Kathleen de Leon Jones

Hi-5 - Dance Hits Volume 1

Tis the season to be jolly... Hi-5 have got Christmas all wrapped up with the ultimate gift - hours of singing, dancing and fun! Charli decorates the Hi-5 Christmas tree... Nathan wraps fun shaped Christmas presents... Kellie and Chats make Christmas goodies... Tim, with Hi-5's help, sings a special Christmas song... and Kathleen makes a sandy summer snowman. Plus as an extra special festive treat, Hi-5 sing all your favourite Christmas songs in their spectacular live Christmas Eve Concert. The stockings are up, the sleighs are out, the reindeer are ready and Santa is about to break into a sweat, so lets put the heat back into Christmas and celebrate the holiday season

Take a deep breath and plunge into the latest entertainment extravaganza with the gang from Hi-5. Full of inventive dance moves and loaded with catchy songs, 'Hi-Energy' is an explosion of colour, movement and music. Gather your friends around an dget ready to go wild - Hi-5 are vibed and energised.

Hi-5, an Australian children's television program, was first shown on the Nine Network in 1999. Hi-5 is known as a children's pop music group as well as being a television show, much like peer children's entertainers The Wiggles. They also teach arts and crafts. Hi-5 is now shown in approximately 80 countries. Each year, the series has 45 episodes with nine weekly themes. In 2004, the show was marked by reduced episodes than normal, with 30 episodes in six weekly themes due to the band concentrating more on touring. In 2009 was marked the beginning of the "second generation" of Hi-5, with all of the original members having departed in 2007/2008. The series was renewed for another five years with the new cast by the Nine Network, which would have the contract expire in 2013. In March 2013, Hi-5's first movie, Some Kind of Wonderful, was released in selected Hoyts Junior cinemas around Australia and New Zealand. The movie showed the history of Hi-5's cast changes and a behind-the-scenes look at the search to find three new members, Dayen Zheng, Ainsley Melham and Mary Lascaris who would replace Fely Irvine, Tim Maddren and Casey Burgess in 2012/2013. The new Hi-5 series called Hi-5 House will be filmed in Singapore, according to executive producer Julie Grenne. Currently, they commitment of concerts in some Asian countries with Hi-5 Wonderful Tour.