Dancer Cartwheels Her Way to Paris

A young dancer has been going head over heels to raise funds in a bid to perform at Disneyland Paris.

Isabella King, seven, has been training at HW Dance based at Victoria Hall in Tring for two years. The dance school has been invited by its sister school APPAS (Adele Peters Performing Arts School) to join them in performing at Disneyland Paris next year.

Her place on the trip will cost £649, and in a bid to fundraise, Isabella, who has just left Goldfield School and will start at Bishop Wood School this September, came up with the idea of being sponsored to do continuous cartwheels.

Her Mum, Emma King, told Tring Living: ‘Izzy did 445 cartwheels in 30 minutes starting from Goldfield Road, all the way down the High Street, around the Memorial Gardens and back up to the library.’

After her initial success, Isabella has plans to complete 600 cartwheels in 30 minutes. Other fundraising plans include a sweet cone stall and car washing. Super-fit Izzy also wants to see how many burpies (a squat, plank, and jump in one fluid movement) she can do in 10 mins.

Emma is very proud of her daughter. She told us: ‘I asked Izzy what she wanted to do to fundraise for Disney and she said cartwheels as she is always doing them, or dancing or is just generally upside down! We decided 30 minutes was a long enough time, thinking she would only get 100. You can imagine my surprise when we got to 200 then 300 and finished at 445. I was so proud of her.

‘She is a very determined little girl. She loves dance and cheer, and since joining HW Dance two years ago has grown in confidence. She is inspired by some of the older girls that do dance and cheer as well as the girls from APPAS. Her words – I want to dance like them one day.’

Her GoFundMe page is at www.gofundme.com/f/help-izzy-perform-onstage-at-disney.