Charlie Bruce
{{Short description|British dancer}}
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| birth_name = Charlotte Bruce
| birth_date = 1990
| birth_place = Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
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| occupation = Dancer
| known_for = Winning the UK version of So You Think You Can Dance
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Charlotte "Charlie" Bruce is a British jazz dancer from Cropston, Leicestershire, who won the first UK series of So You Think You Can Dance in February 2010. She trained in dance at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts (previously the Arts Educational School Tring) and both dance and musical theatre at Laine Theatre Arts, a performing arts college in Epsom, Surrey. She was the youngest contestant in SYTYCD.
Biography
Born in Melton Mowbray and raised in Cropston, north of Leicester, Bruce began dancing at the age of three, taking lessons from the age of seven at the Charnwood Dance School, and receiving a scholarship to attend the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire, between the ages of ten and sixteen."[https://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/tv/soyouthinkyoucandance/contestants2/charlie/index.shtml Charlie Bruce] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130419201356/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/tv/soyouthinkyoucandance/contestants2/charlie/index.shtml |date=19 April 2013 }}", BBC, retrieved 5 December 2010 She later studied at the Laine Theatre Arts school in Epsom.
She began dating British Gold Medallist Gymnast Louis Smith in November 2017, in September 2020 it was confirmed that she was pregnant and in a gender reveal video on social media they discovered they were in fact expecting a baby girl, Charlie revealed that she was due in late February 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFVnOOHpje/?igshid=1ozhwymg2v3n8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/charliebruce1990/2397417430950254814_2397416833329101163 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |url-access=registration|title = Login • Instagram}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFWrRPHfrO/?igshid=15nlivmmwq13j |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/louissmith1989/2397422107112635086 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |url-access=registration|title = Login • Instagram}}{{cbignore}}
Career
=2010: SYTYCD=
When Charlie was 19 years old, while working as a sales assistant in a shoe shop, she attended an audition for So You Think You Can Dance. She got through to the top 100, and then to the televised stages as one of the top 14. She has said on numerous occasions that she wanted to be seen as more than a 19-year-old girl dancing, and at the end of the final all of the judges thought that she had accomplished that. She won the contest, receiving £100,000 prize money.Jefferies, Mark (2010) "[https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/02/15/charlie-tv-win-rescued-my-dream-115875-22043543/ Charlie Bruce: So You Think You Can Dance win rescued my dream – Exclusive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103063322/http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/02/15/charlie-tv-win-rescued-my-dream-115875-22043543/ |date=3 January 2012 }}", Daily Mirror, 15 February 2010, retrieved 5 December 2010
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!Partner(s) !Style !Music !Choreographer(s) !Results"[https://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/soyouthinkyoucandance/aps/charlie_bruce.shtml So You Think You Can Dance: Charlie Bruce] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204020608/https://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/soyouthinkyoucandance/aps/charlie_bruce.shtml |date=4 February 2019 }}", BBC, retrieved 6 December 2010 |
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| 1
|rowspan="2"|Tommy Franzén |"The Way I Are"—Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E |Simeon Qsyea |Safe |
| 2
|Frank Gatson |Safe |
| rowspan="2"|3
|— |Solo (Jazz) |— |rowspan="2"|Safe |
| Robbie White |
| rowspan="2"|4
|Drew McOnie |Lyrical Hip-Hop |"Doesn't Mean Anything"—Alicia Keys |rowspan="2"|Bottom 4 |
| —
|Solo (Contemporary) |"Apologize"—Timbaland feat. OneRepublic |— |
| rowspan="3"|5
|rowspan="2"|Tommy Franzén |Jazz |Sean Cheesman |rowspan="3"|Safe |
| Quickstep
|"Do Your Thing"—Basement Jaxx |
| —
|Solo (Latin Jazz) |"Conga"—Gloria Estefan |— |
| rowspan="4"|6
|Lizzie Gough |Broadway |"All That Jazz"—Catherine Zeta-Jones |rowspan="4"|Winner |
| Tommy Franzén
|"Tango el Roxanne"—Ewan McGregor |
| Drew McOnie
|"I Surrender"—Céline Dion |
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|Solo (Jazz) |"Livin' la Vida Loca"—Ricky Martin |— |
=After ''So You Think You Can Dance''=
In July 2010, Bruce began working as understudy for the lead role of Baby Houseman in the West End production of Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre, making her debut performance in the role that month.Jones, Becky (2010) "[http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Having-time-life/article-2471407-detail/article.html Charlie Bruce is having the time of her life – she tells Becky Jones all about it] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803030042/http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Having-time-life/article-2471407-detail/article.html |date=3 August 2010 }}", Leicester Mercury, 28 July 2010, retrieved 5 December 2010"[http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/vicky_hoyles_and_charlie_bruce_bag_leading_roles_1_675796 Vicky Hoyles and Charlie Bruce bag leading roles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002131043/http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/vicky_hoyles_and_charlie_bruce_bag_leading_roles_1_675796 |date=2 October 2010 }}", Melton Times, 2 June 2010, retrieved 5 December 2010 On 12 August 2010, she performed on the series finale of FOX's So You Think You Can Dance in the United States.
Second World Dance championship
In May 2010, Bruce represented the United Kingdom in the Second Dance World Championship in Mexico, where she was partnered by Benjamin Jones."[http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=508187 Eliminan equipo de Colombia en “Segundo Campeonato Mundial de Baile”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306023655/http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=508187 |date=6 March 2012 }}", La Crónica de Hoy, 24 May 2010, retrieved 6 December 2010 She withdrew from the competition in Week 3 (31 May) due to an injury. Her replacement was Lizzie Gough. However, team England was eliminated from the competition in Week 4 (6 June).
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|3800663|Charlie Bruce}}
{{So You Think You Can Dance (UK)}}
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Category:British female dancers
Category:So You Think You Can Dance winners
Category:People from Melton Mowbray
Category:People educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts