Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova are best known for their show-stopping moves as professional dancers on hit BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing. 

Darren and Lilia are now offering clients the unique opportunity to incorporate teambuilding activities and workshops in their staff conferences, or private parties.
 
Using dance to create an exclusive teambuilding experience ‘with a difference’, Darren and Lilia can design a bespoke workshop to suit your event.
 
Whether you’re rewarding staff, wanting to motivate, break down boundaries, or simply have fun, this is a popular and exciting opportunity, not to be missed. 

Harnessing the visual and physical elements of dance, Darren and Lilia will explore:
 

• Relationships
• Partnering skills
• Body language
• Leadership
• Challenges
• Achievement
• The removal of inhibition
• Performance

Choreographed dance routines for couples or groups that can be performed to colleagues as part of an evening presentation

This presentation could include a dance competition, with Darren and Lilia judging the winner with the help of the audience.
 
Using dance to emphasise the many aspects of business, from partnerships to body language.

Darren and Lilia will demonstrate how to bring all elements of a show together (i.e. routines, music, costume). They will speak about how important it is in business for each sector to work together, in order to get the best performance.
 
By using the examples of ballroom and Latin dance which, by definition are partner based, Darren and Lilia will illustrate how dance can be used to break down the boundaries between employees and encourage teamwork.

Due to ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Ballroom & Latin dancing has become hugely popular and clients now have the opportunity to experience something they see every week on TV - and learn to dance like the stars!! 

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Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova are an award-winning professional dance duo. The pair are perhaps best known for their work on the hit show, BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Dancing together since 1997, Darren and Lilia achieved great success early on in their careers. As a partnership they won the International and British Youth Championships at under 21. As amateurs, they went on to win the British National Championships four times and danced at Elton John’s 50^th birthday, The Motor Show and at London Fashion Week.

Turning Professional in 2003, the pair won the British Rising Star Professional Championships at their first attempt, beating 250 couples to the prestigious title. They continued their success by making the final of the Italian & Dutch Opens and World Masters. Within their first year of professionalism they achieved a ranking in the top six of the World Series.

Over the following years, Darren and Lilia made it to the World Latin American Final in the USA, and the European Championships in Moscow.  They were members of the British Team for over four years, and in 2005 became British National Professional Champions after being placed first in all five dances, retaining the title in 2006.

Darren and Lilia are the most successful dance partnership on Strictly Come Dancing. The show is a BBC success story, and at its peak has attracted over 12 million viewers. Between them they have won a total of seven trophies. In 2004 Darren won the series dancing with Eastender’s star, Jill Halfpenny. They then went on to win the Champion of Champions dance-off. The following year Lilia took the title whilst partnering cricketing star, Darren Gough. Lilia and Gough went on to win both the International, and 2007 Christmas Specials.

In 2008, they embarked on the Strictly Come Dancing Livetour, performing over 40 shows at some of the countries top arena venues including the 02, MEN, and Wembley.
The pair have had the pleasure of performing with many international stars including Michael Buble, Kylie, Cliff Richard, Westlife and the Spice Girls. They have also performed on The Royal Variety Show, Bruce’s Birthday and The Big Finish.
 
Throughout the Summer of 2009, Darren and Lilia performed a successful run of their highly acclaimed, hit dance show, Latin Fever at the Peacock Theatre, London and Birmingham Symphony Hall. Joined by four top Latin American dancing duos and a nine-piece Latin Band, the spectacular show saw the pair embark on a breathtaking voyage, transporting them from the streets of Brazil to the bullrings of Spain by way of a vibrant mix of dance styles including the tango, rumba and cha-cha-cha. The show was entirely created, produced and performed by the pair, from choreography to costume design. The show was such a huge success, Darren and Lilia returned to the stage in Summer 2010, this time for a nationwide tour.

Darren and Lila are involved in the Essentially Dance scheme funded by the Aldridge Foundation. The intention of the programme is to give all children within the UK the opportunity to experience ballroom and latin dance, and was officially launched in June 2009.

"Just wanted to pass on a huge thank you from us both to you for all your organising and to Darren & Lilia for their performance. They did a fantastic job, went down very well with the crowd, I think a perfect fit for our event and guests were all very keen to join in!"

- fanfare3000

"I hope Darren and Lilia enjoyed their time with us, they were an absolute pleasure, very nice genuine people.  They have real chemistry and their dance routines were fantastic and the feedback from our guests has been excellent!  So a good time was had by all."

- Bedford Lodge Hotel 

"It was absolutely fantastic - Darren and Lilia impressed our guests, my colleagues and directors with their superb dancing, friendliness, how down to earth they were, willingness to pose for photos and general time spent with the guests."

- Insurance Brokers

"The whole evening went perfectly and Darren and Lilia were fabulous. Thank you all so much - the feedback that we have had from the evening was excellent!! Many people have fed back to say that it was our best event ever !! Darren and Lilia were lovely to work with and participated with the audience brilliantly!! I hope we didnt tire them out too much with all of the photos and 'meet and greets'!!"

- Cambridge Assessment Entertainments Committee

"THANK YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH on Breast Cancer Care’s behalf to Darren and Lilia for giving such a stunning opening performance... The audience absolutely loved having them there – you could tell there was a 1000 fans in the room!  We’re really lucky they both do so much for us and are always grateful - The Show just wouldn’t be the same without them! It was brilliant that they were able to join us in supporting the evening show as well too."

- Breast Cancer Care Ambassador & Celebrity Relations Manager