The whole school can celebrate class work and examination success with family and friends at our Annual Award Ceremony.
Our Ceremonies are held at King Edwards School, Birmingham.
Dancers demonstrate their class work for each genre to give you an insight into what we do in class work.
Examination Certificates are received, we also operate our own class achievement recognition scheme that rewards students for exemplary conduct and high achievement.
A medal is given to the students that have shown hard work and dedication per genre. We also give the dancers the opportunity to vote for dancer’s dancer and a trophy is awarded to the dancer of the year.
Grazia students successfully compete in regional, national and international festivals throughout the year.
We are proud to say we are one of the schools from around the country chosen to represent England at the Dance World Cup competition held in a different country each year.
The school also wins thousands of medals, trophies and titles each year for the high standard of technique, performance, choreography at regional competitions.
We are currently the runner up from the ABD Midlands Festival 2019.
Dance Shows
We hold shows every year, this is an extremely exciting and popular time for the school calendar as new choreography, costumes and routines are put together.
These all help to produce a fantastic show which is performed in a professional theatre.
Our Dancing Dots, Primary, Junior, Inter and Senior dancers are all given the opportunity to take part in the shows.
Performances
We are exceptionally proud and privileged to have performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the country to name a few:
London 02 Royal Albert Hall Birmingham Hippodrome Blackpool Winter Gardens
As a dance school who values the growth and commitment of our dancers from all ages, it is our pleasure to offer exams to students in:
Acrobatic Arts Ballet – Associated Board of Dance Contemporary- Associated Board of Dance Tap- Associated Board of Dance
We normally take exams:
Acrobatic Arts – Once a year Ballet, Contemporary and Tap - Twice a year
While exams are not compulsory, our program is a recognised syllabus. If your child is considering continuing to dance vocationally as they grow older, we strongly recommend completing your exams.
Our vast experience shows that formal exams present a unique opportunity for the children to display and take pride in how hard they work and can progress in their classes. Our exam students always find their exam experience to be uplifting, beneficial and rewarding.
Dance Scholarships
We have been lucky enough to personally be invited through high examination results to previous ABD scholarships events where our dancers have made it through to finals.
In the latest 2019 event we had 5 finalists that made the top 8.
Hannah Goddard – Junior Ballet Hannah Goddard – Junior Modern Hannah Goddard – Junior Acro Tia Sands – Junior Ballet Sommer Smith – Senior Acro
Tia Sands was placed 8th out of 80 dancers in the Junior Ballet. Sommer Smith was awarded Senior Acro Runner up. Hannah Goddard was a treble award winner, placing 1st in all three genres Ballet, Modern and Acro. Hannah will now go on to represent ABD at the TDCI championship finals in Blackpool in 2021.
Further dance education and ambassadors
We have had many students audition and successfully gain a place with:
Birmingham Ormiston Academy Elmhurst Ballet School Midlands Theatre Ballet Company Seek Dance Company
Many of our dancers have been selected for ambassador roles for companies such as:
Prima Dancewear Chelsey Marie Acrobatics 4dance1 Maisie J Dance Photography Aimee Tori Dance Photography
