Hype qualify for World Dance Championships

Hype Dance Company entered three groups into the UDO Southern Street Dance Championships in Reading and all of them got through to the international event which will be held in Blackpool on August 1-3.The youngest group of children, aged between five and 10 years old, will not attend, instead they will be staying in Bristol to perform at the Harbour Festival.

All the groups, which rehearse at the Easton Leisure Centre and Trinity Arts Centre, will be performing in the Galleries in Broadmead on July 19 and at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta from August 7-10.

The dancers have had success before - the senior group, aged between 16 and 25, has won at London's Notting Hill Carnival for two years running.