Tip-tapping dancers from Bacup were picked to help a national charity launch its world record attempt. The studio at Dansworks Dance Academy, in the Pioneer Buildings, became the focus for Pudsey Bear and a film crew. Members of Bacup Dansworks Dance Academy meet Pudsey. They were shooting

By a year most babies have taken their first steps, but Jayden Leigh had not even learnt how to crawl properly. Street dancing family… Jack, Jayden and Kelsey Leigh. Being born with the congenital deformity talipes or club foot, both his feet were put into plaster casts

A dance academy in Bacup is backing calls to restore pride in the town. Last month youths, some as young as nine, ran amok in Bacup town centre smashing windows and property in a rampage which mimicked rioting in larger towns and cities. Backing Bacup: Karen Scott-Roe,

Talented youngster Charlie Morris not only won two individual class awards in one of her first dancing competitions she also walked off with a huge trophy for most promising novice. Charlie, 9, attends classes five days a week at Bacup’s Dansworks Dance Academy. Award-winning dancer Charlie Morris.

Dancers from an academy in Bacup joined with millions of people across the country in a nationwide world record tap dancing attempt. Dansworks Dance Academy was selected by the organisers of the Children In Need fund-raiser, The Performers’ Project, to help launch the tapathon event in June

Dansworks Dance Academy were nominated for the ‘Business and the Community’ award at the Rossendale Business Awards 2011. Dansworks were nominated by customers in recognition of the work they are doing with adults and children with special or additional needs, both physical and educational. The eventual winners

Seven young dancers earned themselves a place in the World Street Dance Championships when their trendy routine caught the judge’s eye. Slingshot is a junior crew of street dancers aged eight to 10 from Bacup’s Dansworks Dance Academy who performed in their first competition at the prestigious

Huge trophy haul for Dansworks street dancers YOUNG dancers from a studio in Bacup scooped an amazing 33 trophies and nine medals from a single competition. The members of Bacup’s Dansworks Dance Academy, aged six to 16, competed in the Greater Manchester Street Dancing Compeition at the

A festive fair to promote Bacup brought tears to the eyes of one resident as she watched people placing hearts on the Christmas Wishes tree. That’s my heart: Nine-year-old Leon Watson with his heart on the Christmas Wishes tree. Children from Sharneyford and Northern Primary Schools had

Young street dancers from Bacup locked, popped and break danced their way to be picked as the best in the country. Jacob Ainsworth, nine, and Heathcliff Howard, eight, both in Year 4, represented Britannia Primary School and won their section in the National School’s Street Dance Championships