All our classes are taught by highly qualified teachers. We believe that students should be given the chance to experience and train to the highest level in a range of dance styles allowing them to become versatile performers in an ever-changing dance world.
All classes offer opportunities to take dance examinations with IDTA/RAD/ISTD/NATD/Acrobatic Arts (ucas points are awarded for vocational grades)
This classical style of expressive movement has something to offer for everyone. Ballet for pleasure or for the more serious-minded, this classical style has something to offer everyone.
Ballet dates back to the 17th century and the conventional steps, grace and fluidity of movement are still found in Ballet today. Choreographers have been influenced by composers through the ages. Ballet has a technique which is the foundation of all dance.
A gentle, rhythmical and enjoyable way to keep fit! Tap is rhythm – rhythm is tap. Its origins are many and varied.
Americans claim its origin dates from the African Jazz age. The Irish stake their claim to the Jigs and Step Dancing. The English relate back to northern Clog Dancers but whichever one chooses to believe, Tap is as popular today as it was in the heyday of the great Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly musicals.
Varying rhythms and styles for fun musical interpretation. Modern Jazz is fun. You will learn to develop many different movements reaching to a broad choice of varying rhythms and musical styles.
Classes are structured to begin to prepare the physical strength and flexibility required to demonstrate emotion through the interpretation of any musical genre. One minute you may be dancing to the rhythm of a drum, the next to a funky jazz style. You may explore the contrast between expansion and relaxation or learn to isolate in a slick stylish mood.
Creating elegant, acrobatic routines. With inspiration from gymnastic floor work and rhythmic gymnastics, this dance style incorporates acrobatic movement into elegant flowing routines, with creative, expressive lifts and poses. Requiring strength, flexibility and technique.
Cheerleading combines a variety of dynamic performance skills. High-energy moves – including tricks and stunts, plus motivational cheers and chants – make this a vibrant and lively dance style. Routines require strength, flexibility and technique all of which are taught in these classes.
An improvisational, hip-hop inspired, active dance style. Street Dance is improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.
The hip-hop dance style B-boying, and the funk-style Popping and Locking, are some of the most popular Street dance styles. These forms of hip-hop dance are the most prominently practiced, and commercialised versions have been professionally developed and choreographed for dance routines in pop, hip-hop, electronic, and R&B music videos. Street dance has evolved between people in a social environment, dancers create their own style and moves.
Contemporary dance stresses versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict, structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dancers focus on floor work, using gravity to pull them down to the floor. This dance genre is often done in bare feet. Contemporary dance can be performed to many different styles of music.
We offer regular materclasses in commercial dance. Commercial is a strong and sexy style with elements of street and sometimes jazz. Alot of the dancers on music videos and MTV are classed as commercial dancers. Routines will be danced to the latest pop, r’n’b and chart music. Think Ciara, Rhianna, Britney, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and The Pussycat Dolls.
We accept students at the Academy from ages 2yrs+ . A range of Pre-school classes are offered in Ballet, Gymnastics (Gym Totz) and fundamental movements of Street Dance and Cheerleading (Totz in Motion). We follow the ‘Melody Movement and Early Learning’ programme, encouraging students to build their confidence and learn lots of new and exciting dance steps.
We offer a range of adult dance classes from beginner to advanced level. We have classes available for adults in Ballet, Commercial/Hip Hop and Pom Dance These classes are great if you would like to learn to dance. If you have experience we also have classes that cater for the more experienced dancer.
Dancers find this an excellent form of exercise, using the Swiss ball to reinforce training and technique through muscle memory. Especially good for turn out and core stability. Progressing Ballet Technique is an innovative program designed for students to understand the depth of training muscle memory in achieving their personal best in classical ballet.
Dance in Motion Academy
Byre Court
Sandys Road
Malvern
WR14 1JJ
Studio No: (01684) 893119
Studio Mobile: 07969858230
Email: info@danceinmotion.co.uk
