About Julie Tucker

Julie started dancing at the very young age of two and a half years old.  She had gone along to a children's class with her sister (Suzanne age six) and their cousin but the teacher was very strict and would not let Julie join in until she was three,  however she was allowed to watch.  Julie did watch and apart from copying the older children, she was so well behaved the teacher let her join in.  At 3 years old Julie achieved Honours in her first medal, Bronze Waltz; she went on to finish all her I.S.T.D Juvenile medals taking the Alex Moore Award when she was only ten.  During this time she often made the finals in Medal Competitions at the Hammersmith Palais.

As a Juvenile from about the age of 9 years old, Julie started to do Open Competitions with her partner. They travelled all over the country, competing most weekends, and practising hard during the week.  The practice paid off as in one year they won 56 trophies.  (A lot of silver to be cleaned). As Juveniles, they became 1^st in England and 2^nd in the world at the main event held every year in October at the Royal Albert Hall London. At this time Julie still only 10 years old and her partner was 11. They continued into the Junior section and carried on their success, often winning the Under 14 yrs section.

When Julie was 14 years old a new partnership began and together over the next few months they won many titles becoming UK Junior 10 dance champions and again in October at the Royal Albert Hall they were placed 2^nd in England and 3^rd in the World for Ballroom. Julie and her partner competed in France representing England and won the Ballroom 5 dance and the Latin American 5 dance championship.  Not long after that, Julie and her partner were invited to dance for England in the team match against Denmark, which Julie says was a great honour and everyone was delighted when England won.

At 16 Julie felt she wanted to stop travelling to competitions, and in time she started to help her sister Suzanne with adult and children classes. Julie went on to take her Student Teachers exam and it was not long before she was back in competitions.  The sisters wanted to enter the All Ladies Professional Competitions and were often placed within the top three. In between getting married and having family of her own, Julie went on to take her Associate Teachers exam and eventually found time to take her Licentiate Teachers exam.  Julie said she could not have done all this without the support of her husband and wanted to thank him for this.  Julie's future plans are to obviously help build up her dancing school, keep taking more examinations and to judge competitions.

Any questions? For more information or to book a class, give us a call: 07718 208 897 for Julie 07733 107 442 for Suzanne