Gielgudian and GAPA guest teacher Matt Hill (Trevorrow) gave a brilliant performance last night at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, cheered on by his GAPA supporters – Mrs G, Miss Laura,  Head Girl Eloise Harwood, Dance Captain Maddie Wrigley, Head Prefect Olivia Floydd, Prefect Scarlett Gielgud and Team GAPA Allison Huggins. Matt is in the cast of the hit show which is touring the UK until November 2018. Photo at stage door of Matt with his GAPA supporters!

GAPA pupils were inspired by a trip to the Hawth, Crawley last night, to see the touring production of Ballet Central Ballet Company. The GAPA pupils chatted afterwards to the Ballet Central students about their future careers. All the performers last night have now graduated from Central School of Ballet and are embarking upon their lives as professional dancers, some with Northern Ballet Company and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.

Former British Prima Ballerina Dame Beryl Grey, Eastenders TV and West End star John Partridge and Republica Rock Star Saffron, were guests of honour at our end of year production ‘Showtime 2018’ at the Hawth in Crawley on June 22^nd.

The performance included ballet, modern, tap, drama and musical theatre numbers  and music played live by the seven piece GAPA Band onstage. After the matinee and evening show came the annual prize giving ceremony where the VIPs presented over 40 medals, awards and cups to deserving pupils for progress and outstanding achievements. 

Dame Beryl Grey said afterwards “The standard of dancing, the incredible number of super ideas, everything was so very enjoyable and entertaining – I felt I must be at a West End show. Congratulations on a remarkable evening – what a lot of work you have put in to have achieved such a high standard” 

Congratulations to GAPA pupils Caitlin Bending, Bella Cavalli, Amelia Worssam, Etienne Cleeve and Katie Muller, who competed in the Southern heats of the Janet Cram Awards on Sunday 13th May 2018.

All girls danced brilliantly well, and we are very very proud of them.

Congratulations to GAPA pupil Martha Gibson, who competed in the South Eastern heats of the Janet Cram Awards on Sunday 6th May 2018.

Martha danced beautifully, and we are very proud of her.

Congratulations to GAPA pupil Martha Gibson, who recently performed with London Children’s Ballet in their 2018 production of ‘The Canterville Ghost’.

Over 670 dancers from the UK auditioned, and Martha was delighted to be one of the chosen few to be cast.

Huge congratualtions to Gielgudian Isaac Edwards who has just opened in the new West End musical ‘Bat Out of Hell’ at the Dominion. Isaac was at GAPA 2012-2013 before going to London Studio Centre to finish his training. Isaac has been an occasional guest jazz teacher at GAPA since then and choreographed the Men In Black jazz number for our 2015 show Motion Pictures. Isaac is the second Gielgudian to turn professional, following in the footsteps of Carina Howard in the Mark Bruce Company. News of a GAPA trip to see Isaac follows soon…

Mrs Gielgud and Miss Laura thoroughly enjoyed watching GAPA pupil Katie Muller, who performed brilliantly in the Panto “Snow White & the Seven Dwarves”, at The Hawth Theatre in Crawley.

Congratulations to the following GAPA pupils who performed with the Vienna Festival Ballet (VFB) in their production of The Nutcracker at the Clair Hall in Haywards Heath in December ; Isabelle Hateley, Bella Cavalli, Isabella Evans, Emily Martin, Oliver Charman, Willem Paskins and Martha and Alice Gibson who are photographed here with VFB Ballet mistresss Emily Hufton (centre).