Classes
Classes
Timetable
Saturday Classes at The Priory Witham Academy
8.55am-9.50am: Infant Theatre School (Rec-Year 2)
10.00am-1.00pm: Main Theatre School (Age 7-18)
Monday Classes at Skellingthorpe Community Centre
4.30pm-5.00pm: Tap II
5.00pm-5.45pm: Ballet II
5.45pm-6.30pm: Intermediate Jazz
6.30pm-7.30pm: Advanced Jazz
7.45pm-8.30pm: Adult Street Jazz
Wednesday Classes at St Lawrence School, Skellingthorpe
5.00pm-5.45pm: Senior Street Dance
5.45pm-6.30pm: Advanced Street Dance
Thursday Classes at Skellingthorpe Community Centre
4.15pm-4.45pm: Tap I
4.45pm-5.15pm: Ballet I
5.20pm-6.00pm: Junior Street Dance
6.00pm-6.45pm: Ballet III
6.45pm-7.30pm: Tap III
7.45pm-8.30pm: Adult Tap
Childrens ballet, tap, and jazz groups are based on ability and experience. If you have any questions at all about which class might be the best option for your child, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
About our classes:
Ballet
Ballet gives dancers a solid foundation of technique and helps to improve posture, balance, co-ordination, strength and flexibility. Students aged 9+ will study PBT as part of their classes with JLTA. PBT is an innovative 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.
Jazz
This class is a great way to develop well-rounded dance and performance skills. Classes are spent working on technique and routines equally where we teach high energy technical combinations and cover a variety of jazz styles including street jazz, musical theatre, lyrical jazz and contemporary.
Tap
Tap is a popular and impressive dance style that helps build and improve musicality, rhythm, co-ordination and stamina. As well as doing syllabus work in classes, the students will learn fun dance routines that incorporate a wide variety of genres including musical theatre, street and jazz.
Street Dance
Street dance is a very popular style among children, teenagers and adults as it is something they see often in music videos, television programmes, films and more recently on stage in the West End. Street dance incorporates a range of styles including commercial, hip-hop, popping and locking and house. Our street dance classes are performance based, although a strong technical background will also compliment this style of dance.
Infant Theatre School
Our Infant classes cover all aspects of performing arts and are aimed at children who are in school years Reception-Year 2. During these sessions the children learn and perform songs, make up stories, learn dance routines to pop songs and songs from stage and screen, act out scripts and play games, as well as putting on regular shows and presentations to parents. Our main aim is for the children in this group to have fun and build confidence whilst learning new skills in preparation for them to move up to the Main School when they go into Year 3.
Main Theatre School
Our Main School classes are aimed at children aged 7-18 years old. Students are split into 3 groups according to age and in a typical session each group takes part in a singing, drama and dance class on rotation. In their groups the students work on dance routines (covering genres including street dance, jazz, musical theatre), drama pieces (such as monologues, duologues, script and improvisation work), and songs (these can be musical theatre, pop, ballads etc including solo and group harmony work), all tailored to the students age range. There are also lots of opportunities throughout the year to take part in professional shows with touring companies at the Theatre, and to audition for professional representation.
*All students are invited to take part in our annual Variety Show each year, where they get to showcase their hard work at the New Theatre Royal!*
All of our classes are run by trained industry professionals in a safe, friendly and welcoming environment.
2023-2024 Term dates
Term 1.1 starts Wednesday 6th September 2023
Term 1.1 ends Saturday 21st October 2023
Half term Monday 23rd October-Saturday 28th October 2023
Term 1.2 starts Monday 30th October 2023
Term 1.2 ends Thursday 14th December 2023
Christmas holiday Friday 15th December 2023-Friday 5th January 2024
Term 2.1 starts Saturday 6th January 2024
Term 2.1 ends Saturday 10th February
Half term Monday 12th February-Saturday 17th February 2024
Term 2.2 starts Monday 19th February 2024
Term 2.2 ends Thursday 28th March 2024
Easter holiday Friday 24th March-Friday 12th April 2024
Term 3.1 starts Monday 15th April 2024 (inset day for a lot of students)
Term 3.1 ends Saturday 25th May 2024
NO CLASSES MONDAY 6TH MAY 2024 – BANK HOLIDAY
Half term Monday 27th May-Saturday 1st June 2024
Term 3.2 starts Monday 3rd June 2024
Term 3.2 ends Saturday 20th July 2024
Summer holiday Monday 22nd July-Tuesday 3rd September
Dates for your diary
Sunday 14th July 2024: Variety Show Tech Rehearsal
Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st July 2024: Variety Show
To book a free trial session, or for more information regarding any of our classes, please do not hesitate to contact us here.