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The Drury Lane dance studio in Hamilton will celebrate its 50th birthday on Nov 10 and 11 with a special show For the Love of Dance at the Clarence St Theatre.
The studio opened in 1968 with founder Aileen Downey still at the helm today, while her daughter Kerry Davis joined her in running the school in 1975.
The show will feature a dance performance from each year that the Drury Lane has produced, since the first show in 1968.
Drury Lane dancers first stepped before the public in a small church hall in Hamilton East, where a very small group of tap dancers, dressed in costume, gathered for afternoon tea to show their families and friends the dances they had learnt.