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Twinkle Toes Ballet
Ballet Dance Classes in Buckingham. In this introduction to Ballet for our littlest learners, your tiny dancer’s dreams of becoming a beautiful ballerina or a handsome prince come to life. We take them on a magical 30-minute journey each week, teaching them basic ballet steps in a fun, make-believe world.
From the first plie to their final curtain call on stage, your little one will come to appreciate the great joy that comes from dancing –and this is their first step into that wonderful world.
Musical Mites
This class is a fantastic first taste of Musical Theatre, and introduces little ones to performing in a gentle and engaging way, with an emphasis on fun from start to finish. It’s a bopping, dressy, dancy session, perfect for wannabe performers.
Our teaching style prompts the early development of self-respect, self-confidence and positive self-image, and helps the children become comfortable interacting with others of their own age.
Tippy Toes Tap
Your child’s Tap journey begins here: a light-hearted class which explores the basic steps of Tap as a simple introduction to the genre. There are weekly rewards and lots of encouragement, with fun songs to help them remember their little Tap steps and develop their confidence.
Tots Groovers Funky Dance
(Modern and Street Dance Basics)
This high-energy class will be the highlight of your child’s week at PWA! These kids show off to popular, age appropriate tunes and express themselves in a fun-filled and encouraging environment that makes our dancers forget they’re learning. They will be jigging and a-bobbing to popular sounds, and taking part in a great little workout to use up all that excess energy. All of this activity also gives them the basics of rhythm and movement –an essential foundation for Modern and Street dancing.
LITTLE STARS
5-6 on Saturday mornings at sir Thomas Fremantle school ( 9-10am )
In Little Stars, your child will explore the world of musical theatre by diving deeper into singing, acting, and dancing. With every class, they’ll gain confidence, develop friendships, and enhance their creativity through group role plays and fun performances. Our focus on the LAMDA acting syllabus helps prepare children for exams in a stress-free, playful environment, nurturing their natural talents while building skills that go far beyond the stage.
Dance Stars Ballet/Modern/Tap
Primary Ballet at Buckingham on Thursday 5-5:30pm
Dance Stars introduces your child to ballet, modern, and tap in an exciting, supportive environment. In this class, they’ll begin mastering travelling steps, kicks, and turns while building confidence and exploring their own movement. With each step, your child will learn the fundamentals of dance and discover the joy of self-expression through music and rhythm.
Pop Stars Dance Crew
Friday 5-5:30pm
Your child will love Pop Stars Dance Crew, a high-energy class where they can express themselves to their favourite tunes. This fun-filled environment encourages confidence and individuality while learning age-appropriate choreography. It’s the highlight of the week for our young dancers who love to move, groove, and show off their skills!
Little Groovers Funky Dance
(Modern and Street Dance Basics)
In this beginners’ class we create a fun and encouraging learning environment, in which we teach the basic understanding of Modern dance technique. These little dancers bop, skip, and jig to modern sounds, ensuring that we build their co-ordination, and develop their own style and confidence by introducing them to basic dance moves.
Grade 2 Ballet
Our Grade 2 Ballet class helps young dancers refine their technique and build upon their foundational skills. With a focus on self-discipline and body awareness, this class lays the groundwork for more advanced ballet movements. Students will grow in confidence as they master the physical and artistic challenges of ballet.
Tap grade 1 and 2
Tap introduces young dancers to the rhythm and technique of tap dancing in an engaging, supportive environment. This class focuses on the basics of tap while encouraging creativity and individuality. It’s a fun and energetic way for your child to develop rhythm, coordination, and a love for dance.
Modern Grade 2/4
In Grade 4 Modern, young dancers will begin to explore more advanced modern dance techniques, with a focus on personal style and artistic expression. This class challenges students to grow both physically and artistically, helping them develop confidence in their abilities while honing their technique.
Group Musical Theatre
Group Musical Theatre is the perfect starting point for young performers at the beginning of their senior school journey. This beginner’s class introduces students to the exciting world of acting, singing, and dancing, with a focus on developing core skills in a fun and supportive environment. As children learn to project their voices, improvise, and build characters, they’ll also be encouraged to take LAMDA exams, setting them up for success both on stage and in life. Dance lessons aligned with the ISTD modern dance syllabus provide additional opportunities for skill growth and examination.
Street Wednesday
Our Street Dance class is all about energy, creativity, and individuality. This dynamic and high-energy class introduces children to the exciting world of street dance, teaching them foundational styles while allowing them to express themselves. With the guidance of our skilled instructors, your child will grow in confidence as they explore their own personal style and learn fun routines to their favourite songs.
Flex Wednesday
Our Flexibility Advanced class focuses on improving dancers’ overall flexibility, strength, and mobility. This class is essential for those looking to enhance their dance technique, boost fitness levels, and prevent injury. With a focus on core strength and range of motion, this class will help students move more freely and perform with greater confidence and grace.
North Bucks Youth Theatre
The North Bucks Youth Theatre program is designed for young performers with a passion for the stage. This structured class prepares students for entry into prestigious UK performing arts schools by building on their natural talent and helping them refine their skills in acting, singing, and dancing. With a focus on audition preparation and professional standards, this class gives students the tools they need to succeed in their future performing arts careers.
