We offer a variety of dance styles to suit every taste, helping you express yourself, learn new skills, stay active, and have fun along the way.
Ballet
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Modern Dance
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Jazz
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Contemporary
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Competition choreography
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Ballet ✳︎ Modern Dance ✳︎ Jazz ✳︎ Contemporary ✳︎ Competition choreography ✳︎
Offered classes
ballet in the cecchetti method
Ballet developed in the Courts of Europe over 400 years ago. Beginning as a formal entertainment for important Kings and Queens and their guests, Pantomime, as it was then called, drew on the folk dances of the time. The spectacle of these enormous productions was designed to impress. Today, while we still see many grand ballets, such as Swan lake and Sleeping Beauty, the focus is much more on technique, artistry, musicality, disciplined training and is aimed at the enjoyment for all, no matter who, or where. The Cecchetti method, is an exceptionally challenging method with sound scientific basis, and artistic integrity. Other methods and Syllabi included RAD, Vaganova, Bournonville, the Paris Opera French method.
Cecchetti Classical Ballet has a rich heritage and combines a clear and logical pathway of technical progression with inherent musicality and a unique sense of style. The Cecchetti Method and principles have been formative in the training of many of the world’s greatest ballet dancers, choreographers and directors - Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Jazz: Jazz-Ed syllabus
Jazz started in the early 1900’s in the jazz music clubs of New Orleans and spread to many parts of the world. Also see in Musicals, Jazz was popularised by Dancers and Choreographers like Bob Fosse, Luigi and Jack Cole.
Modern dance
Begun as a reaction to the strict stylistic requirements of Ballet, Modern dance is expressive, but still requiring strength, technique and understanding. Names most associated with Modern Dance are Lester Horton, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Isadora Duncan. Modern Dance includes Theatre Dance, often seen, along with Jazz Dance in Musicals.
Contemporary
Expressive, flowing, and blending elements of Ballet, modern jazz and even HipHop, contemporary dance prioritises emotions and even improvisation over strict technique.