Awards & Achievements

COMPANY AND PRINCIPAL MENTIONS

Sonia Bond adjudicated The Joan Darwall Award for the CGDAF at ISTD (1994-2003)

Co-Principal, Sonia Bond, was selected to adjudicate at The ‘All England’ Dance Festival Finals at Sadlers Wells & Peacock Theatre  (1995-2017). Also invited to present the Classical Greek Award at the Gala on several occasions

Our co-principal Mrs. Bond was a recipient of the prestigious Daphne Hawkesworth Award for services to the CGDA Faculty, at the Ruby Ginner Awards (2000)

BHW Dance West-End Performances: (1998-99) 2 Performances at the Haymarket Theatre with ‘Stars in our Eyes’

Organiser (Sonia Bond) of Presentation of Classical Greek Dance at the Royal Albert Hall in the Physical Education Millennium Spectacular (October 1999)

Performance at the Sadlers Wells Theatre with ‘Stars in our Eyes’ (April 2000)

BHW Dance invited to Perform at the Bloomsbury Theatre in the Classical Greek Dance Millennium Celebration (July 2000)

Teachers, Lucy Pohl, Juliet Locks & Sonia Bond invited to choreograph & produce for National Youth Ballet’s ‘Fairytale’. Performances at Croydon Theatre & Sadlers Wells too (October 2000)

Choreographic competition at Tring Park’s Summer School (Christ’s Hospital School) adjudicated by Sonia Bond in 2002

All England Finals (Classical Greek Heats & Finals), at the Mermaid Theatre (2005)

35 pupils performed at Queen’s Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue (2006)

Across the country, our co-principal was invited to adjudicate at the prestigious CGD Festival National Heats (3/4 of them!) (2007)

3 of our numbers/groups qualified for the Classical Greek Dance Festival Finals at the Mermaid Theatre (2007)

Awarded ‘Most Memorable Performance of the Day’ (The Rosina Wenham Shield) at the 2007 National Finals (CGD – ISTD)

BHW Dance won 3 Awards at the Finals of the National CGDF for ‘Majestic Beauty of the Cosmos’ (2015)

All England Finals (adjudicated by Mrs. Bond) at Hackney Empire Theatre (2015)

Dance World Cup in Jersey – judged by SJB (2016)

All England Finals (again, invited to adjudicate: Sonia Bond) (2017)

SONIA BOND BEM (2018). Sonia, principal of BHW dance received her British Empire Medal in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List from H.M Lord Lieutenant of Essex for her services to Dance and Charity work. She attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in June