Dance Team England Win Dance World Cup 2015 – Official World Champions

England clinched the Dance World Cup on Saturday night (July 4) for the third time in a row.

Four hundred and forty dancers from England aged 5-18 made their way to Bucharest, Romania to take part in Dance World Cup 2015. The largest International Dance competition of its kind attracts 3000 dancers from across the world take part from 38 Countries including Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Moldova, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Kazakhstan to name but a few.

The English Team won 49 Gold Medals, 46 Silver Medals and 46 Bronze Medals and were awarded the Dance World Cup 2015 for scoring the most points from all the Countries participating. This is the third time in succession that Team England has won the Dance World Cup.

Team England boasts some of the best dancers in the Country in the team – amongst them we have Scarlet Roche who is currently playing the role of Baby June in Gypsy alongside Imelda Staunton in the West End. Scarlet also has played the leading role Matilda and Verruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – three West End shows at the age of 12 years old. Owen Pennington from Zoe Pennington Dance School who is currently in Gypsy in the West End too. The team also includes Redmond Rance a former Billy Elliot in the West End show who is now in a CBBC drama Hetty Feather, Talia Duff a former Ballet Girl in Billy Elliot, Bryony Way currently a Ballet Girl in Billy Elliot, and we also have three of the dancers from the current Dance Mums UK series Chloe Fenton, Chloe Greenwood and Molly Thorpe-Franklin plus dancers from Freeman Dance School who featured in the film “Nativity 3”.

Team Manager Jo Arnett says “The dancers raised the money themselves to pay for the week long trip to Romania undertaking many fundraising events including bag packing at local supermarkets, putting on a show, cake sales and sponsored events such as Ride to Romania – clocking up the miles from England to Romania on their bikes! They have trained so hard to get to Romania and were constantly in the rehearsal studios when they got to the competition – they are dedicated, disciplined dancers – I am proud of each and every one of them – it really was a superb Team England 2015”.

Team England dancers are the champions of the world 2015, 2014 and 2013.