Tilly’s Ceroc Journey; Building Confidence Through Dance

In this heartfelt episode of the Ceroc Inspire Dance Inspiration Podcast, Liz and Mark chat with 17-year-old Tilly, who began her Ceroc journey at just 9 years old. From dancing with her mum for safeguarding to becoming a confident, freestyle-loving regular, Tilly shares how Ceroc helped her grow in confidence, communication, and community.

She opens up about being a young dancer in an adult setting, taking part in national competitions, and dancing with family across generations – including her grandad. Whether you're a parent considering Ceroc for your teen or a dancer curious about the younger generation joining the floor, this episode will both inform and inspire.

What You’ll Learn:

• How Ceroc supports young dancers safely
• Why Tilly kept her dancing life private at school
• The truth about dancing across generations
• How competitions build skill and confidence
• How Ceroc can help with personal development

Links and Mentions:

• Ceroc Inspire Classes: https://www.ceroc.com/67/11978/ceroc-inspire
• Follow us on Instagram: @ceroc_inspire
• Ceroc Derby and Ashbourne on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/CerocDerby
• https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565390853289
• Join our mailing list for updates and events (https://www.ceroc.com/23/86/join-our-mailing-list)

Have you or your child ever thought about trying Ceroc?
Come along to Ceroc Derby, Ashbourne or Burton – your first night is free if you mention this episode. Everyone is welcome from age 14 and up with an accompanying adult.

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Transcript

Speaker 0:

Hello, and welcome to Ceroc inspires dance inspiration podcast. I'm Liz.

Speaker 1:

And I'm Mark, and we're here keeping you up to date with everything that's going on into Ceroc inspire.

Speaker 0:

So let's get started. We feel so lucky today as we have a very special guest. Welcome, Matilda. Hello. Matilda is a regular dancer at Ceroc Inspire, and she started at a very young age.

Speaker 0:

Do you want to tell us about that, Tilly?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So I started at the age of 9 years old. First time I started, I went with my mum at, like, in the school holidays, summer holidays, whenever, and first time I went I was a bit nervous because all I knew that is that there were quite a few, like, older people there, and I knew that I was gonna be the only young people person there. So I found it quite nerve wracking that I was gonna be, like, the only person there.

Speaker 0:

I bet you did. Yeah. But you're with your mom.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. 100%. So 

Speaker 0:

how did that work out then? Who did you did you dance just with your mom or did you So

Speaker 2:

for classes, I had to dance with my mom as I didn't know anyone else there, and for safeguarding reasons, the owners there thought it was it was a good idea just to dance with my mum for classes.

Speaker 0:

I think that makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah. To introduce a young person to some of it, something like that when there's lots of other people around. Yeah. You've got that safety then of having a parent with you at at 9.

Speaker 0:

You know? 9. Wow, Tilly. Yeah. 9.

Speaker 0:

So how was your first night?

Speaker 2:

It was really good. Very late nights, I will say, especially for a 9 year old. Yeah. But it was really fun. I found it, as I said, quite nervous, but at the end of it, I was really excited to go to my next class night

Speaker 0:

Really?

Speaker 2:

And doing freestyles and all that.

Speaker 0:

Wow. So, normally, I mean, that was really lucky because, normally, our members are 14 upwards. So that was a franchisee that was willing to give you a go. Yeah. We would be willing to give the odd person a go at that age.

Speaker 0:

Obviously, not too many, but, yeah, I think that was great that they did that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Obviously, they knew my mom quite well as well. So it was they they kind of knew me as well from my mom speaking about me to them.

Speaker 0:

Yes. So what made you actually want to try it? Just was it just because your mom went?

Speaker 2:

So I wanted to try it because I used to do cheerleading back in school, and I really liked the thought of dancing. Yeah. So I asked my mum if I could go and she said yeah but there's quite a few like, things we need to go across like dance with other people and who you can and can't dance with Yeah. For safeguarding reasons and, who's, like, a safe person to go to if something does happen. And it just yeah.

Speaker 2:

It She

Speaker 0:

obviously prepared

Speaker 2:

you well, didn't she? Yeah. She did.

