Dance
Intent
Our dance curriculum is designed to inspire a lifelong love of movement and performance while nurturing technical skill, creativity, and personal expression. We aim to provide a broad and balanced dance education that caters for varying abilities, from foundational techniques to advanced performance skills. Through exposure to a range of styles—Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Contemporary — students will develop physical literacy, musicality, discipline, and artistic interpretation. Our curriculum promotes cultural appreciation, resilience, teamwork, and self-confidence, preparing learners for progression into further dance training or related performing arts pathways.
Implementation
We deliver a progressive, skill-based curriculum with clearly defined technical and creative outcomes for each style and ability set.
- Ballet: Students build a foundation in classical technique, starting with core barre and centre practice, progressing through adage, pirouettes, allegro, batterie, and repertoire work. Progressive Ballet Technique and floor barre strengthen placement and alignment.
- Jazz: Core conditioning, flexibility, and strength underpin all jazz learning. Students explore styles from Commercial and Broadway Jazz to Lyrical and Technical Jazz, ensuring versatility.
- Tap: Pupils learn both English and American tap traditions, progressing from basic steps and time steps to advanced rhythms, speed work, and show choreography.
- Contemporary: Drawing on techniques from Martha Graham and Horton, students develop contemporary movement skills, improvisation, choreography, and storytelling through dance.
Lessons are sequenced to revisit and deepen prior learning, with formative feedback guiding improvement. Opportunities for performance, workshops, and cross-style choreography ensure students apply skills in varied contexts.
Impact
By the end of their dance journey, students will:
- Demonstrate secure technical proficiency across multiple dance styles, appropriate to their level.
- Exhibit creativity, adaptability, and the ability to choreograph and perform with confidence.
- Understand the cultural and historical contexts of the dance forms studied.
- Show improved physical fitness, posture, coordination, and musicality.
- Have developed transferable skills such as discipline, perseverance, teamwork, and self-reflection.
Our curriculum ensures students leave with both the technical and personal attributes to excel in dance and beyond, whether pursuing further training, performance opportunities, or simply a continued engagement with the art form.