Phil's Dance Partners
Leah Pritchard, Member of World Salsa Federation
Leah became an Associate of the United Kingdom Alliance (UKA) of Professional Teachers of Dancing in July 2007 and is a fully qualified dance teacher. Leah is my niece and has only been dancing Salsa since 2004, but within the first year, due to her unique but natural dance style, she became my dance partner. She learns new moves extremely quickly and easily brings in her own style to the moves, which makes her dancing very attractive to watch. In 2005, we won the Midlands Salsa Championship, held in Birmingham, which qualified us for the UK Salsa Open Champion 2005, held in Bognor Regis, coming 6th. Leah also went to Aruba where we came 1st in a pre World Championship Competition.
As well as entering competitions, Leah is my partner for shows, performances and demonstrations, which we are invited to present all over the UK and abroad!
Andrea Hulme
1st Place UKA Medallist, 2006 (Gold and above 25 and over)
I met Andrea in 2004. We started dancing together after she came to both my private Salsa Lessons and Salsa Classes in Mamma’s Too in St Anne’s and Bello’s in Preston. Andrea is extremely keen on learning new moves and is a very fast learner, with natural rhythm and styling. She had danced for many years before Salsa, which helped her progress so fast in Salsa. In 2005, Andrea became my support teacher and was also my partner for demonstrations, which we were invited to present all over the country. Andrea is a great dancer and works very hard on new moves and presentation.
Kasia Mierzejewska In 2002, Kasia started Salsa lessons at Dancers, where I met her. She then became one of my students and due to her dancing talent progressed to support teacher in 2004. In 2005, at Blackpool, Kasia won the medallist of the year (gold and above) and became my partner, as Geraldine’s substitute, in the World Championships. These were held in Aruba, and we became 14th World IDO Salsa Champion 2005.
Geraldine Ling
Phil & Leah, met Geraldine in 1997 at the same classes as Jackie, so we had danced together before we became partners for the UKA IDO Salsa Championships 2005, held in Blackpool, where we came 4th. This was the qualifying championships to represent the UK in the World IDO Salsa Champion, held in Aruba. Geraldine is an excellent dancer, well known for her ladies styling. Her website can be found here: www.salsalicious.co.uk
Jenni Griffiths
I met Jenny at Lancaster Salsa classes. We started dancing together after she came to my private Salsa Lessons and she then became my support teacher at Mamma’s Too in St Anne’s and Next Generation Club in Chorley. Jenny is a very talented dancer and teacher. In 2003 Jenny and I qualified, in Manchester for the British National Salsa Championship. Along with Jenny and her Mother, we produced a beginners and an improvers salsa teaching video.
Jaqueline Moss
My first dance partner. I met Jackie in 1997, when I first started salsa, at Jim and Heather’s Salsa classes at Chorley. I was a bit nervous to ask Jackie to dance because she was already a really good salsa dancer, with a long history of dancing. However, we danced really well together and we became dancing partners.
In 2002 we became Joint 2nd British National Salsa Champion and 3rd British Merengue Champion, held in Blackpool. The next year, in 2003, we became North West Salsa Champion, held in Manchester and 4th British Salsa Champion, held in London.
