Quality Dance and Drama Classes
Mill Hill & Edgware
Nurturing Dreams, Inspiring Confidence
Lower School 2.5 – 7 years
We know how important it is that your little one has the best that you can possibly provide them with…that’s why all our team truly love teaching our youngest students and are passionate about making their first steps in the world of theatre magical, stimulating and inspiring!
We also believe that these tiny people deserve nothing but the highest quality learning and that’s why our programmes are carefully crafted and delivered to ensure that your child’s imaginative and creative skills are nurtured. Not only that but right from the start they will learn the foundations of safe and correct technique, develop gross and fine motor skills, social and cognitive skills, and the tools for independent learning, as well as making lifelong friendships!
Watch their confidence soar as we encourage a desire to learn and a sense of achievement for every little milestone in every class!
Lower School 2-4 yrs
Lower School 4-5 yrs
Lower School 5-7 yrs
Testimonials
Truly outstanding
Thank you Sue, and thanks for your and your team’s hard work over the last year through some really challenging times – getting a 100% pass rate, and all with merits it distinctions too, is truly an outstanding achievement.
Keep up the good work!
Parent of a 10 year old.
Fantastic effort
I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for the hard work and fantastic effort you put to train our daughter throughout last year. Surely because of you, she’s come to love Ballet. THANK YOU.
Parent of a 5 year old.
Magnificent show
Dear Sue & team, We were completely in awe at the magnificent show that you all choreographed and put on. We truly congratulate all of you for the many hours of hard work & planning to produce such a high calibre performance. We also would like to thank all the young assistant teachers that help in her class also. I truly applaud you Sue, for your incredible dedication to your craft…. Beyond outstanding.
We all wish you & your team a restful and restorative summer break.
Grandmother of a 6 year old.
Lovely teacher
T had her trial lesson and she absolutely loved it! The teacher today was lovely! Thank you for having us and we cannot wait until the next class.
Incredible dance school
We are so grateful for the incredible dance school that you lead and glad that our daughters have been a part of it.
Parent of an 11 and 13 year old.
Just a quick thank you for making L’s exam experience today so enjoyable. I have never seen her so relaxed before a dance exam and she came out feeling very pleased with herself. You must be worn out, but all your hard work is much appreciated.
Thanks again.
Parent of a 14 year old.
Lower School 2.5 – 4 years
Ballet, Tap, Modern Combo (Level 1)
This is a great combination class which incorporates learning expression, musicality and technique using imagery, story-telling and props to excite and inspire them, giving our budding dancers self-confidence and a real sense of achievement and enjoyment!
Your little dancer will love learning 3 contrasting and complementary styles of dance, building their confidence and skills:
- 15 minutes tap dance – they love those noisy shoes and will develop rhythm, balance and co-ordination.
- 15 minutes ballet – such a wonderful base for all other styles of dance, building core strength, poise, grace, posture, balance and co-ordination.
- 15 minutes modern dance – we explore different movement dynamics, expressive qualities, practise being more flexible and learn how to travel freely when dancing.
Lower School 4 – 5 years
Ballet, Tap, Modern Combo (Level 2)
Here we incorporate developing increasing expression, musicality and technique using imagery, story-telling and props to excite and inspire them. This is a very exciting stage where your little one will make huge progress as they delight in the realisation that they can now manage some of their steps without a teacher!
Your little dancer will love learning 3 contrasting and complementary styles of dance, creating a solid foundation for their dance journey as we start to develop their ability to learn more independently.
- 15 minutes tap dance – they love those noisy shoes and will develop rhythm, balance and co-ordination with an increasing vocabulary.
- 30 minutes ballet – a wonderful base for all other styles of dance, developing greater core strength, poise, grace, posture, balance and co-ordination with increased complexity.
- 15 minutes modern dance – we explore different movement dynamics, expressive qualities, practise being more flexible and learn how to travel freely when dancing as well as short routines.
Acting Up! Speech and Drama
Our Head of Drama has specially devised an exciting, imaginative programme which is tailored for each age group and is lots of fun! This uniquely designed programme is adapted for each age group to develop confidence, clear speech, communication, imagination, focus and teamwork, alongside a wide variety of practical performance skills.
Lil Beatz Street Dance
This fab, fun and funky class is one of a kind, with its energetic, specially created routines and music including warm up and stretches. Your Lil dancer will have fun exploring the different techniques of street dance and learning how to link the steps together whilst they grow their confidence bustin’ out their new routines with that extra flair!
Lower School 5.5 – 7 years
Ballet, Tap & Modern Dance (Level 3)
Classical ballet is universally recognised as a wonderful base for all other styles of dance, building core strength, poise, grace, posture, balance and co-ordination as well as helping instill resilience and self-discipline.
Tap and Modern Dance complement ballet beautifully as they allow the dancer to become very versatile in the way they are able to move their bodies and respond to a huge variety of music.
Tap explores more complex rhythms, and develops expression through the tone created by the different beats and taps as well as the fluidity and style in the upper body.
Modern explores a huge variety of dynamics, movement qualities and styles, and creates the building blocks for jazz and contemporary dance later on.
As in all our classes, we incorporate learning technique, musicality and expression in a fun and imaginative way that excites and inspires our students. We try to encourage them to think for themselves and understand how all the different movements and styles they are learning are inter-related. Our aim is to create happy, self-motivated, dancers with a sense of pride in themselves!
Studying all 3 genres at this age creates a beautiful and well-rounded dancer. Once we get to this level there’s so much more to learn and so we split into two classes:
- Primary Ballet The dancers now begin to learn more complex ballet skills in a more independent manner.
- Primary Tap and Grade 1 Modern Again we are now teaching our dancers to be more independent whilst learning more complex tap and modern skills.
Acting Up! Speech and Drama
Our Head of Drama has specially devised an exciting, imaginative programme which is tailored for each age group and is lots of fun! This uniquely designed programme is adapted for each age group to develop confidence, clear speech, communication, imagination, focus and teamwork, alongside a wide variety of practical performance skills.
Lil Beatz Street Dance
This fab, fun and funky class is one of a kind, with its energetic, specially created routines and music including warm up and stretches. Your Lil dancer will have fun exploring the different techniques of street dance and learning how to link the steps together whilst they grow their confidence bustin’ out their new routines with that extra flair!
Acro
We’re proud to be a qualified and accredited studio with Acrobatic Arts.
Their syllabus is beautifully crafted, with safe, consistent progressions, which give our dancers cardiovascular fitness, strength, core stability, and flexibility, allowing them to safely progress through basic skills such as bridge, handstands and cartwheels, into more complex acrobatic skills.
As with all our classes, we incorporate learning technique, musicality and expression in a fun and imaginative way that excites and inspires our students. We try to encourage them to think for themselves and understand how all the different movements and styles they are learning are inter-related. Our aim is to create happy, self-motivated, dancers with a sense of pride in themselves!