CCD AllStar Dance Bid

Local Inverness dance group win their first bid and are set to travel to Florida for an international competition

Transcript

00:00 I'm Cody, I'm 21 years old, I'm a gymnastics coach and a ripper from Tesco as well.

00:04 Hi, my name's Isaiah, I'm 17 and I'm still in school.

00:08 My name's Sophie, I'm 17 and I'm still in school as well.

00:11 I started dancing when I was 3 years old, I've done it ever since.

00:14 I've always loved dancing.

00:16 I actually went the later to go to study dance and then in my last year I unexpectedly became pregnant

00:22 so I moved back home and have a child now.

00:24 And being able to dance now has been so lovely.

00:28 I started dancing when I was about 4, way back.

00:33 I got dragged into it by my sister and I've been here ever since.

00:36 She's gone off to London now, I'm aspiring to be like her so I'm just waiting out finishing school.

00:44 It's hard to, you know, my school life and being a boy dancer but you know,

00:50 you've just got to get on with it, ignore what everyone's saying.

00:54 I started at CCD about 10 years ago, I kind of got into it from my friends from school, like Isaac told me about it.

01:00 I currently teach 3 teams now at CCD as well as dancing myself

01:05 and I'm currently auditioning for dance schools for uni next year.

01:09 I can literally leave all my troubles at the door, I forget about any problems or worries I have.

01:14 I just come in, express myself through my dancing and it's just my passion

01:18 so I was just able to put how I feel into a dance.

01:22 My name is Diane and I have been teaching at CCD All Stars since it was founded in 2011.

01:29 What the children that come through the doors, leaves some life.

01:34 It teaches them discipline, it teaches them life lessons,

01:38 it's somewhere that they can come to feel completely safe and encompassed

01:43 and just to learn new skills with each other.

01:45 It's really, really nerve-wracking and it's a huge thing, especially coming from up here,

01:49 all the costs associated, coming from the Highlands, even going to Glasgow for us,

01:53 it's a lot of money to go to compete down there, so travelling internationally is a huge, huge thing for us.

01:58 It's the first time our team has won any type of bid, so they're just over the moon.

02:04 A lot of our kids, our seniors are going to be going off to university after this season's done,

02:10 which is sad, but it's so nice for them to have that memory to look back on.