Acting Class Beginners
The acting classes cover group exercises, games, improvisation, a common approach to technique, understanding and developing relevant characters, and rehearsing pieces in class, plus refining technical skills and artistry and developing better communication skills.
Ballet
This class starts at the barre and develops the basic core skills of Ballet. It focuses on turnout, as well as making the students aware of the perfect posture, use of port de bras and the beginnings of allegro.
Modern Dance
This Modern Grade 1 elementary class begins to work more on the child’s core strength and suppleness in exercises. We also start the basics of jumps and turns, and the vital role of arm and leg placements within them. As their confidence begins to grow, we promote and encourage individual development in solo and performance work within the grade.
Hip Hop
This high-energy class includes popular tunes and lets the children express themselves in a fun-filled and encouraging environment. Hip hop class adds a cardiovascular element to your child’s dance that emphasizes rhythm, musicality, and dynamics.
It’s all about creating well-rounded and diverse dancers, so this class is a transition class to our more technical dance classes in Modern, Jazz, Ballet and Tap. There is a maximum of 15 students in this class.
Acting
The acting classes cover group exercises, games, improvisation, a common approach to technique, understanding and developing relevant characters, and rehearsing pieces in class, plus refining technical skills and artistry and developing better communication skills.
Tap
Torpedo Tappers teaches students to develop single Tap sounds into small routines, whilst also teaching the correct posture for a Tap dancer. Through simple steps beginning with single beats, we build a secure tap technique, and work towards their first graded ISTD Tap examination with their teacher guiding them through the experience.
Flexibility Dance
Modern dance class is a cross between ballet and jazz. We teach the basic understanding of modern dance technique. This will build the children’s co-ordination and develop their style and confidence.These classes include floor work, corner work, rhythm and solo dances.
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre introduces more specific specialties of dancing, singing, acting and performance, whilst still keeping the fun of learning performance skills! Teaching is directed towards introducing and building more technical skills in the three professions, plus developing the voice, improvisation, and projection.
Film & TV Acting
This class teaches modern on-camera acting techniques, where students will learn the foundations of acting training. This class is an introduction to acting for camera versus acting on stage, learning to create characters, work with other actors, and finding out about the director’s use of voice and body.
LAMDA Acting Examination
Preparing for this exam unlocks imagination and creative thinking, refines technical skills in acting, and develops communication skills. Direct benefits are that this discipline nurtures an appreciation of literature, poetry, drama and song, whilst supporting creative, intellectual and social development.
Ballet
These classes develop challenging balletic steps and the syllabus incorporates batterie and allegro combinations. There is more free work given to all students to develop their knowledge of Ballet terms and steps, and this is the beginning of advanced technique.
Modern Dance
Our Modern dance classes are tailored for a dancer that understands the technical expectations of Modern, and will help the student become the best dancer they can possibly be. Limbering and stretching will become a daily routine to ensure they have the correct execution of the syllabus.
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre introduces more specific specialties of dancing, singing, acting and performance, whilst still keeping the fun of learning performance skills! Teaching is directed towards introducing and building more technical skills in the three profession, as well as working on developing the voice, improvisation, and projection.
Acting
The acting classes cover group exercises, games, improvisation, a common approach to technique, understanding and developing relevant characters, and rehearsing pieces in class, plus refining technical skills and artistry, and developing better communication skills.
LAMDA Acting Examination
Preparing for this exam unlocks imagination and creative thinking, refines technical skills in acting, and develops communication skills. Direct benefits are that this discipline nurtures an appreciation of literature, poetry, drama and song, whilst supporting creative, intellectual and social development.
Tap
These classes are for students with a good understanding of Tap vocabulary, use of space and awareness of audiences, and sense of performance. These classes create complex rhythms, and your child will achieve an artistic sense of self-expression through more complex steps and exercises.
Flexibility
It is essential for dancers that they maximise their flexibility and suppleness. Many dancers fail to advance to the next stage because they have not trained sufficiently in this area.
This flexibility class has many benefits: it can improve your performance in dance classes, boost your fitness and transform your lifestyle and overall wellbeing. Led by our specialists, these classes also help strengthen your core, strengthen your muscles and give you more freedom of movement.
Hip Hop
This high-energy class will be the highlight of yourteenagers’ week at PWA! These young teens will be showing off to popular tunes and expressing themselves in a fun-filled and encouraging environment. Hip hop adds a cardiovascular element to your child’s dance week that emphasizes rhythm, musicality, and dynamics.
Film & TV Acting
This class teaches modern on-camera acting techniques, and the foundations of acting training. This class is an introduction to acting for camera versus acting on stage, in which students learn to create characters, work with other actors, and learn about the director’s use of voice and body.
Audition Technique Class
These classes will concentrate the student on learning proven techniques which will enable them to audition for the top Performing Arts Colleges in the UK and USA. Working from solid foundation work in dance, acting and singing, these students will take a clear and structured path to enable natural strengths to flourish and be showcased in an audition.
