Dance Classes for Kids in Rubery, Birmingham

Nursery Ballet is an introduction to classical ballet using creative, imaginative role-playing and fun props.

This class may involve pretending to be animals, playing instruments to learn rhythm, learning to balance, skipping and running and techniques using costumes and ribbons or picking up “diamonds” (shhh...they are just feathers) from the ground to develop their hand-eye coordination.

This class is suitable for both boys and girls who are having so much fun that they do not even realise that they are learning the fundamentals of ballet technique.

The music for this class is fun and familiar to the students and expands on the techniques learned during our Nursery Ballet classes.

In this class we do some warming up, stretching, progressions across the room in Tap, Ballet, and Acro. 

We also put together a dance for the annual school show!

In this class, our dancers build on their ballet technique using creative roleplay, costumes, props and will thrive from positive reinforcement.

They will also work on developing foot strength, classical lines, the ability to turn, and to improve balance and jumps.

There are opportunities for students in this class to participate in ballet exams which will encourage them to progress through the syllabus and work hard to move up into the next graded level.

Pointe work in classical ballet is formalized by pointe technique, it is performed in pointe shoes.

Pointe technique means that dancers perform on the tips of fully extended feet.

We progress the student from working on demi point into pointe shoes so they can eventually perform, exams, solos, and group dances en pointe.

We have known for a long time that kids love nothing more than attempting and perfecting new “tricks.”

Remember learning a cartwheel? We sure do, and it is that sense of pride and exhilaration that we love to pass on to all students. Our acro class is taught by our fully qualified Acrobatic Arts teachers and the class levels for this discipline are skill-based.

The levels start at Primary and work up to professional levels, once our students have mastered the skills in their level, they move up to the next allowing them to develop their skills at their own pace.

We also offer exams that will encourage the dancer to progress through the syllabus and work hard to move up to the next graded level.

Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet.

Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements.

We follow the Associated Board of Dance Syllabus and there are opportunities for students in this class to participate in exams which will encourage them to progress through the syllabus and work hard to move up into the next graded level.

Students are building on the basics of jazz technique to popular and age-appropriate music.

Some examples of the techniques our jazz students will learn include progressive stretch exercises and age-appropriate conditioning exercises to strengthen muscles, increase agility, control, and power in dance combos.

We progressively train all relevant Kick, Turn, Jump techniques, and body isolations. We aim to keep the dancer motivated to reach their full potential as a technical dancer.

In this class students would be learning the basics of tap technique as well as building on their sense of rhythm and their confidence when it comes to performances.

Our tappers love dancing to popular, age-appropriate music and getting LOUD!

We follow the Associated Board of Dance Syllabus and there are opportunities for students in this class to participate in exams which will encourage them to progress through the syllabus and work hard to move up into the next graded level.

Our body conditioning classes focus on strength and muscular endurance.

We use age-appropriate conditioning exercises to strengthen muscles, increase agility, control, and power.

We follow the Alixa Flexibility method, which teaches safe techniques to stretch & improve to all levels of abilities & ages, building a solid flexibility foundation with a focus on injury prevention and safety.