Students aged 14-16 train full-time in classical ballet alongside a full range of GCSE options. Our ballet classes are integrated into the academic timetable, with admission onto the course via audition only.
Students receive a bespoke programme with the benefits of limited admissions resulting in small class sizes. Focusing on quality of over quantity allows our teachers to work closely with students and allows for personal mentoring time and individual technique coaching.
On completing the course students are trained to the highest pre-professional level are ready to graduate to a Professional Vocational Course.
Students learn the formalised movements and positions of the arms, feet, and body designed to enable the dancer to move with the greatest possible agility, control, speed, lightness, and grace.
A style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet.
A duet. Our students learn how to respect and work with others and are able to become confident with partnering skills.
Character dance is a specific subdivision of classical dance. It is the stylised representation of a traditional folk or national dance.
Classes develop the imagination and creative response in each dancer, and an understanding of the choreographic process.
Students need to learn specific character roles, this is a facet of theatre and drama in ballet and dance.
Focused tutelage on both classical technique and contemporary repertoire. Solo work is guided and honed.
With a highly selective admissions and audition process, students on the course are surrounded by peers who share the same dreams and ambitions. Pairing this with caring and nurturing directors is a perfect recipe for students to thrive and grow together.
Operating directly within a private secondary school with boarding facilities allows our students to not only maximise their training and studio time, but also to ensure they remained focused on their traditional studies.
Focused on academic excellence, our students not only thrive in a curriculum filled with dance but are also educated within a facility that encourages growth and success. All our ballet students take advantage of a full education curriculum within the specialised Moorland Private School campus.
Students aged 11-14 train full-time in classical ballet alongside their regular academic studies. Our ballet classes are integrated into the academic timetable, with admission onto the course via audition only.
Students receive a bespoke programme with the benefits of limited admissions resulting in small class sizes. Focusing on quality of over quantity allows our teachers to work closely with students and allows for personal mentoring time and individual technique coaching.
Students attend a Ballet technique class each weekday and Saturday mornings, continued attention is given to co-ordination, musicality and artistry. Students focus on a deeper understanding of posture and alignment, and are encouraged to become intelligent, self-motivated, confident dancers, whom are aware of their bodies.