Welcome to Weymouth Dance Festival 2021
23-27 October
23-27 October
Results 2021
Find the results form this year's festival on the results page!
COVID arrangements
To try and minimise the risk of possible infection during the Festival, please note these headline restrictions and requested practices:
If you would like to read our full risk assessment, you can find it on our website
- There will be one-way routes into and out of the auditorium. This will allow one parent to exit through the side door to get to the corridor and changing rooms and other audience members to leave through the outside exit.
- There will be no waiting in the foyer for upcoming classes. Instead we recommend you stay outside and away from others, entering once the auditorium doors are open.
- If you need to enter or leave the auditorium, please do so at the start or end of each class to minimise disruption. The two exit doors will not be routinely opened during a class.
- We recommend you wear a face masks in the auditorium, while queuing for tickets or at the coffee bar, in busy areas and walking through the building.
- We will provide hand sanitiser in all rooms.
- We recommend you spend minimal time in the changing rooms.
If you would like to read our full risk assessment, you can find it on our website
Volunteers
Thank you to everyone who's already volunteered for a session (or more!) during the Festival. We're really looking forward to seeing old and new faces. We so appreciate everyone's help - without our amazing volunteers the Festival just wouldn't happen!
But we need more people to get involved, please. To volunteer, simply fill out this form (please don't be put off by the form - it's just the easiest way for us to gather each volunteer's information).
Read more about the volunteer roles.
We’ll be putting together a list of roles the week before the show and confirming arrangements with you.
But we need more people to get involved, please. To volunteer, simply fill out this form (please don't be put off by the form - it's just the easiest way for us to gather each volunteer's information).
Read more about the volunteer roles.
We’ll be putting together a list of roles the week before the show and confirming arrangements with you.
Coffee bar
We're delighted to have a coffee bar open this year...
- We'll be open from 8:30am until the end of the afternoon tea break each day (apart from Wednesday, when we'll close after the morning coffee break).
- We'll be selling teas/coffees, pre-packed snacks, crisps, soft drinks, but no sandwiches or cakes.
- We don't have the facility to take card payments, so the coffee bar will be cash-only.
Music
Thank you for submitting your music tracks as MP3s.
These are what we'll be using to play the music on the day, but just in case there's a technical hitch, please remember to bring a back-up CD for each of your child's dances.
They should bring that with them and leave it side-stage while they dance.
These are what we'll be using to play the music on the day, but just in case there's a technical hitch, please remember to bring a back-up CD for each of your child's dances.
They should bring that with them and leave it side-stage while they dance.
Running order
You can view and download the running order for Weymouth Dance Festival 2021.
You can view and download the running order for Weymouth Dance Festival 2021.
We intend to run a full festival in 2021, with solos (novice and open), duets, trios, quartets and groups. It is important however, that everyone is aware that as per last year, we remain subject to government restrictions. Therefore, should the current government plans change or the government impose further restrictions we will follow these, and shift to either a socially distanced festival or cancel the festival, whichever is required by restrictions.
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All England Qualifier and qualifying marks
This year Weymouth Dance Festival is an All England Qualifying Festival. Please note that qualifying marks are different to previous years:
Solos
Duets, trios/quartets and groups (all ages): 86
Age categories
Age categories this year are in line with All England for duets, trios and quartets:
The novice solo categories are:
Duets, trios and quartets
A dancer may only enter one duet and one trio or quartet per technique.
Music
This year we’ll be asking teachers to submit all the music for their school’s competitors (except where there is only one competitor from a particular school).
Photographer
We are delighted to welcome back Matt Round as our official festival photographer. Matt did such a great job last year and we’re so pleased he can join us again in 2021.
Spectators
We will update you nearer the festival on the number of spectators allowed per competitor.
This year Weymouth Dance Festival is an All England Qualifying Festival. Please note that qualifying marks are different to previous years:
Solos
- 6 years and under: 84
- 7 years+: 86
Duets, trios/quartets and groups (all ages): 86
Age categories
Age categories this year are in line with All England for duets, trios and quartets:
- 11 and under
- 15 and under
- 22 and under.
The novice solo categories are:
- 8, 9 and 10 years
- 11-14 years.
Duets, trios and quartets
A dancer may only enter one duet and one trio or quartet per technique.
Music
This year we’ll be asking teachers to submit all the music for their school’s competitors (except where there is only one competitor from a particular school).
