Christmas competitions and giveaways are all part of the fun here at BCD, not only have our instructors been competing for £200 cash for the most of their dancers who achieved their splits by Christmas Eve – our dancers have competing too by providing us with their SPLITMAS pics!

It’s been a tough choice, but the winning picture has to go to Stevi Tidmarsh from South Yorkshire, for not only achieving her Box Splits (before anyone else!) but those Christmas Chaps are incredible!

Well done Stevi! You have won either a Personalized Kit Bag or Hoody (you chose).

Top job everyone, congratulations to Stevi and Merry Christmas to one and all! xx

SPLITMAS WINNER!
Our instructors have been competing to WIN £200 cash on Christmas Eve – the instructor who had the most dancers in their splits (courtesy of Flex It classes) took the cash!

Drumroll……….

1st Place with 16 dancers – Tormenta de Fuego (Keren our Rotherham instructor)

Joint 2nd Place with 15 dancers:

Crimson Storm & Krystal Spirit (Emma & Karen our West Yorkshire instructors)

Absolutely AMAZING effort ladies well done!! Congratulations to Keren on winning the cash, and congratulations to Emma & Karen – top effort!! xx

Every year here at BCD we crown our ‘Instructor of The Year’, normally at our Annual Shows where instructors are recognized for their outstanding effort & achievements in building their dancers confidence and through breath taking performances.

This year however we’ve been unable to host our shows, so we’ve picked our ‘Instructor of The Year 2020’ based on the instructor who has shone the brightest, helped the hardest, put all their dancers first and lifted everyone’s spirits during the darkest times.

‘Instructor Of The Year 2020 – Lockdown Legend’ without a doubt goes to Crimson Storm in West Yorkshire!
Not only did Miss ‘il never do the splits’ get into the splits herself after just 2 weeks of Flex It classes – she came 2nd in our SPLITMAS competition with 15 dancers achieving their splits in less than 9 weeks!
She took on 30 dancers from an instructor struggling to cope with Christmas (yep, me lol – she covered for the Boss! Which must have been scary).

She took to Facebook every day to host our online chair challenges, across all pages! And hated every minute of it, but never whinged (well, took the mess but happily cracked on!).

She kept morale high (mainly because she’s hilarious), when spirits dropped and negativity reared it’s ugly head, Emma swooped in with a giggle and quickly lowered the tone until there was no issue remembered by anyone!
She’s made herself available to every dancer, every instructor and Head Office consistently all year.
Emma you are our Lockdown Legend and deserve to be recognized for your outstanding achievements. AND we wanted to give you something lovely (florists are not delivering over Crimbo due to covid and border closes) so £200 cash is in your bank account now to go buy yourself lots of lovely GIN, flowers & sash will arrive as soon as possible!

Thank you for all your hard work, dedication, commitment and hilarity throughout 2020,
xxx BCD HQ xxx

The Instructor who gets the most dancers into their Splits by Christmas (SPLITMAS!) will receive £200 cash on Christmas Eve, deposited into their bank account!

Our Instructors have been badly affected by lockdown and they need you to add a little sparkle back into their lives! Seeing your glowing faces when you achieve your splits is the BEST Christmas present you could give to your Instructor.

We will need photographic/video evidence please! So, when you hit your splits on the lead up to SPLITMAS send a picture to your instructor!

Good Luck!

Flex It classes start next week across the UK!

All our Instructors have been busy training over the last week to open brand NEW Flex It classes, these one hour stretch classes are designed to train all our dancers into the SPLITS!

We’re offering Scissor Split & Box Split classes and we can’t wait to see you all both live & online in November!

Speak to your instructor today and join the waiting list for FLEX IT!

Pride in Sheffield are an amazing organisation, a committee elected by the community to deliver Pride and to provide wonderful support to the LGBTQ+ community in the glorious Steel City! Every year Pride In Sheffield is a huge event in the Summer, with amazing performances and of course the all important Pride parade!

Our fabulous Sheffield girls performed at the event last year…on a very wet and rainy Saturday. You may think that dampened our spirits but oh no! The rain drove a very big and noisy bunch of people right into the drag and burlesque tent, giving us the most amazing audience! Our girls dried themselves off and wowed the crowd with the most amazing performance of Burlesque Chair Dance classics! We couldn’t wait to come back this year until…coronavirus. Not that a global pandemic can stop the event organisers or Sheffield & Rotherham Burlesque Chair Dance!

Summer 2020 Pride In Sheffield is going digital! This Saturday 25th July at 6pm our fantastic Sheffield and Rotherham girls will be taking to their chairs to entertain you on Facebook live via the Pride In Sheffield Facebook page, as well as other fantastic performers such as singers and spoken word!

