Class Descriptions

Scroll down to find out more about each of the classes we provide:

Children's Classes

Street Dance
& Mini Street Dance

Street Dance is an umbrella term for all Street Dance styles: Popping, Locking, Hip Hop, Breaking etc. Allowing the children to learn elements from a range of styles and learn routines packed with style! Our Director, Freedom is an experienced Street Dancer and Teacher who creates exciting and entertaining routines each term, whilst allowing time during class for 'cyphering', an essential part of Street Dance culture where children get to develop their own style and share their own moves with the class.

Commercial Dance
& Mini Commercial Dance

Commercial Dance is a lose term for a movement base inspired by one of the street dances mentioned on the left, and/or contemporary dance. These are often applied to commercial choreography in music videos or choreography for advertisements, making it a fun and varying class, structured with high energy warm ups, stretches and entertaining routines. For the younger classes this can incorporate some of their favourite Disney film music and bring out the pure joy of dance.

Contemporary Dance
& Mini Contemporary Dance

Contemporary Dance is a term coined around the 1980s by dancers who wanted to break free from the western traditions within ballet and explore a freer range of movement within the body as well as exploring emotions through dance. Our contemporary dance teachers incorporate a range of techniques drawing on experience within ballet, release, floor work and creative exercises.

Jazz Dance

Jazz Dance, like most dance styles, has origins linked with the era in which its related music genre was created. During the Swing Era of the 1930's and 40's in Black American society, Jazz dance was originally a social dance style, but has since then been modernised and is mostly taught through specific forms of movement, performed to a range of music, not just jazz. The class therefore is technical and fun using individual and group choreography, where the children get the chance to learn engaging routines each term.

Ballet
& Mini Ballet

Ballet classes consist of warm up exercises and stretches, barre, centre and travelling sequences based on standardised ballet technique. The technique itself in fact originated in Italy during the renaissance period, originally performed only for Royals and Aristocrats with its popularity spreading far and wide across the world in the last 600+ years!

Mini Ballet & Street

This has long been one of our most popular classes for the little ones as it boasts both the discipline of ballet with the fun and energising Street Dance. The class begins with a set of ballet technique exercises, using playful ideas to engage children within the technique such as the use of dance scarves. The children then have a short time to change into their trainers for the Street Dance section of the class where they can let loose and get into the groove with some funky tunes!

Hip Hop

Hip Hop is referred to in the Street Dance community as a "stand up style" meaning its technique focuses on grooves and social moves that generally don't relate to Break Dance or floorwork. The class consists of fun warm ups and games alongside foundations of bouncing, rocking, stepping and a series of moves coined "social grooves" which are formalised movements each with their own technical term, creating the overall repertoire of Hip Hop dance from the Old Skool of the 80s to present day.

Gymnastics

As seen in the Olympics, this highly disciplined artform helps strengthen both the body and mind when learning flexibility, power and precision through repetition. Classes include safe but challenging stretches and techniques to develop within the artform, culminating in a routine at the end of the term, giving students a chance to practice their performance skills.

Musical Theatre
& Mini Musical Theatre

Musical Theatre consist of the three main disciplines of dance, music and drama. In this class children explore each individual discipline throughout the course of the term and put their practice into action by learning a number to a Musical song for the end of term show!

Visual Art
& Mini Visual Art

Once called 'the calm class' by one of the students, this is a lovely environment for your child to extend their love of all things art. Each student has their own sketchbook as a portfolio of their work throughout the term, which includes the foundational skills of pencil and painting control, design and learning about artists. We also cover a range of mediums such as sculpture, collage, crafts, observational drawing and painting.

Singing
& Mini Singing

Singing classes are run in small groups of up to 6 students, enabling more focused attention from teacher to student. Classes will include vocal warm ups and exercises as well as breathe control and learning songs both aurally and with sight reading as the children's learning progresses. Minis will be singing nursery rhymes and Grade 1 level songs.

Music
& Mini Music

This is our latest edition to the timetable. Music classes are run in small groups of up to 6 students, enabling more focused attention from teacher to student. Classes will include a combination of practical and theory learning such as notes, scales, rhythm, and some sight reading and writing as the children's learning progresses. We will provide instruments for the children to play and also learn a bit about the culture and history of their origins.

Adult Classes

Waacking

Pioneered by Tyrone Proctor and Jody Watley in the 1970s, Waacking is a dance style from West Coast USA created in dance clubs. The style is characterized by dynamic arm movements, focussed on creating shapes and poses and is often danced to disco music. The teacher, Louise aka "Nova", creates a welcoming environment which pushes her students to develop each week through carefully thought out classes consisting of both technical and creative elements.

Hip Hop Foundations

A class with unmatched good vibes! Courtesy of SIr Proverbs. Each session allows students to develop the foundations of bounce, rock, roll and march through drills, creative tasks and cyphering.

Hip Hop Techniques

Taught by Evion "Mantis" a renowned dancer in the hip hop dance scene and multiple international hip hop battle winner. Evion has a highly technical style which inspires those he teaches. This class focuses on drills and sequences which develop a high level of coordination and open up new pathways to dancing in this style.

Hip Hop Sessions

Hosted by Lorena, Ian and Chiara, this session exists to provide regular training space for the hip hop dance community to come together and help each other grow. We are grateful to be able to provide this space for the community; to be able to join in and express ourselves too and see so many dancers experimenting with new ideas and coming together from all walks of life and even different parts of the world!

House Dance Jam

Hosted by Chiara, this jam provides space for the house dance scene to come and experiment with their practise, sometimes with a live DJ!

Hip Hop Battle Training

Taught by multiple hip hop battle winner Prilla, this class will get you working hard towards becoming a stronger hip hop dancer in the battle scene. The class consists of a full on warm up, drills, sequences, creative tasks, battling and a jam at the end to round it all off. Get ready to up your level.