Photographer
We are delighted to welcome back Matt Round as our official festival photographer. Matt did such a great job last year and we’re so pleased he can join us again in 2021.
Spectators
We will update you nearer the festival on the number of spectators allowed per competitor.
Our adjudicator
We are pleased to welcome to our Festival this year Miss Jayne Wing as our adjudicator in 2021.
Jayne has been an adjudicator with the British Federation since 2013 and All England Dance since 2017. She is also co-organiser of the Amber Valley Dance Festival - a BIFF registered dance festival. Jayne was responsible for the success of this very new festival, when it held its first year in early 2020. The festival then ran a successful online event in 2021.
Jayne is a an examiner with ISTD national faculty and holds her fellowship with the society in Tap, Modern and National. She is also a committee member of the national faculty and has held this post for a few years. Her responsibilities include the organisation and running of the Grandison Clarke Awards, the faculty's bi-annual event.
For three years Jayne has been the regional representative for the ISTD East Midlands area organising teaching courses and events and is responsible for listening to the society's members and their enquiries and liaising with the society on their behalf.
Jayne’s dance career started with classes at local dance schools in Leicester from the age of three. At 16 she went onto The Drusilla Duffill Theatre School where she received the school diploma and the Associate qualification with the ISTD in four genres.
After a brief spell working professionally in the West End and the UK, in 1987 Jayne opened the Pirouette Academy of Dance in Leicester which is now an ISTD approved Dance Centre. Jayne has been the principal of the school since the beginning. The school boasts excellent examination results and many pupils from the school now have careers in performing. Many teach dance both privately and in the state sector. The school competes in dance festivals and has had great success for many years.
Jayne is an approved tutor for the ISTD and tutors at three approved dance centres in the UK.
Jayne has been deeply saddened by the forced closure of many dance festivals due to the pandemic. She is very keen to help with the rebuilding of the dance festivals and ensuring all the festivals and their performers are reassured of a safe return.
Jayne has been an adjudicator with the British Federation since 2013 and All England Dance since 2017. She is also co-organiser of the Amber Valley Dance Festival - a BIFF registered dance festival. Jayne was responsible for the success of this very new festival, when it held its first year in early 2020. The festival then ran a successful online event in 2021.
Jayne is a an examiner with ISTD national faculty and holds her fellowship with the society in Tap, Modern and National. She is also a committee member of the national faculty and has held this post for a few years. Her responsibilities include the organisation and running of the Grandison Clarke Awards, the faculty's bi-annual event.
For three years Jayne has been the regional representative for the ISTD East Midlands area organising teaching courses and events and is responsible for listening to the society's members and their enquiries and liaising with the society on their behalf.
Jayne’s dance career started with classes at local dance schools in Leicester from the age of three. At 16 she went onto The Drusilla Duffill Theatre School where she received the school diploma and the Associate qualification with the ISTD in four genres.
After a brief spell working professionally in the West End and the UK, in 1987 Jayne opened the Pirouette Academy of Dance in Leicester which is now an ISTD approved Dance Centre. Jayne has been the principal of the school since the beginning. The school boasts excellent examination results and many pupils from the school now have careers in performing. Many teach dance both privately and in the state sector. The school competes in dance festivals and has had great success for many years.
Jayne is an approved tutor for the ISTD and tutors at three approved dance centres in the UK.
Jayne has been deeply saddened by the forced closure of many dance festivals due to the pandemic. She is very keen to help with the rebuilding of the dance festivals and ensuring all the festivals and their performers are reassured of a safe return.
About Weymouth Dance Festival
Weymouth Dance Festival was started in 2005 and has gained in strength and reputation since.
It takes place every year in The Bay Theatre, which is part of Weymouth College. Please note there is no Festival parking in the College grounds. Please use the free car park across the road, opposite the College entrance.
The festival is affiliated to The British & International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech and follows its rules and regulations. Our patron is Her Majesty The Queen.
We are a registered charity - no. 1169047.
It takes place every year in The Bay Theatre, which is part of Weymouth College. Please note there is no Festival parking in the College grounds. Please use the free car park across the road, opposite the College entrance.
The festival is affiliated to The British & International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech and follows its rules and regulations. Our patron is Her Majesty The Queen.
We are a registered charity - no. 1169047.
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