Emily Bennett

Emily has been teaching dance for 8 years and choreographing for 11 years. Alongside her career in marketing she did her teachers qualification with the British Ballet Organisation. She has completed qualifications in safe dance practice, VARK teaching styles and music & creative copyrighting and enjoys using her knowledge to teach a variety of students of different ages. She has taught at the University of Southampton for 5 years, taking weekly classes in Jazz and Contemporary and loves choreographing for their yearly show 'Pure Dance'. She loves helping students at Continuity develop and progress and passing on her passion for choreography to the amazing talent we have in the company. This year Emily has run and choreographed for Team 21, Team 22 and the Show Team as well as overseeing the general running of the company and taking company class. A highlight of the year for Emily was winning first place at Legacy Cheer and Dance London as well as second place in Jazz at Blackpool Winter Gardens this season.

Georgia Towson

Georgia is an experienced choreographer, creating multiple award winning competition pieces over the past years . Georgia studied choreography as a student and enjoys passing on her skills to others, teaching workshops to secondary schools to, teaching at Continuity and taking classes at local dance schools. This year Georgia has single handedly run and choreographed for Team 22 and done an absolutely incredible job, producing some of the Jazz and Contemporary pieces you will see on stage today. A highlight of the year for Georgia was winning the "Best Choreography' out of over 107 routines back in march and Ultimate Victory Dance Competition as well as bringing home a second place trophy at Legacy Cheer and Dance Birmingham. Georgia has shown an outstanding commitment to Continuity Dance Company, working endlessly to support in leadership, event management and organisation and we are so grateful for the love, passion and dedication she has provided this year.

Josh Gascoigne

Josh learnt to dance at Pineapple Performing Arts School and spent 3 years competing and training with NXT and Sandbox Ldn. In later years, Josh began teaching at Pineapple Dance Studios along with many other dance schools around London and had a wealth of experience developing dancers in different styles. Josh danced in the afro and street teams throughout his master's degree and went on to captain and choreograph for his university street team for 3 years, placing at almost every competition he attended. He also choreographed showstopper pieces for his university show, pure dance, which were known for being incredibly clean, creative and huge crowd pleasers. This year Josh has shown a relentless commitment to running the street team whilst battling a back injury and has overcome countless hurdles to continue teaching for the team. We are so honoured to have three of his pieces on stage tonight and are incredibly thankful for the time and energy he has given to Continuity. What a legend!

Eleanor Lake

Eleanor is our incredible Tap Choreographer and has choreographed the tap number you will see on stage tonight. She is just a little bit famous with a whopping 80k followers on TikTok with one of her tap videos having 9.8 million views. Eleanor trained in ISTD tap, ballet, and modern for several years, including competing in dance festivals across the south coast before having a break from dance before university. At uni she fell back in love with tap & continued training virtually with incredible tap dancers & teachers all over the world during lockdown. She captained Southampton’s Advanced Tap Squad in 2022, for which she was awarded 2nd in the country at Nationals, and won Best Choreography at Southampton Dance Competition! Eleanor has also been lucky enough to be ambassador for Move Dancewear amongst a couple of other dance brands to create tap content for their channels. We are so excited to have Eleanor choreograph for the tap team in a more permanent role next year and cannot wait to see what she produces with a bigger team!