Speaker 0:

Because, Ceroc has a robust safeguarding policy Yeah. Which is why normally we wouldn't let such a young person start dancing. But even so, we still allow 14 year olds in as long as they're accompanied by an adult. Yeah. And, they obviously, they know people safeguarding leaders when they bring that young person, and they are responsible for them the whole night to keep an eye on the whole night.

Speaker 0:

So that obviously worked out really well for you. Yeah. Yeah. It's brilliant. And I

Speaker 2:

feel like I have a lot of people who do keep an eye on me Yeah. And who are always there if something did happen.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Which is unlikely.

Speaker 2:

But No. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

So how old are you now?

Speaker 2:

So I'm 17. Gonna be 18 soon.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Yeah. And you first came to Derby, I believe, when you were 14.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I was.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. I'm very shy.

Speaker 1:

Very

Speaker 2:

Yeah. A 100%.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. I didn't say much, did you, Tilly?

Speaker 2:

No. I didn't.

Speaker 0:

But you did love your dancing. Yeah. And your mom did a really good job of supervising you and making sure that you danced with her and Steve, who you came

Speaker 2:

in Yeah.

Speaker 0:

Is a very good friend of your family, isn't it? Yeah. And obviously Dan danced with you. Yeah. And I think you danced with her.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. I danced with her.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. I'm a taxi. So you have plenty of people to dance with. Yeah. And you seem to fit in pretty quickly.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I found a lot of people who I kind of connected with Yeah. Really quickly, and I made quite a few friends from it. Like, I speak to quite a few dancers, on messengers and all of that.

Speaker 0:

That's brilliant. So That's brilliant. Because you we don't have people as young as you on a regular basis. No. We do have sort of twenties, thirties, forties, and upwards, don't we?

Speaker 0:

But, you are being 1 of the youngest.

Speaker 2:

I think

Speaker 0:

Jordan came when he was 14, I believe, when he moved up to Derby. Yeah. So your first class

Speaker 2:

at Derby, how was it? It was really good. Everyone was really friendly when I first walked in. I've like, everyone kind of helped me know who everyone was and got me through my like the classes and where to go and everything and

Speaker 0:

that's brilliant so they really looked after you. Yeah. That's really good and Mark and I have sort of seen you grow over the

Speaker 2:

years Yeah.

Speaker 0:

That you've been coming to Derby from being a really quiet, shy young lady to being pretty confident out there now. I'm bubbly. I'm

Speaker 1:

Especially when it comes to the line dance.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Oh my goodness. Line dance queen, aren't you?

Speaker 2:

Line dancers are my best.

Speaker 0:

You are so happy to go and lead up for those, aren't you?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. You and your mom. Do it on my own. Don't care.

Speaker 0:

Do you? Well, it's fun, isn't it? It's different. We we try to incorporate that because people do seem to enjoy it. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

And Ceroc do do a new line dance every year. So it's

Speaker 2:

It's hard to get your head around it, but once you've once you've practiced it, it's really fun to do. Definitely. Definitely.

Speaker 1:

I used to get it every week with you when you came in.

Speaker 0:

I know.

Speaker 1:

What line dance are you doing this week? What line dance are we doing this week?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. When are

Speaker 1:

you playing it?

Speaker 0:

And, eventually, Dan started to say, let's just do 1 because we were doing a line dance workshop, and it wasn't getting filled. No. And so he started doing a line dance every every week, and it ended up being pretty busy. Yeah. And then the last, obviously, you went on the last step up workshop, because Nick ran it, but she did a line dance there, and it was actually it was, like, 20 of people.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. So I think the other thing she does is that she does it at Ashbourne as well. Oh, does she? Yeah. So, you know, before just before the intermediates class, same as at Derby

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

She will have a line dance of the month. They do the line dance, and they let they all learn that line dance and just follow her. It's not taught as such, but she just leads it.

Speaker 2:

That's really good.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They love it, and they all join in every week. Mhmm.

Speaker 0:

So yeah.

Speaker 2:

I think it's better when there's a like, someone's teaching it as well. Yeah. Because especially, like, when we're doing it, up there, people try and copy us Yeah. And try and work out how to do it. But half of the time, they do just walk away because they're like

Speaker 0:

I don't get it.

