HIGH-energy dancers entertained friends, family and charity supporters by strutting their stuff after just two months’ of instruction.

Nine competitors took to the floor at the finale of the Strictly Swing Dance event, held at the Village Hall in Bushey on Saturday, raising money for St Luke’s Hospice in Kenton Grange, Kenton.

Mike Amin, of the Swingsters dance teachers who put the participants through their paces, said: “They all had a different style and all of them had period costumes according to their routine. One couple danced 20s Charleston, one the Lindy Hop, one the Jitterbug, one the Balboa, another swing style, and we had another couple doing the jive and one doing rock ‘n’ roll dancing.

“They were absolutely amazing and put a lot of work into it. There was a lot of good-natured competition between the couples because they were trying to raise as much money as possible for the hospice.”

The top two couples, based on the three judges’ and audience’s votes, took part in a dance off and Craig Binch and Noreen Galvin, from Stanmore, took home the trophy for their jitterbug performance. They both work at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore.

Swingsters member Michael Kaye and Nikki Middlemass, from Harrow, who danced rock ‘n’ roll to Greased Lightning from the film Grease, came a close second.

Nikki also did a skydive last year for St Luke’s in memory of both her parents who she said were so well looked after at the hospice.

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