Children's Classes
Classes AVAILABLE for Children …
Ballet - available for girls and boys of Pre-school age upwards.
Pre-school classes include movements, steps & short sequences performed to music or percussion instruments. The emphasis is on developing musicality & co-ordination in a fun environment.
Much of the work is approached through mimetic stories which helps unlock the children’s imagination and contributes greatly to developing expression & performance in dance.
Rosette exams are available from the age of 3. Over the years these have proved an excellent programme to help develop a child’s confidence. The children are entered in small groups and the test is verbally conducted by the teacher or assistant.
Pupils continuing further are prepared for Grade and Medal tests in the I.D.T.A.
Tap & Theatre-craft - available for girls and boys of 4 years and upwards.
Making rhythmic sounds in ‘noisy shoes’ is very appealing to all ages. Theatre-craft is also taught along side Tap. This subject is beneficial to maintain rhythm and timing and because of the great vocabulary of steps it enhances the tap performance as well as developing many varied musical dance styles.
Gymnastic Dance - available for girls and boys of 5 years and upwards.
A syllabus which combines gymnastic feats with dance movements and all set to music. Pupils have taken exams in solo grades as well as solo and duo Medals. Enthusiasm in class is highly contagious with most pupils wanting to spend as much time as possible upside-down!
Boys Freestyle & Gymnastics - from 4 years.
Specially designed classes to cater for boys’ style of movement and including Gymnastics - already a great hit! My present ‘gang’ started at the age of 4 & 5 years and have notched up 38 Freestyle & Theatre Rosettes. They starred as the ‘Mini-Men in Black’ in our show 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', they performed as the rock band ‘The Rebels’ at a local PTA Summer Fete and the Talisman Square Christmas Lights switch-on. In our last show, 'Pinocchio' they excelled themselves as Breakdancing Blue-bottle Flies!!!!
Free-style (Disco Divas!) - 5 years upwards
Dance to your favourite pop group! Children love this form of dance and within the social atmosphere learning becomes easy and great fun.
Drama & Musical Theatre Awards - 7 years upwards
A Saturday club which explores all aspects of Drama including mime, acting, improvisation, choral speaking, make-up demonstrations and public speaking. Pupils are entered for the I.D.T.A. Musical Theatre Awards which combines the talents of singing, acting & dancing in short exerts from Musical shows. There are two groups currently rehearsing performances from ‘Alice in Wonderland' and 'Grease'.
LAMDA Group - from any age
This class enables pupils to be prepared and entered for elocution and acting exams with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
