Explore our wide range of dance classes for children by age including ballet, tap, modern, lyrical, jazz, musical theatre, and acro dance. Find the perfect class to suit your child’s age, interests, and skill level in a supportive, fun environment.
Learn more about each dance style including popular and famous dancers and musicals as well as the dance exam syllabus we follow in our classes.
Leap Dance Midlands offers Ballet and Dance classes for children of all ages. From Toddlers to Adults classes. Find out more about our classes below.
Children’s Ballet and Dance Classes
Royal Academy of Dance technique and training is at the heart of our classes. The RAD are internationally recognised and are one of the world’s most influential and respected dance organisations, known for professional standards and quality teaching. Our classes are suitable for beginners and those that have danced before. All of classes are fun and sociable, whilst developing co-ordination, social skills, confidence, health, fitness and well-being.
Our children’s classes include a range of dance styles to inspire your child including ballet, modern, tap and musical theatre. We follow the syllabus of the ISTD and I-Path to give your child the chance to experience a wide range of dance styles and genres.
I-PATH is designed by global industry experts to reflect the ever-evolving world of performance. Through I-PATH, we’re able to offer a wide variety of classes that blend traditional technique with a new, modern, innovative syllabus — inspiring children to develop confidence, creativity, and a love of performing in a supportive environment.
Find out more about each dance style below. Our acrobatic dance classes follow the syllabus of the world’s most trusted acrobatic syllabus Acrobatic Arts.
Our Musical Theatre class includes drama, singing and modern dance. It’s an all round Performing Arts class using acting, song and dance to develop their self-confidence and performance skills.
Little Leapers- Toddler Classes
Ages 1, 2 and 3. An introduction to dance for toddlers and their grown ups. A fun and friendly class that introduces your toddler to the joys of dance, music and song. This class develops their co-ordination skills, social skills and musicality. This gives you the perfect opportunity to bond with your child whilst getting fit and meeting new parents and grandparents.
Preschool Dance Classes
A fun and friendly class for children ready to join in without their grown up. This is a creative movement class, usually from aged 3 upwards. This class gives your child an introduction to the movements that develop into dance steps. This class uses props, themes and imaginative dance to develop your child’s imagination, creativity and confidence. It also develops coordination, balance, social skills, confidence and creativity.
Primary Dance Classes
The Primary class includes ballet, tap and modern following the Royal Academy of Dance and ISTD syllabus with free creative dance. This class allows the children to learn a range of dance styles including ballet, tap, and modern developing technical skills, confidence and creativity in dance.
The RAD and ISTD syllabus has been designed in line with a child’s developmental stages and by world experts. They are the syllabus used by professional ballet and stage schools including The English National Ballet School, the Royal Ballet School and Elmhurst Ballet school who all take vocational exams with the RAD.
Junior Dance Classes
The Junior class is for children aged 6 and above. We continue to follow the exam syllabus of the RAD and ISTD dance organisations. The Junior classes are a combination class including ballet, tap, modern, character and musical theatre. This allows the children to experience a range of different dance styles and is designed to allow them to perform with confidence and creativity. As well as exam work we do lots of creative free work and workshops within our classes to inspire and develop your child’s imagination and ability to learn and try new choreography.
Intermediate Classes
Our newest class for our oldest dancers aged 8 and above. We focus on more advanced dance syllabus and technique. The class includes RAD ballet and ISTD tap and modern and is suitable for children aged 8 and above. This class is a combination class and includes ballet, tap, modern, character and musical theatre. The class includes an introduction to different modern dance styles including street, lyrical and contemporary dance. This allows the children to experience a range of different dance styles and is designed to allow them to develop their self confidence and performance skills.
Dance Styles
Ballet
Ballet is a highly technical dance form and is a classical style of dance but is a also fun to perform. Ballet is characterised by graceful and flowing movements, balances, turns and jumps. It helps with posture, poise, co-ordination and musicality. It is often described as being the technical foundation for all dance forms.
We follow the syllabus of the Royal Academy of Dance.
Tap
Tap is an exciting and rhythmical dance. The feet strike the floor using tap shoes to make a sound. Tap shoes have metal plates on the toes and the heels to allow the shoes to make a sound. Tap is seen in musicals including 42nd Street, Crazy for You and Stomp and Tap Dogs. Tap was extremely popular in the era of the Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly musicals and is all about rhythm. Tap has lots of different styles and is great fun and energetic too.
We follow the syllabus of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance ISTD and International Performing Arts and Theatre I-Path
Modern
Modern is a highly energetic dance form and includes travelling steps, high kicks, leaps and turns. Modern needs strength and flexibility to perform its steps with a sense of theatrical performance and style. Modern uses a range of movements and musical styles to develop a sense of performance and musicality. It is a highly expressive dance form and can include a fast paced jazz style to a soft lyrical contemporary piece.
We follow the syllabus of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance ISTD and International Performing Arts and Theatre I-Path
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre is Performing Arts that includes dance, singing and drama. It usually includes modern dance with more expression to act out the part or story of the musical. Famous musicals include Annie, Phantom of the Opera, Hairspray, Chicago, Miss Saignon, Matilda the Musical and West Side Story. Musical theatre is so useful to help build a child’s confidence and give them the courage to try out and act out different characters through music and dance. It also helps to develop a sense of performance and learn a range of musical and dance styles.
Acrobatic Dance
Acrobatic dance is a fusion of the artistic motion of dance combined with the athleticism of acrobatics and gymnastics. It develops a dancers strength and flexibility and will enhance the dance styles we already teach. Acrodance develops flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering, tumbling and partner and group stunts. We follow the syllabus of Acrobatic Arts, the world’s most trusted acro dance syllabus.
Street, Hip Hop and Commercial Dance
Street and Commercial hip hop includes all the latest moves to energetic music. It’s a fast paced dance style which encourages personal expression and creativity. This dance style encourages self expression and creativity whilst exploring old skool moves as well as current commercial dance moves to a wide range of musical styles.
‘My son loves his sessions and asks if he can do it all again. He is enjoying it very much and looks forward to it every week.’
She really enjoyed the acro class, thank you for making her feel so welcome.
She really enjoyed herself today, I asked her on the way home if she wanted to go again and she said “YESSSSS”
‘Elaine really has a passion for ballet and that shows in every lesson. I love the classes I attend every week and can’t recommend them enough!’
“She came out of the class with such joy. She said she can’t wait to do it again!”
Thank you for being incredibly welcoming and looking after him so well.
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