Dancing feet must be in the family.

Running in the family - three generations of dancers

For as 20-year-old Carrie Banks steps into her first professional job as a dancer, she is following in the footsteps of her mother and her grandmother.

Three generations of her family have now waltzed their way through life and her grandmother Shirley Smith, who is in her 60s, is still a tap dancer.

Carrie is leaving her home in Mill Street, St Osyth, for a four-month dancing contract at Disneyland Paris.

She will be waving farewell to her mum Linda Jennings, of High Street, Thorpe. She learnt to dance at Clacton's Elise School of Dancing and then became a teacher there for five years.

Her mum Shirley Smith, of Westridge, Clacton, still attends regular lessons and appears in the annual Jacquline Annis School of Dance show.

Published Thursday, September 9, 2004

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