayah Lewis

C Novice Cabaret – Jessica Baggaley

C Novice Classical – Darcey Darwent

D Novice Classical – Maisie Berry

F Cabaret – Abi Bridger

Senior Acro – Abi Bridger

Senior Trio – L. Xaba, I. Adshead, A. Bridger

Most Promising Performer – Abi Bridger

Senior Acts – Berry Academy of Dance

Happy memories

Thank you for all your hard work!

What an incredible weekend we had at the IDTA Theatre Awards 2024, our girls definitely did us proud!

Abi, Alycia, Evie, Izzy, Niamh were all AMAZING in their classes, we are very proud teachers

Abi and Izzy both reaching the finals in all three of their subjects is just fantastic, what an achievement to finish in the top selection in every class!

A special commendation was awarded to Abi Bridger in the Theatre Craft grades; finishing top 3 in the country!

#berryacademyofdance#TeamBad#idta

A big well done to everyone who has taken an IDTA examination today. We had pupils of all ages, from our pre-schoolers to seniors, you have all worked so hard preparing for your exams. We are very proud of you all

Our main classes have now officially stopped for the summer, we hope you all have a fantastic break. See you again from Saturday 2nd September!

#TeamBAD#berryacademyofdance#theidta#aspireandachieve

The exam results have arrived from our recent IDTA Examination session and I’m pleased to say we have maintained our 100% pass rate and every pupil has received a distinction in their exam, a big well done to everyone involved

I’m pleased to say the following pupils have been selected by the examiner to receive a Theatre Award Nomination and will attend the finals in Manchester in 2024;

Abi Bridger – Grade 4 Tap

Evie Bradford – Grade 4 Tap

Isabel Adshead – Grade 4 Tap

Niamh Thompson – Grade 4 Tap

Eva Cadet – Inter Contemporary Jazz

Well done to all pupils, you have worked so hard, we are very proud of you all

#berryacademyofdance#TeamBAD#theidta