Big Dance  

The Big Dance was a national initiative to raise the profile of dance,  a week-long celebration of dance that kicked off on Saturday 15 July.

Big Dance is a Mayor of London initiative being organised in partnership with Arts Council England, which aimed to promote dance as a social and physical activity, as well as an art form – and London as a world city of dance.  

Ceroc provided 70 of the dancers for the record breaking mass choreographed dance held at Trafalgar Square.

Ceroc was also involved in dance class and demos all over the country.

The Big dance was shown live on BBC1.

A huge thank you to all the Ceroc dancers from across the country who took part with special thanks to all the team leaders especially Emma Pettitt and Alex Faulkner.

 

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The team put in an enormous amount of effort with practise sessions up to 3 times per week for the last 2 months - we would like to thank you all:

Choreographers – Emma Pettitt & Alex Faulkner

Team Leaders – Ruth Quigley, George Rundle, Lisa Richardson & Tim Sant

And of course the team:

Toni Whitehouse, Riaz Chutoo, Chelsea Rossiter, Bradley Rossiter, Lona Thomas, John Chambers, Julia Schumacher, Clarence Taylor, Kelly Danks, Mark Kerr, Denise Smith, Darren Taylor, Pam Challand, Ian Challand, Dot Bussey, Keith Brandon, Liz Plaskett, Gary Woolhead, Emily Ward, Ibby Elrasoul, Irene Wooldridge, Michael Hodges, Tessa Loughlin, Elly Economides, Kumar Armon, Atalia Fuller, Scott Wannell, Marina Timofeeva, Chuhr Nijjar, Debbie Pole, Andy Thomas, Mark Nelson , Sarah Howells, Alex McKinven, Jackie White, Garry Orr, Adrian Barfield, Mas Masugata, Philomena Steer, Kevin Kapp, Henrieta Fazekasova, Dave Kemp, Paula Ruffell, Owen Keyes Evans, Vanessa Emery, Douglas Rayner, Shirley Armitage, Mitchell Gregor, Kathleen Lo, David Stubbs, Nadia Majid, Mike Lucas, Philippa Witcher, Yun Ki Lee, Faye Bennett, Eamonn Cummins, Karen Allan, Eddie Chan, Jo Hows, Asif Malik, Julianna Franchetti, Robin Jack Kee, Rochelle Remnant, Lee Lanendum, Sarah Mahaffey-Verlinden, Faruk Ak, Kim Nguyen and Rob French


Many thanks to you all – you did Ceroc and yourselves proud!
Mike Ellard

 

Matthew Cutler - Professional Latin dancer

Nicole Cutler - Professional Latin dancer

Stars from the 'Strictly Dance Fever' show

Brucey himself

Emma and Alex from Ceroc Central (both team leaders)

Lisa from Ceroc Kent one of the team leaders

George from CerocLondon also one of the team leaders

Tim from CerocLondon also one of the team leaders

Ruth from CerocLondon also one of the team leaders

Val who has tirelessly worked with Arts council and the team leaders.