TOES will be tapping and ballerinas floating when the Weymouth Dance Studio takes to the stage at Weymouth Pavilion for their biannual show, 5,6,7,8.

The show consists of a variety of dance styles including tap, ballet, modern, street, contemporary, national and song and dance where the dancers demonstrate their performance skills and progress from their initial training.

June Hornby, who runs the studio, said: “This year we have three extra dance teachers – sisters Michaela and Keely Shaw and Lesann Barber, all previous students of mine – choreographing innovative dance pieces of varying genres from Wicked to Pulp Fiction and Charleston Ballet to Tap dancing with skipping ropes.

“The students have been working hard to put on an entertaining performance.”

The dance school is in Derby Street and takes students from as young as two and a half and several of the alumni have gone on to illustrious dance careers.

Two of Miss Hornby’s current dancers are in the Junior Associates Programme for the Royal Ballet School and student Thomas Gerhardt will miss the Friday performance as he will be dancing in Sleeping Beauty on the Royal Opera House stage in Covent Garden.

Previous students have excelled since their initial training at Weymouth Dance studio. Many are currently starring in West End shows including Legally Blonde, Wicked and Singing In The Rain, where others are performing in New York or choreographing and performing for the English National Ballet’s collaboration with Britain’s Got Talent runners-up Flawless.

The show 5,6,7,8 at Weymouth Pavilion is on Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, at 7pm.

Tickets are £10, available from June Hornby on 01305 775682.