Speaker 2:

I can't understand how you're doing all of this and where the beats are in the music. Yeah. And it's like, I've been doing line dances since I was, like, 15. So each line dance that came out, I would start to sit with my mom in the living room. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And we we got it quite well.

Speaker 0:

So you could probably lead it quite easily now, couldn't you? Like I say, it's not, something that's part of a structured siroct night, but it is something that people do like to do. Yeah. We have introduced workshops for that. So

Speaker 2:

It's a fun thing to do.

Speaker 0:

Definitely. We're looking at doing, 2 lined up workshops next year because it just seemed to have have taken off, really. Been popular as well. Yeah. Very.

Speaker 0:

And, obviously, people, they they learn the the new line dance at the Swish weekender,

Speaker 2:

don't they? Yeah. Every weekender

Speaker 0:

does And they do it

Speaker 2:

every weekender.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. So what was it like then being, say, 14 and walking into a room full of adults that are older? Did you

Speaker 2:

does that bother you? It didn't bother me as such. I think walking in, I saw a few people who were who looked a lot younger than most of them, and they like, everyone looked very approachable

Speaker 0:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And easy to talk to, let's say. But it no. It didn't really bother me at such. It just kind of made me nervous about dancing with them just in case, like, they judged me about my age or anything. So it Yeah.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. There's always gonna be the odd person, I suppose, that feels that, it's inappropriate for them to dance with what they consider a child. Yeah. And I think that's just, you know, the world that we live in, they're protecting themselves.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. They don't wanna get judged by their friends about anything.

Speaker 0:

Exactly. I think, you know, we're very good at Derby and but never work keeping you safe. Yeah. You've never had an issue. No.

Speaker 0:

I have not. No. So I think, actually, we do that quite well, don't we? Yeah. Really.

Speaker 0:

So how has your dancing grown since you started? Tell us all about your journey.

Speaker 2:

So when I first started, I did the beginner refresh sessions for quite a few months Mhmm. Just to try and get my head around it because, obviously, I'm dyslexic and dyspraxic. So being dyspraxic, it obviously my feet I've got 2 left feet, let's say. Yeah. So it's very difficult to try and get my feet to go where my feet need to go.

Speaker 2:

So it's, yeah, it was quite difficult to get my head around where to go and what moves my lead is, like, doing Yeah. To me. I think

Speaker 0:

the 1 thing about what people may not understand with dyspraxia is a coordination disorder. Yeah. And to have a coordination disorder like that and still be able to dance is a massive challenge. Just wanted to put that out there.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. It is. And then after I did that, after I was doing that for a couple of months, yeah, I then went into intermediate classes, learning all of that. I half of time, I would stick with my mom, as she was learning to lead. So she helped me understand the moves and where to go Yeah.

Speaker 2:

In that. And now I'm going into competitions and trying trying to go to different places to dance with different people who are at different levels than what I am to try and make me get better at dancing.

Speaker 0:

So that's a real sound way to do it, I think, too, isn't it? Yeah. So how many competitions have you actually competed in?

Speaker 2:

So I've competed in, I think, 3. Yeah 3 and they were all at Blackpool.

Speaker 0:

Tell us about those then. Let's see.

Speaker 2:

So my first competition I did, I was roughly around, I wanna say I was 15, I would say. So and I was very nervous. I had 3 competitions I think I was doing and I had partners who I knew very well. And I've been dancing with them for a few years, I would say. So I was very confident about that, but walking into the room, it it was very busy, and there was a lot of what I would call professional dancers there.

Speaker 2:

And it kind of made me feel really nervous about Okay. Doing the competitions. Yeah. I

Speaker 0:

imagine that.

Speaker 2:

But, obviously, getting onto the dance floor and actually competing, it was a lot better because I was just focused on my dance partner and dancing with Sam. But

Speaker 0:

Well, we were there that time when you did that first 1, and Yeah. We watched it, didn't we?

Speaker 1:

We did. We did.

Speaker 0:

And thought, you know, you did really well. You looked really good that there

Speaker 2:

Yeah. On the

Speaker 0:

dance floor. And you you you did show a lot of confidence in yourself.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. What happened? So I didn't win any medals or anything, and I did get quite upset about it. Yeah. But in my head, I knew that I did my best, and I showed my confidence a lot more, and it built a lot more confidence in my head as well.

