Acro combines classical techniques with acrobatic elements. Acro dancers seamlessly blend musicality, emotional expression, line and extension with acrobatic movements in a dance context.
Acro combines classical techniques with acrobatic elements. Acro dancers seamlessly blend musicality, emotional expression, line and extension with acrobatic movements in a dance context.
It’s time to explore correct technique, musicality, and coordination as our young dancers progress through the excellent ISTD syllabus.
Conditioning for Dance improves your technique and performance in all dance forms by strengthening the body's core (abdominal and back muscles) while developing coordination, balance, and alignment and optimizing flexibility. This is very much a health and fitness class that helps a dancer progress to higher levels of achievement in all of their dance classes.
Contemporary is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance styles including lyrical, jazz and ballet. It is very expressive and uses emotions and storytelling, meaning it is the perfect class for both dancers who decide to start classes at a later age or have been studying dance for several years.
First Ballet, Modern & Tap with Melody Bear is the follow-on syllabus to Melody Movement.
First Ballet introduces simple ballet techniques within the creative and nurturing environment of Melody Bear’s world. In addition to an exciting variety of set exercises, creativity is explored with dances based on fairy stories with Melody Bear dancing as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and the Tale of the Turnip.
Our Jazz classes are super fun and use a mix of Pop, Musical Theatre and Disney music. You get to work on Jazz technique of kicks, leaps and turns and also learn choreography each half term to a popular song. This class doesn’t follow an exam syllabus and is suitable for those just wanting to take a class with their friends.
We have created an incredible training programme for our dancers who want to take dance to the next level. This programme is called EXCEL! Not just additional classes, Excel is a package of knowledge, training, mentoring and support for those dancers who have a burning passion for their training and want to exceed their full potential.
Leaps and turns add style, elegance and the wow! factor to any dance. They also have the trick element with Firebird leaps, turning box leaps to fouette turns, pose turns and many more. We follow the #RosinaAndrewsMethod to improve the elevation for leaps and and improve the number of multiple turns that can be achieved.
Flit like a Fairy, Fly like birds, Take a train ride on an adventure, launch into space! This imaginative class for 2.5 - 4 year olds will take them on a wonderful journey each week. Help them make friends, take turns and build their confidence.
Loveable Teddy's Milligan & Melody Bear are the Focal point in the lesson and will help guide them on their journey
What is modern? It’s fun, exciting, creative, energetic! The specially created ISTD syllabus will bring out their creative and imaginative side while they explore correct technique and body alignment.
Let your child’s mind be ignited with this super FUN class especially designed to build their confidence and spark their imagination.
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) is an innovative body-conditioning and strengthening program that has been designed to enhance students' technique by focussing on training the muscle memory required in each exercise in all forms of dance. It is a unique training system using ballet-technique specific exercises to train skill acquisition in a graded and progressive manner from junior through to advanced levels.
We have created an incredible training programme for our dancers who want to take dance to the next level. This programme is called EXCEL! Not just additional classes, Excel is a package of knowledge, training, mentoring and support for those dancers who have a burning passion for their training and want to exceed their full potential.
Our popular tap classes are full of interesting rhythms and lots of fun! Let your children tap their troubles away to upbeat music that helps stimulate their creativity!