As they drove home, Nina couldn't stop thinking about how exciting it will be to dance on the Town Hall's huge stage (she remembered it because she had been to see a pantomime there last year). There would be lights and loud music and costumes and an audience to clap and cheer.

Nina couldn't wait to tell her friends at school the next day, she knew they would be so jealous. Many of them went to other dancing schools in the area but none had been in a show yet.

That afternoon, as Mrs Briggs was teaching, Nina found herself day dreaming and staring out the window. She remembered this was just how excited she had been when her parents had bought her a leotard for her birthday and had said she could go to dance lessons. She couldn't believe that although she had been learning for less than a year she was going to dance in the show.

At her next dance lesson Miss Hunt spoke to Nina and the class.

"As you all know, the school show is not far away at all, so we had better get started on a dance for you to perform. I think your family and friends might get a little bit bored seeing you do your exercises on stage!"

So they set to work and Miss Hunt began to teach them the dance they would perform. Nina was determined to practise it really hard and make her parents proud of her.