I’m so happy to introduce you to our amazing girls who will be joining me online at this event – Fanny Flamingo’d, Miss Roxy Dream, Sassy Delight, Lady Crystal and Emmie. All sassy, all sexy, all fabulous!

Hope you guys can make it! Keep an eye out for our videos coming up on Facebook!

Lotsa love and stay fabulous,

Midnight Blue xx

Have you always wanted to learn to do the splits? Have you struggled with your flexibility and never really found the time to work on them? Or have you been so close for so long and need an extra push?

We are teaching Splits Training sessions online throughout lockdown! Our aim is to get you all in the splits by the time we return to live classes! In the last 3-4 weeks we’ve already seen 30% of the class achieve their perfect splits! And YOU can too!

Splits Training classes are;

Wednesdays 10am-11am
Fridays 6pm-7pm

Our online classes cost ONLY £10 a month! That’s just £2.50 a week, and you can access 4 Burlesque Chair Dance Classes alongside your splits classes for FREE!

All you need is an electronic device & an internet connection. Contact us now to sign up – there’s no contract, no minimum term – it’s simply £10 every 4 weeks.

info@burlesquechairdance.co.uk
Call/text Bella Diamond (Donna) on 07891292659

We can’t wait to see you! xx

With the government having closed all pubs, clubs, leisure center’s and social gatherings for the foreseeable future, we’ve moved our Burlesque Chair Dance classes online! We estimate these government restrictions will be in place for at least 3 months (12 weeks minimum) so, you can all keep on dancing from home – we’re even welcoming new dancers!

All you need is a chair, a dance space of approximately 1.5-meter square and an electronic internet device (laptop/iPad/Phone).

Chair hire is available in certain areas at no extra cost; however, we do require a 12-week payment in advance (minimum £30) as we anticipate being unable to recover our chairs until the coronavirus debacle has passed. It’s first come first served for chair hire so please act quickly!

The cost of our online classes start from just £10 for 4 weeks and is unlimited! You can join as many classes as you choose from just £2.50 a week! We require payments in advance every 4 weeks, feel free to pay for a block of 4, 8 or 12 if you find it easier to budget.

As this is only a temporary situation there is NO CONTRACT, you sign up month by month with no sign up or cancellation fee!

To find out more, ask questions or to sign up please contact us via email: info@burlesquechairdance.co.uk

Tell us where you live so we can match you up with your local instructor, that way you can keep attending classes if you want to when the nation returns to normal!

Hello beautiful ladies…..I’m just popping on to say hi all the way from the beautiful Isle of Wight, we maybe a small island but by god we’ve taken it by storm! Let me share our news with you all……a few months ago the charity Wessex Cancer Trust announced their crisis appeal on the news, to raise £600,000 by 31st January or face closure…..Harry Rednapp jumped on board as an ambassador and publicly announced his promise to help with the campaign, as the charity is close to the heart of a lady who attends one of my classes we just had to do something! So we all rallied round and put together in a matter of weeks our second Burlesque-athon. Myself, Amanda Cooney and Vicky Fisher (instructors) organised the dancing aspect and the the amazing Jade Lawrence and Sarah Dann took the reins on the publicity side of things, arranging stalls, cakes etc, we even had our very own BCD®️ photographer Laura Holme who not only took part in the dancing but jumped in and out to take all the fantastic photos too! We had the fabulous Marilyn opening the event aka ‘Foxy Faux Fur’ Drag extraordinaire, Tony Dye our fabulous Butler in the Buff…. With approximately 40 ladies taking part it was certainly a day to remember…..and we raised a massive £2273.75 for Wessex Cancer Trust.

Lorraine the events manager for fundraising from Wessex thanked us all personally by attending our class so we could proudly present the cheque to her and the excitement did not stop there as she invited me as a special guest to go and meet Harry Redknapp at an exclusive Wessex meet and greet, so Harry could thank the fundraisers in person, only downside is I wish I could of taken all the girls but sadly this was not possible.

A BBC Radio Solent presenter paid one of my classes a visit recently as she was very intrigued as to what we get up to in class…..Melanie came and interviewed a few of our ladies and chatted to me then audio recorded some of the class in action, so hopefully I will be able to post the link up soon once she has released it.

And finally…..The Cabaret Team! I am very excited to announce that we have our very own Cabaret Team, after much stress and hair pulling under the expert guidance of Boss Lady Donna we have BCD®️ IOW Cabaret Team, with a blend of talented ladies who have shown true commitment, determination, sass and the ability to perform to a very high standard. So if you want to add something different to one of your events then give me a shout, available for bookings now, but be quick as 2020 diary is filling up!

Sending you all my love and sass xxx

Sarah Spillane (Mimi Vin Rouge)
Area Manager Isle of Wight