Speaker 0:

I think so. And I think at the time, we tried to convince you, didn't we? Well, the the truth is that to take part is massive

Speaker 2:

Yeah. At 15 in a

Speaker 0:

massive competition in Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

You know, never having competed before to actually have competed in 3 different categories.

Speaker 2:

100%. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

You know? And you did get through a few, didn't you? I did. Yeah. But you did move forward.

Speaker 1:

You got further than me. Yeah. Because I can remember I did it because I did it last minute.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. You

Speaker 1:

did. And I decided, oh, yeah. The short

Speaker 2:

on

Speaker 1:

leads, I'll do it. Yeah. And I can remember the feeling when I got through the

Speaker 2:

first round, I was like, what?

Speaker 1:

Yeah. Really? It's done on the second round, and it was like, bye. And I was like, oh, okay. But it was that part of competing

Speaker 2:

that

Speaker 1:

actually made you think, oh, I've actually done it.

Speaker 2:

It builds you dancing a lot more, I think, as well. It makes you feel like you're better dancing from what you think as well. Yeah. I feel like the first night, you feel like you're, like, not a very good dancer, and, like, you it's, like, a really bad idea of competing an author. But then you do compete, and it's the best idea that you thought of, and you've built your confidence a lot more.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. And you feel very proud of yourself as well for getting up there than doing it.

Speaker 0:

And we were so proud of you for trying. Yeah. So so proud of you. You had a big cheerleading side, didn't you? Yeah.

Speaker 0:

And we came home really proud of you that you've done that because Yeah. It moved you forward despite your upset. Yeah. You know, you could take it. You were upset at the time, but you dusted yourself off, got back up there, and returned the following year.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. What happened then?

Speaker 2:

So competed 3 times again with some of them were different dance partners, and I got through quite a few rounds in my competitions. And I felt a lot more prepared this time about how I was going to feel, how the dance space was, how many people were going to be there, and I felt a lot better about competing.

Speaker 0:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I was still quite nervous about it because obviously dancing in front of hundreds of people everyone's watching you or at least you feel like everyone's watching you and but all you have to remember is just look at your dance partner, and it's just you 2 in the room.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Absolutely. That's the way to do it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

And then you went was it back to pool again? You went back to Yeah. How did that 1 go?

Speaker 2:

So that 1 went really well. Got through quite a few rounds. I did 4 competitions this year. Some of them I did better than others, and it was, yeah, it was really good. And I got a new dance partner from it who hopefully will be competing with in the future as well.

Speaker 0:

Oh, brilliant. Brilliant. So you left didn't leave their empty 100 then? No. You left there with a new dance partner.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Absolutely brilliant, Tilly. And, I mean, you're 17 years old. This is just the start, isn't it? It is.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. So you you work really hard on your your dancing. We see you on the dance floor at Derby, like, proper going through all your moves. Yeah. Especially confident with Steven, aren't you?

Speaker 2:

I am. Yeah. Steve is kind of like I class as, like, my stepdad, and he's not my stepdad at all. He's just the loveliest guy ever. He cares for me so much as well.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. And I feel like he's, like, 1 of, like, the bestest friends I could have made there as well.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. So how how great is that? Mhmm. You come out with not only a friend, but a very, very close friend who feels almost like family.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

And that's given you that confidence to to keep on going, hasn't it? Yeah. Obviously, your mom's very supportive of you Yeah. She is. Competitions and watching you and cheering you on.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. She always cheers me on, and she's really proud of how far I've come as well. Yeah. Especially with, like, competitions and how when I first started at 9 years old and where I am now it's it's a massive leap, let's say, and I've grown so much in my confidence and everything.

Speaker 0:

You really have because you also, demoed for tour at a couple of our workshops.

Speaker 2:

I did. Yeah. How did that go? So they went really well. Did not know at all what I was signing up for.

Speaker 2:

I just dropped that 1 on you, didn't I?

Speaker 0:

Sorry about that.

Speaker 2:

But it was it was really good. It taught me a lot about moves and a different way of doing them as well wow yeah and it just yeah it taught me a lot in my communication and empathy and everything.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. You you really have come on as a dancer and a person. I think, you know, you've you've grown massively in confidence, and and your communication skills are way different to what they used to be. So would you say that that's down to dance or more things?

