Janet Cram Awards
We also enter pupils for the Janet Cram Modern dance Awards each year. The semi-finals are held in Swindon and those who qualify will dance in London. Former pupil Kerry-Anne O'Brien who went on to The Royal Ballet Upper School won the Premier section in 2004 and James Mackie who went on to train at Laine Theatre Arts won the Boys Cup in 2006. Brad Corben followed in James footsteps and won the Premier section in 2008 and went on to win a Gold medal at the All England Dance Competition finals in 2009 at the Peacock Theatre London. Other medal winners 2009 were Chantelle Shortland, Jaimie Thomas, Lottie Smith and Lily Laight Silver medalists for Ballet/Modern Ballet and Character.

This year the school has five pupils through to the London finals.

Fontene Nureyev Young Dancer of the Year Awards.
The School has also enjoyed enormous success with pupils entered for this new and very prestigious award. In 2006 pupils from Buckingham Dance Studios won three out of the four places available for dancers from the South (from Bristol down).

The finals were held at The Lowry Centre, Manchester. Oliver Taylor pictured receiving his award from Dame Antoinette Sibley won the Junior section and Matilda Naylor came runner up in the Senior section.   

West End Staring Role for pupil
Pupil Oliver Taylor landed the role of Billy Elliot in Londons West End in 2007, the school organised a trip to see him whilst dancing in the All England Finals of 2007

Graduates from Buckingham Dance Studios

• 2001 Helen Collins scholarship to Bird College of Performing Arts
• 2001 Adam French scholarship to Bird College of Performing Arts
• 2001 Claire Edworthy scholarship to Bird College of Performing Arts
• 2002 Wesley Waring full scholarship to Ballet Rambert
• 2003 Lucy O'Neill scholarship to Performers College
• 2004 Sophie Gilbert scholarship to Tring Park Arts Educational
• 2004 Kerr-Anne O'Brien scholarship to The Royal Ballet Upper School
• 2004 Anna Shircliff scholarship to Elmhurst Birmingham Royal Ballet
• 2005 Emily Gilbert scholarship to Tring Park Arts Educational
• 2005 Laura Pinsent scholarship to Tring Park Arts Educational
• 2005 Hannah Evans scholarship to Laine Theatre Arts
• 2006 James Mackie scholarship to Laine Theatre Arts
• 2007 Eleanor Sharpe scholarship to English National Ballet School
• 2008 Matilda Naylor full scholarship tp Ballet Rambert
• 2008 Lucy Dennis full scholarship to Whitelodge Royal Ballet Junior School
• 2009 Brad Corben full scholarship to Laine Theatre Arts
• 2009 Chantelle Shortland full scholarship to Laine Theatre Arts
• 2009 Laetitia Coulson full scholarship to Italia Conti
• 2009 Georgi Franks full scholarship to Italia Conti
• 2009 Bethan Moorhouse full scholarship to Italia Conti

Royal Ballet Associate programme
The school also encourages pupils to audition for The Royal Ballet Outreach Programme, which enables children from age nine to sixteen can travel to Bristol or London to attend classes with members and ex members of The Royal Ballet Company.
Buckingham Dance Studios currently has nine pupils involved in all three levels Junior Associate, Mid Associate and Senior Associate.

But you don't have to be an expert or a budding ballerina to join Buckingham Dance Studios with plenty of Modern, Tap, Jazz and Street Jazz style classes. It's a fun way for your children to exercise and be a part of something they will remember all their lives.

The Teaching Staff
All the staff at Buckingham Dance Studios are fully qualified registered members of The Royal Academy of Dance and The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance, BBO Tap, all of the senior members of staff have had professional dance careers in Ballet Companies throughout the world and the West End in hit London Musicals.