BBC Young Dancer | |
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Awarded for | Exceptional dancing talent |
Location | Various; Roundhouse, London (2022) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Reward(s) | Trophy and £3,000 (main prize) |
First awarded | 2015 |
Last awarded | 2022 |
Winner | Adhya Shastry (2022) |
Website | BBC Young Dancer website |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | BBC Four and BBC Two |
Related | BBC Young Musician |
BBC Young Dancer is a televised national dance competition, broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Two between 2015 and 2022. The competition, inspired by the success of the biennal BBC Young Musician of the Year, was designed for British amateur dancers of ballet, contemporary, hip hop and South Asian dance, all of whom must be aged between 16 and 20. [1]
BBC Young Dancer was launched in October 2014 by Director-General of the BBC, Tony Hall and was part of BBC Four's Year of Song and Dance. Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta was the competition's ambassador. On 14 January 2015, ballet dancer and Strictly Come Dancing judge Darcey Bussell was announced as co-presenter and dance expert for the Grand Final of the inaugural competition, which was aired live from Sadler's Wells Theatre on BBC Two in May. Zoe Ball and Clemency Burton-Hill were her co-hosts. [2] There were different judges for each style. The category finals for each style were filmed at the Riverfront Arts Centre in Newport and later broadcast weekly on BBC Four. Contemporary dancer Connor Scott won the inaugural competition on 9 May 2015. [3] The grand final was judged by a panel of dance experts: Matthew Bourne, Mavin Khoo, Wayne McGregor, Tamara Rojo, Kenrick Sandy and Alistair Spalding. [4]
The next competition was held in 2017, contemporary dancer Nafisah Baba was announced as the winner of the overall title on 22 April. [5] The category finals were moved to The Lowry in Salford, however the grand final remained at Sadler's Wells Theatre. The televised grand final was hosted by Bussell, Anita Rani and Ore Oduba; it was judged by Kevin O'Hare, Jasmin Vardimon, Marc Brew, Kate Prince, Kenneth Tharp, and Nahid Siddiqui. [6]
The 2019 title, held on 18 May at Birmingham Hippodrome, was won by street dancer Max Revell. The judges this year were McGregor, Shobana Jeyasingh, Emma Gladstone, Christopher Hampson, Junior Bosila Banya and Chitra Sundaram. [7]
The competition returned in 2022 with a new format open to all dance styles; the category finals in Salford were replaced by in-person auditions held in front of a professional panel of judges in Shoreditch, London, with those successful in this round making it through to the final ten who attended a week-long dance residency at Dartington Hall in Devon. [8] Across the four-episode series, the finalists were put through their paces by leading choreographers to prepare new works for the grand final in London's Roundhouse where the winner was crowned. The grand final was judged by Prince, Arthur Pita, Subathra Subramaniam and Ryoichi Hirano.
The following have hosted stages of the competition: [9]
Year | Name | Category | Place of study or training | Winning age | Finals venue |
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2015 | Connor Scott | Contemporary | Dance City Centre, Gateshead College [10] | 17 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, London |
2017 | Nafisah Baba | Contemporary | Chrysalis, London [11] | 20 | |
2019 | Max Revell | Street Dance | Northern School of Contemporary Dance [12] | 20 | Birmingham Hippodrome |
2022 | Adhya Shastry | Bharatanatyam | National Youth Dance Company | 17 | Roundhouse, London |
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† | Person won the competition of that year |
Bold | Performer won the category final and a place to the grand final |
Italics | Performer was given a "wildcard" through to the grand final |
‡ | Performer was awarded one of two jury awards |
Name | Category |
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Anaya Bolar | South Asian |
Archie Sullivan | Ballet |
Connor Scott † | Contemporary |
Diana Patience | Contemporary |
Hamish Scott | Ballet |
Harry Barnes | Hip Hop |
Jacob O’Connell | Contemporary |
Jaina Modasia | South Asian |
Jenny Hackwell | Ballet |
Jodelle Douglas | Hip Hop |
Jonadette Carpio | Hip Hop |
Kai Tomioka | Contemporary |
Kasichana Okene-Jameson | Contemporary |
Kieran Lai | Hip Hop |
Lakshmi Ranjan | South Asian |
Paris Fitzpatrick | Ballet |
Sayaka Ishibashi | Ballet |
Sharifa Tonkmor | Hip Hop |
Sivani Balachandran | South Asian |
Vidya Patel | South Asian |
Name | Category |
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Harry Barnes | Street Dance |
Tom Hughes Lloyd | |
Jodelle Douglas | |
Kate Morris | |
Darren Hamilton | |
Ryan Felix | Ballet |
Jade Wallace | |
Rhys Antoni Yeomans | |
Uyu Hiromoto | |
Oscar Ward | |
Akshay Prakash | South Asian Dance |
Jaina Modasia | |
Anaya Bolar | |
Shyam Dattani | |
Anjelli Wignakumar | |
Nora Monsecour | Contemporary Dance |
Jacob Lang | |
John-William Watson | |
Nafisah Baba † | |
Joshua Attwood | |
Name | Category |
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Aishani Ghosh | South Asian Dance |
Hahika Gautam | |
Sundaresan Ramesh | |
Tulani Kayani-Skeef | |
Shree Savani | |
Max Cookward | Contemporary Dance |
Adanna Lawrence | |
Hannah Connor | |
Matthew Rawcliffe | |
Hana Kato | |
Chloe Keneally | Ballet |
Hollie Smith | |
Louis Fukuhara | |
Danila Marzilli | |
Keiko Tsuchiya | |
Thomas Carsley | Street Dance |
Louie Juster | |
Christian Griffin | |
Kate Morris | |
Max Revell † |
Name | Dance style |
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Adhya Shastry † | Bharatanatyam |
Anna Daly | Contemporary |
Elisabeth Mulenga ‡ | Contemporary |
Hannah Joseph | Contemporary |
Kai Scanlan | Tap |
Lauren Scott | Street |
Maiya Leeke | Contemporary |
Matthew Eudu | Street |
Olivia Chang-Clarke | Ballet |
Robert Dunkley-Gyimah ‡ | Contemporary |
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