Speaker 2:

I would say it's down to dancing, to be fair. I feel like dancing's brought a lot out of me Yeah. In a positive way. Yeah. Because, obviously, like, before dancing, I was a very shy person.

Speaker 2:

I I wouldn't really speak to a lot of people, especially in school. I usually just had, like I had 1 best friend, and that was it. I did not want to make any more friends, and I feel like dancing brought me a lot more friends, and it built my confidence up a lot more. And I was I felt a lot more comfortable speaking to, new people.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Definitely. I've I've seen a massive difference in you. And, obviously, you also come to social events, don't you? We're walking to our picnic.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

You come to Freestyles, and you are a well known part of our dance community

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

At Rock Inspire. I think you are elsewhere as well at the Yeah. Venues that you go to. So how do you feel as a a young dancer, like, dancing with people that are older than you? Are you okay with that?

Speaker 0:

You're good with that?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I'm okay with it. I don't find it weird at all. Yeah. And I know a few people my age would feel a bit creeped out about about it.

Speaker 2:

Let's say, like, why are you dancing with, like, a 50 year old guy?

Speaker 0:

But can

Speaker 2:

I just say, Tilly,

Speaker 0:

50 is not old? No.

Speaker 2:

I know. No. It's not old at all, but people my age would think it's old and Get it. It would be that it's not Not right. Right, let's say.

Speaker 2:

But in my head, I feel like it's and all that. Like, it's Yeah. It's not like I'm like, nothing's gonna happen between No. That. It's just dancing and Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Making friends and It's a dance connection. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

Not not any other kind of connection.

Speaker 2:

No. It's really

Speaker 0:

don't see it as a problem.

Speaker 1:

I can see it as a as a 50 year old man. This old man here.

Speaker 2:

Old man.

Speaker 1:

How different it is when you actually dance with a younger person.

Speaker 0:

Mhmm.

Speaker 1:

As the 50 year old man, you you are sort of, like, conscious that they are younger.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And you want to just try. And to be honest, you don't look.

Speaker 0:

No.

Speaker 1:

You try and look through them and carry on dancing. Yeah. Because the way society is at the moment, you're conscious of what the consequences could be. Yeah. But I've danced with you plenty of times.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. Yeah. And we have a right laugh.

Speaker 2:

We do.

Speaker 1:

And to be honest, I don't even think about that when we're dancing. But I can see it from that sort of point of view.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Why older guys don't ask younger women to dance.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Yeah. But I think, you know, for us as as follows, I know you do some media as well, Tilly, but I think that the eye connection between you and your dance partner is really important part of the of the dance because you can almost by watching it, you can almost see where they're going.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. You know what they're gonna do. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

When people feel embarrassed about looking at you in the eyes because maybe you're a lot younger, that probably takes away the joy of that particular dance. It's a shame because they those dancers are very experienced, brilliant dancers. They are. There are some great dancers at Ceroc Derby and and Ashbourne. And, I think, you know, it would spoil it if people felt uncomfortable.

Speaker 0:

So I think you saying that, hopefully, you might get some of those more experienced dancers asking you to dance now because they can share Yeah. Their skill with you and help bring you on to be, you know, a a more senior dancer later down the line. Hopefully, you bring your kids.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely.

Speaker 0:

So you said that earlier on when we were chatting before we started reporting that you didn't tell your school friends they didn't really know about your dancing. Why was that? So

Speaker 2:

I didn't really say to them because, 1, I don't really make a lot of friends at school, so I don't have a lot of friends to tell. But the people who I were friends with, I didn't wanna say anything because I didn't know if they would take it the wrong way and make it and, like, me make it sound like I'm dancing with pervy old men, let's say. And it's

Speaker 0:

We don't have pervy old

Speaker 2:

men. No. We really don't. No. But it's like in younger people's head, they would maybe find it a bit weird.

Speaker 2:

And

Speaker 0:

No. I totally get what you're saying. I totally it's like it's dancing with your granddad.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. I totally get that when you're a kid. And once you become an adult, you'll see that that actually everybody's just the same, and we all age and we all get there. But when you're younger, I know you do have I used to think 40 was ancient. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

And then I hit 40, and I was like, oh. That old? I don't feel old. No. I'm not old at all.

