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3 Industry Professionals are our June Guest Teachers

Our pupils have been super lucky this month to receive online workshops from 3 industry professionals. Our Patron, and West End Choreogra...

Ballet Pupils Excel in their Video Exams

We are so proud of our 43 pupils who did their Royal Academy of Dance Ballet exams in March. With hardly any notice, they took their exam...

Bethany off to Northern School of Contemporary Dance

We are delighted to announce that senior student Bethany Lewis has been accepted to Northern School of Contemporary Dance from September ...

World Dance Challenge England Kit arrives

The World Dance Challenge may be postponed due to Covid-19 until December but the kit has arrived and our girls look fabulous in it. We a...

Still Dancing at Home

We may be in Lockdown but you can't stop us dancing! Our pupils have shown great creativity and resilience practising their weekly online...

Medals Galore for our Festival Pupils

Our Competition Team has competed at the Exeter, North Cornwall, Cardiff and Highbridge Festivals recently and once again did us proud, b...

Fabulous results for exam pupils

2020 has got off to a great start with all of our exam pupils doing us proud. Our Modern and Tap pupils achieved a staggering 41 Distinc...

Pupils to represent England at World Dance Challenge

Exciting news for 9 of our pupils who have been selected to represent Team England at the World Dance Challenge in Portugal in April 2020...

Christmas Jumpers for Save the Children

We had a wonderful array of jumpers during our annual Christmas Jumper Week and are delighted to have raised £148 for Save the Children.

Christmas at Southlawns

The residents of Southlawns were thrilled to invite some of our pupils to their home in the run up to Christmas. It was a festive evenin...

Christmas Party Fun

We had a brilliant festive disco and party with our junior pupils at the weekend. There was dancing and games galore, pupils enjoyed hot...

Toby to appear with Birmingham Royal Ballet

We always love hearing from our former pupils and are delighted that our recent leavers are settling in well on their performing arts cou...

Pupils take to the Stage

Congratulations to Florence and Megan who have just been cast in YAOS' Spring production of The Sound of Music and to Mia who has been ca...

17 Trophies and 68 Medals for our Competition Team

Our Competition pupils have had a busy few weeks competing in festivals in Wales and the South West and have brought home 68 Gold, Silver...

Jake cast in West End's Hamilton

We are thrilled to announce that Jake Halsey-Jones, who was part of our Cats cast and who sang in this summer's show You'll Be In My Hear...

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