A brief history of our Dancing School
The
Dancing school was formed in 2000 when the secretary of a local Pipe
band approached Donna Nelson and her sister Kimberley Black (now
Davies) with the idea that they form a small Highland dancing team
which he hoped could become an intergral part of the Pipe Band
Display. However to form an effective
Display team they needed at
least two more dancers so they commenced teaching two volunteers.
Word of this quickly spread and the demand for highland dancing
lessons soon became so great that a second class was started in
Blyth to cope with demand.
Donna and her sister started Highland dancing when they were four and three respectively, with Aurea Atkinson's dancing school in Blyth. They were both highly successful in Highland Dancing Competitions winning cupboardfulls of Medals and Trophies, and they both enjoyed trips away to folk festivals in Foreign Lands to dance with the local Pipe Band.
Donna met her Husband, who was a drummer at the time in the pipe band; while on one of these trips and they now have three children, the youngest of whom(Heather) has inherited her mother's love of Highland Dancing.
The Dancing school still has two classes a week at two venues in Northumberland and perform regularly now with North Tyneside Pipeband.
Donna and her sister started Highland dancing when they were four and three respectively, with Aurea Atkinson's dancing school in Blyth. They were both highly successful in Highland Dancing Competitions winning cupboardfulls of Medals and Trophies, and they both enjoyed trips away to folk festivals in Foreign Lands to dance with the local Pipe Band.
Donna met her Husband, who was a drummer at the time in the pipe band; while on one of these trips and they now have three children, the youngest of whom(Heather) has inherited her mother's love of Highland Dancing.
The Dancing school still has two classes a week at two venues in Northumberland and perform regularly now with North Tyneside Pipeband.