ABOUT OUR CLASSES
We offer varied fun & developmental classes for your child to join at Dickens Heath Studio!
Gymnastics/Acro
Our Gymnastics/Acro classes combine the techniques of both genres.
Gymnastics teaches students to roll, jump, swing and turn upside down. This includes running, jumping, tumbling, somersaulting, flipping and balancing. Gymnastics is an exciting activity and sport for its unique contribution to general fitness, coordination, agility, strength, balance and speed. Gymnastics provides a sound foundation in movement for boys and girls of all ages, encouraging a healthy habit of health & fitness from early in your child's life, supporting laying the foundations for a lifetime.
Acro is defined by its athletic character and its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics. It is a graceful dance technique mixed with acrobatic elements, students will learn coordination, dance steps and musicality to link together gymnastics floor skills, tumbling, contortion and tricks and lifts into exciting sequences. Students will learn how to dance in and out of skills, tricks, stunts and lifts, in a smooth and graceful way.
Beginner Gymnastics - Age 4-6
For students learning new basic skills and use of equipment.
Junior Gymnastics - Age 7-10
For students who have learnt all basic beginner skills and want to build on more skills and tricks.
Improvers Gymnastics - Age 5-12
For students who have some experience who either need to build on their skills or need a more complex level. This class offers assistance for students working towards different needs!
Intermediate Gymnastics - Age 6 - 12
For students with Junior lever skills who are ready to progress further.
Advanced Gymnastics - 8+
For students that have a mature level of Acro and Gym with all levels completed and are working towards comp training. An assessment on the child will need to be made for this level.
Tumbling
Tumbling is a form of gymnastics performed individually, without props or equipment, e.g. flips, somersaults, layouts, handsprings, tuck backs. These are more advanced skills, and require the students to have mastered all the basic skills in gymnastics on equipment and floor.
Students are required to take tumbling as an additional class alongside gymnastics as tumbling requires increased fitness, strength, power and speed to prevent injury. These more advanced skills are developed as the students develop their own core body strength and as they refine all of their own gymnastics skills from training on the apparatus.
Ballet
Our Ballet classes are suitable for boys and girls aged 4 upwards.
Ballet is a wonderful dance style focusing on technique, strength and flexibility. Ballet is great for improving posture, alignment and concentration as well as instilling a great sense of discipline in anyone who participates.
Tap
Tap is a fun and lively dance discipline that requires coordination and a good sense of rhythm.
Our tap classes are for children aged 4 upwards and children will progress from learning the basic tap technique to learning fast and furious step combinations while boosting their musicality.
Cheerleading
At our Dickens Heath Cheerleading classes, we offer a fun, exciting and safe way to develop new skills, such as tumbling, stunting and dance. Cheerleading also promotes valuable life skills such as teamwork, confidence, courage and determination. Our classes are taught by qualified cheer coaches and dance teachers.
Street
'Street dancing' is commonly used to identify many hip-hop styles that began appearing in the U.S in the 1970s and are still evolving within the street and hip-hop culture today. It provides students with the opportunity to explore and develop the skills that are the pure essence of “street” including breaking, locking and popping. The classes aim to build a dancer's strength, stamina and agility whilst enhancing their knowledge and performance of 'street dance'. Dances are performed to fast paced, current pop & hip-hop songs, and is a fantastic way of exercising in a fun, energetic way!
Musical Theatre
Our Musical Theatre sessions are a fun and expressive class incorporating a mixture of dance styles including ballet, tap and jazz. Performing choreographed dances to various broadway and musical songs, musical theatre classes combine the art of dance alongside singing and acting too. We build the children’s confidence to not only dance but to PERFORM!
If you’re looking for exciting exercise classes for your child, then why not join us for a FREE trial!
