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Donovans Academy of Dance & Theatre Arts

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Donovans Academy of Dance & Theatre Arts

Branches in Dagenham, Colchester & Brantham

Classes in Dance, Singing, Acting, Acrobatics and Musi Dance, Acrobatic, Singing, Acting & Musical Theatre Classes

04/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 3rd and 5th in the World for Adult Lyrical Jazz Solos 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Wow what a section of talent from all over and you girls shined and presented gorgeous technique and beautiful emotion. You should be so proud of this achievement!

Well done to you both, proud as always ✨❤️

Choreography .choreography

03/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 World Champions in Junior Lyrical Jazz Formation 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Loyal, Brave and True 🐉❤️

From Disney to worlds, I love watching you perform this routine, from our youngest to our oldest you danced with so much passion. I love you dancing this routine 🥰

Proud as always ✨

Choreography .choreography

03/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 3rd in the World in Youth Jazz Solo 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Lady is a Vamp!

Our girly brought all the sass, charisma, energy and technique to this jazz solo. Ivy your personality is infectious, I couldn’t take my eyes from you! I absolutely LOVED watching you perform this!

Last time performing this routine and we have gone out with a bang 💥

Proud as always ✨

Choreography .choreography

02/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 Runner Up, 7th and 9th Place in Youth Lyrical Jazz Solo 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Huge well done to our little .may.pierson for 2nd place, we set ourselves a challenge with this piece and your delivered! You should be so proud of the dancer you are becoming.

7th place goes to our lovely you have worked so incredibly hard in the build up to this event and I’m proud you got recognition for that! Be proud of yourself!

9th place goes to where you begin, the growth you have made this academic year has been huge!! I’m absolutely loving the work ethic, self-confidence and dancer you are becoming! Be proud of yourself achievement!

Proud as always ✨

All choreographed by .choreography

01/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 World Champions in Youth Jazz Duet 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

WOW!! These girls brought the energy, technique and ALL the faces!! I LOVED watching you both perform this routine and already excited to see it again!

Well done to you both! Be proud of yourselves! ✨

01/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 7th in the World in Youth 2 Fantasy Solo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Snake Solo 🐍

Wow! This was one of the hardest section with several rounds and our got 7th in the world in her fantasy (character acro) solo!

Kaitlin the individual growth you have made these past 6 months have been huge but seeing you use come over your fear of smiling and using your face on stage has been the biggest joy of them all!

We are so immensely proud of you and I hope you are proud of yourself too! ✨

Choreography .maria

01/06/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 6th Place in Fantasy Youth 1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

SpongeBob Square Pants 💛🍍

Our .aoife.h brought all the energy and faces of SpongeBob and brought this fantasy (character acro) solo to life!

Well done Minnie, you should be so proud of yourself and what you have achieved in such a tough section, what an exciting feeling it was to get through to the finals and be placed in 6th in the world!

Proud as always ✨

Choreography .choreography

31/05/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 Third in the World for Adult Small Contemporary 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Eleanor Rigby ❤️

This piece is certainly one of my favourite pieces I’ve choreographed and I’m so immensely proud of this team. Well done to the 4 Colchester branch students who stepped in to learn this. Only a couple of times they got chance to rehearse with the Dagenham students and our Dagenham students had to learn new spacing and counts!

Your dedication and work ethic to this event has been so commendable, well done!

Proud as always ✨

29/05/2026

🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WORLD CHAMPION IN ADULT BALLET 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆

Well done .h_dancerx for this award, you have worked immensely hard this year on your pointe work and I’ve seen so much growth within your ballet!

Keep striving, we are all so proud of you ❤️✨

Choreography .choreography

28/05/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 Jazz Championships in Youth Formation 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

So proud of our Bellhop Boogie team they brought the energy, the sass, ALL the faces and completely entertained us!

Well done team, proud of each and everyone of you ❤️

Bring on where we get to perform this again at the 02 at the National Finals ✨

Choreography .choreography

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Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	9am - 6:30pm
Thursday	9am - 10pm
Friday	9am - 8pm
Saturday	9am - 4pm

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07940714880

Website

https://www.donovansacademy.co.uk/

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