Dance Classes for Kids

Ballet is the basis of all dance styles and develops a child's coordination, flexibility, stamina, posture and balance as well as their creativity.

Within our ballet classes, we focus on the IDTA syllabus, whilst also bringing variety with free work and creative and performance elements.

Ballet is a fantastic foundation for all other genres that we offer at Zest Dance.

Our street dance classes bring together lots of different dance styles whilst enabling children to dance to some of their favourite songs.

They are sure to come away with some moves to teach the family!

This class builds confidence and self-esteem through encouraging freestyle/improvisation and developing the student’s individual style.

Tap dance is an incredible skill for a dancer.

This class develops a student's rhythm, stamina and musicality in a fun environment where they are actively encouraged to make lots of noise!

By working through the IDTA Tap grades and medals, students quickly progress in their strength and coordination whilst gaining a whole vocabulary of tap steps.

This class is all about performing dance within musicals and exploring different styles of dance in Musical Theatre, Pantomime, Cabaret and Jazz.

We work on a combination of the IDTA Theatre Craft syllabus and the IDTA Contemporary Modern Jazz syllabus in the class.

In addition, the children will also learn technique exercises including kicks, turns and leaps as well as a range of different jazz routines to their favourite musical songs.

They'll be box stepping with jazz hands all the way home!

Acro is a style of dance that combines classical techniques with acrobatic elements. While all dance is physical, this form is particularly athletic and has unique choreography due to its use of acrobatics in a dance environment.

Your child will develop their balance, co-ordination, strength, flexibility and tumbling skills!

Within these classes we work on developing the ability to perform seamless acro dance sequences, where the tumbling and skill elements are linked with dance elements.

Our teachers are Acrobatic Arts certified and IDTA trained and therefore we work on a combination of the 2 syllabi in addition to free work.

We focus on developing the strength, flexibility and progressions necessary to build up to performing skills in a safe and controlled environment.