PERFORMERS from the Edinburgh Dance Academy (EDA) are celebrating after securing a total of 15 medals, including four golds, at this year’s Dance World Cup in Portugal.
EDA’s 10-13-year-old Contemporary Group were among the gold medal winners, taking the top honours for their routine titled Lovely, choregraphed by teacher Jenni Inglis.
In total the EDA took 72 pupils to the event, making up the largest group of the Team Scotland contingent.
Inglis, who was named the top choreographer for the UK and Ireland at the Dance Inspirations competition in Blackpool earlier this year, was also the creator of two other gold medal winning dances.
They were Someone to Stay, a solo performance by Finn McFeely (below), 15, and Hip Hip, Chin Chin, a jazz trio which featured McFeely along with 17-year-old Paige Gay and 16-year-old Rhianne McAllister.
The 16-year-old scooped a further gold in the 14-17-year-old category for her commercial solo dance Fancy.
McFeely also picked up two of EDA’s silver medals, for his jazz solo Jumpin Jack and as part of Embers, a Ballet duo performed with 14-year-old Megan Hannay, which was choreographed by teacher Millie Thomas.
Ava Robinson also secured a Team Scotland silver for EDA for her lyrical solo I will wait in the 10-13-year-old category.
A further eight bronze medals were won for Team Scotland by EDA dancers across a range of group performances. In total, 52 of the dances performed by competitors from the highly-regarded Edinburgh school secured Top 10 placings at the week-long Dance World Cup, staged in Braga, Portugal. The competition featured more than 7500 dancers from all parts of the globe.
The school’s delegation was comprised of dancers from its Performance Group, aged between seven and 18, with teacher Hannah Boyle also competing for Scotland in the Over-18 section.