Speaker 0:

But, if we wanted to encourage younger people, maybe sort of your age now to come dancing, what would you say to them?

Speaker 2:

I would say that it's not as scary as what it looks on the videos. It's a very friendly, community. And maybe on your first night, it's gonna look a lot scarier Yeah. Than what it is, but after you've gone your first night you're gonna want to come back for more and you're gonna want to keep go like keep going to that class and building your, dance life off. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And

Speaker 0:

Because if you look on the videos that you see on the competitions, it's a lot of young people that have achieved It is. You know, great skill. Yeah. You watch some of them dancing, you're like, wow. How do they ever get like that?

Speaker 0:

It's because they've been practicing and they've been dancing in local venues with the experienced dancers no matter what their age is, and they've managed to develop their skills. Yeah. And those experienced dancers then are cheering you on. Yeah. They are.

Speaker 0:

Sometimes, you know, somebody that I know you're not aspiring to be a teacher, but, you know, if you did fancy down the line being a teacher. I mean, Nick, when she joined us, she she's obviously not as young as you, but she just came and just loved dancing. Yeah. And she's grown and grown and grown, and now she's a great teacher. Yeah.

Speaker 0:

You know, Daniel had only been to about 8 months before he went to do his teacher training.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

But it's now a massive part of his life. So I think, you know, dancing with anybody can totally build your confidence and support you.

Speaker 2:

And changes, spec what's the word? Perspective on dancing and how it isn't all about getting, like, with dancing and all of that.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. It's not about competing. It's about No. Fun.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. It's about making friends and doing

Speaker 0:

Part of a community.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Doing something that you love as well.

Speaker 0:

Yeah. Yeah. And sharing it with others and enjoying music because, obviously, your love of music tends to grow the more that you dance because you love certain tracks and so Yeah. You become more involved in the music side of it. So, I think that's another thing that we need to to touch on in a way.

Speaker 0:

You you know, it gives

Speaker 2:

you an opportunity to enjoy music. It does. Yeah. I found a lot more tracks from dancing as well that I love, and I keep it on my Spotify playlist a lot, and I play them whenever I'm in the mood to listen to music and have a bit of a dance and all of that. Dance on your own?

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 0:

Thank you. So you've

Speaker 2:

got a little niece. Would you encourage her to dance? Yeah. So she does dance classes for different, franchise and all of that. But when we take her to Blackpool for competitions, she's always on the sideline dancing with, like, part of, like, their team and with people we know and all of that.

Speaker 2:

And she really enjoys it, and she always says that she wants to do it when she's older as well.

Speaker 0:

So that's brilliant. You dance family, really, aren't you? Yeah. We really are.

Speaker 2:

We all dance.

Speaker 0:

Speaking about your granddad, I want we coming along.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. My granddad dances, every week. Does a few freestyles, and he yeah. He's going he's doing really well.

Speaker 0:

He does all of our workshops as well, hasn't he? Yeah. He does. He's very supportive when he comes, so it's a whole family thing to Lee.

Speaker 2:

It is. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 0:

Is there anything else that you wanted to tell us about your experience?

Speaker 2:

I feel like going back to your first eye, don't be scared, and try and enjoy it as best as you can. Yeah. Because you never know. From by the end of the night, you're gonna you might love it or you might not, and it doesn't matter either way. Because either way, you've done something that you wanted to do at the start of the night, and you may have made new friends and built like a connection from somewhere and it's it does make you feel a lot better at the end of the night.

Speaker 0:

Yeah Brilliant. Thank you so much, Tilly. It's an absolute pleasure having you on.

Speaker 1:

It certainly has.

Speaker 0:

We'll see you on the dance floor soon.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. See you soon.

Speaker 0:

Thanks so much for joining us on today's Ceroc inspires dance inspiration podcast.

Speaker 1:

We hope you've enjoyed the chat as much as we have.

Speaker 0:

And you know that you can find us at Ceroc Derby, Ashbourne, and Burton, or online at Ceroc dot com forward slash Ceroc inspire.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 0:

We'll be back very soon with more stories, insights, and inspiration, and some special guests.

Speaker 1:

See you on the dance floor.