Do you care to dance...?
Posted on: 14 Nov 2013St Peters Hospice in Bristol is asking residents of the city if they would care to dance in their own version of popular TV show 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The charity is asking for people hoping to follow in the dance-steps of Emma Bunton, Edwina Currie, Harry Judd, Robbie Savage or even Russel Grant to sign up and help raise money for a worthy cause.
Willing couples will then be given professional dance training, which they will receive free following a £30 registration fee, after which they will perform before the public in a Bristol Strictly Come Dancing Grand Finale at the Bierkeller Theatre next March. The couples will be competing for audience votes at the event which is to be hosted by BBC Points West's Jemma Cooper and Ian Downs from radio station Jack FM.
The hospice has also recruited beauty students from the City of Bristol College who will ensure all the competitors look their best by providing full hair, make-up, spray tans and manicures to the dancers on the evening of the final.
Following registration the couples will enjoy eight weeks of dance classes from professional dance teacher Michele Webber at Dance Factory Bristol where they will be taught two complete routines.
There will only be space in the competition for twelve couples and applications need to be submitted before this Sunday 17 November. Couples will then be invited to meet St Peters Hospice events fund-raiser Maria del Carmen Moon Park the following Sunday where they will be able to discuss the dances they wish to perform. Classes will be held on Saturday mornings at Gloucester Road in Bishopston and start on January 4.
St Peter's is Bristols only adult hospice and provides care and support to more than two-and-a-half thousand patients a year. It has been operating for thirty five years and over three quarters of it's funding is raised via public donations, it's shops and other fund-raising initiatives.
For more information on how to enrol or the competition itself can be found here.