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Acro Dance is fun whilst being challenging and character building. Acro has a strong focus on balance, agility, and motor coordination. ​

Dancers are often exhilarated learning acro dance ‘tricks’ which can enhance choreography for lyrical and contemporary routines. Our Acro teachers are professionally trained and accredited with Acro Arts syllabus based on safe and effective progressions with proven results in five divisions; Flexibility, Strength, Balancing, Limbering and Tumbling.

Hip Hop is a fun and fast street style dance genre that is performed in dance sneakers to ‘popular’ music, usually with dance outfits recognisable as hip-hop culture.

 

Hip Hop is extremely energetic with fast twitch movement. As per other genres, a foundation in ballet technique and Jazz dance assists with quick transfer of weight and 'line'.  Hip Hop  includes a variety of stylistic  techniques such as breaking, locking and popping. CBDS currently runs Junior Hip Hop classes on Saturdays. Intermediate & Senior Hip Hop classes are on Mondays . 

Dance Technique is a required foundation for all dance genres, with the focus on practical applications of fundamentals. Classes are non-performance and compulsory from Junior 2 to Senior levels.

 

These classes are required for dance safety, protocol and an understanding of dance language cues. Dance Technique class enables students to learn efficiently and develop strength and capability for approaching challenging choreography in production classes and competition routines.

Ballet is the foundation for other dance genres and fundamental for any dancer who wants to progress.

 

Classical ballet requires learning specific technique and posture. The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is an international syllabus for classical ballet which specialises in quality dance education and training with optional dance award and exam certificates for progression results and feedback.​​​

 

Jazz dance is based on a low centre of gravity with technical control and high level of energy. Jazz theatrical dance is musical theatre style. Ballet is advised as a foundation for ‘arm and leg line’ but not essential.

 

Jazz Dance is about identifying the soul and spirit of ‘popular’ music, whilst learning body isolations with a strong focus on style, strength, kicks and leaps. CBDS train dancers in the Comdance (CSTD) Jazz syllabus with exam progressions available, allowing students to develop jazz technique to pre professional standard.  

Contemporary is modern dance for the creative and emotive dancer. It  involves a particular technique with stylistic qualities, musical expression and a connection to creating visual imagery. A basic understanding of fundamental ballet technique is required.

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Contemporary dance often combines different levels of standing and floor work with rapid movement through space through leaps, pattern and direction, fall and recovery, contract-release and with elements of lifts and improvisation.

Tap Dance is a percussive, rhythmical form of dance using the sounds of tap shoes on the feet to strike the floor whilst moving through the dance space.

 

The two main styles of Tap dance at CBDS are STREET (focus on musical rhythms) and BROADWAY (musical theatre style). Each have their own style of presentation.  

 

CBDS is renowned for generations of excellence in Tap training, with Miss Bradley being an elite dance student of Gwen Mackey OAM (the original choreographer for CSTD Tap syllabus).