AN Edinburgh dance team is set to represent Scotland at an international competition in Portugal next month.
A total of 72 pupils from the Edinburgh Dance Academy (EDA) will make up the Scottish team at the Dance World Cup – it will be the largest contingent ever to attend from Scotland.
They will be among the 7500 dancers from across the globe taking part in the week-long competition in the city of Braga from June 30 to July 8.
The EDA delegation will be comprised of dancers from its Performance Group, aged between seven and 18.
The performers will take part in the Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Show and Commercial sections with EDA teacher Hannah Boyle also competing for Scotland in the Over-18 section performing a solo dance.
In total, the group will take part in more than 100 acts where they hope to emulate the school’s gold medal-winning success when it last travelled abroad to compete at the 2018 Dance World Cup in Spain.
The dances have been choreographed by Hannah Boyle, Megan Ireland, Millie Thomas, Ellen West and Jenni Inglis, who was named the UK’s most inspirational choreographer at the British Isles competition held earlier this year in Blackpool.
Some of the EDA competitors taking part in the Dance World Cup took a break from rehearsals in order to unveil their new Scotland track suits which the team will proudly wear at this summer’s event.
