Produced by Bryan McIvor pupils from the Kelly & Mandy Watson Academy of Dance in Hartlepool hold a Christmas and millennium concert. Dancers and singers in various costumes perform routines on a stage for family and friends. In the second half of the performance their own version of the Oscars with mainly girls performing song or dance routines based around the winners in each of five categories. In a darkened auditorium a seated crowd watches a set of stage curtains open revealing the...

Produced by Bryan McIvor pupils from the Kelly & Mandy Watson Academy of Dance in Hartlepool hold a Christmas and millennium concert. Dancers and singers in various costumes perform routines on a stage for family and friends. In the second half of the performance their own version of the Oscars with mainly girls performing song or dance routines based around the winners in each of five categories. In a darkened auditorium a seated crowd watches a set of stage curtains open revealing the stage behind it. Members of the Watson Academy of Dance appear on stage in costume and begin to perform a dance routine based around the film ‘Star Wars’. The performance over they leave the stage to be replaced by another group of dancers who perform a routine based on ‘Dr Who’. The remainder of the first half consists of various song and dance routines performed in the main by girl and young women of various ages sometimes individually, but mainly as part of a troupe. Science fiction is a common theme for many but not all the routines. The audience applauds between each one. In the second half a woman and girl actor as compares to the ‘Watson’s Academy of Dance Answer to the Oscars’. Dancers and singers perform routines based around the winner of each of the five categories; best children’s programme (Enid Blyton), best romance film (Titanic), Best Action Film (James Bond), Best Disney Animation (Snow White) and best comedy film (The Full Monty) as well as an additional nomination for best record ever produced as seen from children’s point of view (Toni Basil’s ‘Hey Mickey’). The female compare speaks with the audience and the concert comes to an ends with a routine involving the performers dressing in national costumes from around the world followed by others dancing around Union Jacks to the National Anthem being sung.