EVERGREEN York dance teacher and choreographer Evelyn Witcombe will present 60 of her students in The Joy Of Dance at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, later this month.

This display of many forms of dance, including jazz, tap, ballet and modern, will be Evelyn's 46th annual show.

"I'd like to get to 50," she says, with typical tenacity, as she prepares to stage a showcase with no fewer than 34 dance pieces, all but three of them choreographed by Evelyn.

Sunbeams, a new class of six and seven year olds, will be dancing Tik Tak, The Sun is Up and Sing A Rainbow and will back singer Kate Rawlings when she closes the first half with her rendition of Getting To Know You.

Katie Miller, who has just achieved first class honours in dance at the Leeds Met, has choreographed the Jetsetters' routine, Love Me Again. "Katie has landed a job at a dance academy in Ripon, so I'm delighted for her," says Evelyn.

Further items in the programme will range from the Starlets' Nursery Rhymes to the Young Jazzers' Let's Go Jazz; the Pre Pointes Class's Pizzicato to the Gals' Lambeth Walk; and the Reflections' The Clapping Song to Rainbow's Rockin' Robin.

Charlotte Hardy, Hannah Poulton, Claire Blaze and Anneka Hardcastle will perform the Tristch Trastch ballet routine, while Aimee Thompson and Olivia Clark-Neufville will dance an acrobatic duet, Rough'n'Tumble. "They're like rubber bands," says Evelyn.

The obligatory Can Can will find the Trendsetters and Panache dancers in high-kicking mode before the finale, The Carnival de Paris.

"The whole auditorium will be alive with dancers coming in from all parts of the theatre for the big finish," says Evelyn.

Performances by the Evelyn Witcombe School of Dance start at 7.15pm, May 15 to 17; tickets cost £10, concessions £9 for the Thursday and Friday shows, on 01904 652202 or 01904 768307.