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Where this school stops
We do not enter students for a named board's examinations
Graded examinations are run by real organisations, teaching them requires registration, and we do not claim it.
No board named anywhere on this site
Our class levels are our own
Said on the telephone, not after a term's fees
Graded examinations are real, and this school is not registered for them
There are several well-known organisations that set graded examinations in dance and in music. Teaching their syllabus and entering candidates requires a school and its teachers to be registered with that organisation, and that registration is earned and can be checked.
No board's name appears anywhere on this site, on purpose
This school is not presented as holding any such registration, so you will not find a board's name anywhere on this site, our class levels are our own, and no student here is prepared for or entered into a named board's examination.
No examination board is named anywhere on this site. This school is not presented as registered with any dance or music examination board, our class levels are our own, and no student here is entered for a named board's examination.
What that costs you
What that costs you: if your child needs a graded certificate — for a school application, for a programme that asks for one, or because you want the external measure — we are not the school for that part of it, and we will say so on the telephone rather than after a term's fees.
What it buys you
What it buys you: a class whose content is chosen for the students in the room rather than for the requirements of a syllabus with an examination at the end of it, and a teacher who is not managing a calendar of entries.
Where this leaves you
What to do instead
Ask any school you are considering which board they are registered with and ask to see it. A school that is registered will be pleased to tell you. A school that answers vaguely is answering.
No school can tell you what a seven-year-old will be able to do at seventeen, and one that does is selling you something else.
Not here: A great deal of marketing in this trade is built on outcome: the alumni who dance professionally, the students who were accepted somewhere, the percentage who passed something. Those numbers are usually true and almost always meaningless, because the students who go on to do those things were going to be remarkable in any decent school.
What to do instead: Judge a class by watching one. A trial class costs nothing here for exactly this reason: it is the only evidence about a school that is not marketing.
Every class here is entered by enrolling, and every ensemble is entered by turning up.
Not here: No class in this timetable is auditioned. The level bands are about where a student will learn best, not about who is good enough, and a student who is in the wrong one is moved by a conversation rather than by a test.
What to do instead: If you want an auditioned, selective programme — and there are good reasons to want one for a committed teenager — those exist in this city and we will name the ones we rate.
A class is forty-five to seventy-five minutes and an adult must be reachable for every minute of it.
Not here: Students under twelve must be collected from the studio door by a named adult, and we will not release a child to anybody who is not on the form. For students in First Steps an adult stays in the building for the whole class.
What to do instead: If what you need is cover for a working afternoon rather than a class, an after-school programme is the right shape and is regulated differently. We would rather point you at one than take the fee.
We can change what a class asks of a body. We cannot diagnose, treat or clear anybody to return.
Not here: Dance puts load through growing bodies and injuries happen — mostly ankles, knees and the lower back, mostly from doing too much too soon. Our teachers know a great deal about technique that prevents them and nothing whatever about diagnosing them.
What to do instead: Bring us the restriction rather than the diagnosis. "No jumping for six weeks" is something we can teach around; "her knee hurts" is something we should not be interpreting.
Every image of a student is covered by a consent that a guardian gave and can withdraw.
Not here: Photography and filming inside the studios by parents, students or visitors is not permitted at any time, including in the corridor through the window into Studio A. This is not about our images; it is that a photograph of one child is a photograph of eleven others.
What to do instead: If you want a photograph of your own child dancing, ask. We will arrange five minutes in an empty studio, which produces a better picture than a phone in a dark theatre ever will.
Fall Term 2026 · enrolment open · one free trial per student per discipline
Book a free trial class, or enrol for the term
A trial is a real class and the student joins in. It is the only evidence about a school that is not marketing, which is why it costs nothing. If the class you want is full you will be offered the waiting list instead, with the position you would be in — a number, not a promise to be in touch.
