AJ Centre For Dance - Take The Opportunity Take The Floor

Welcome to AJ Centre For Dance

Take classes to develop, create and perform.

You will:

– Build technical skills, fitness and performance confidence
– Work towards exams and performances in professional venues
– Build friendships and a sense of belonging
– Maximise your body’s potential

Jazz

An upright, angular style, rooted in kicks, turns and traditional musical style movement.

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Urban

A commercial dance style, much like the kind of movement seen on music videos. A fast paced movement style involving isolations, strong shapes and smooth transitions.

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Contemporary

An expressive and physical style, with lots of expansive movements and shifting in and out of the floor. The movement aims to tell a story and communicate emotion.

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Bounce Dance Fit

A choreographed dance fitness class based on hip hop, waacking, commercial, house and vogueing.

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Tinys

A structured dance class, consisting of several short exercises, games and dances to develop movement memory, rhythm, technique and balance.

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Relaxed Class

Dance for children with additional needs age 6-12

A structured dance class focused on developing rhythm, co ordination, performance confidence, movement memory and storytelling through movement. Classes take place in the professional studio with fully sprung floor.

Although there is disabled access to the building, there is no lift access to the studio upstairs so good mobility is essential.

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Over 50s

A structured dance class focusing on raising the heart rate and improving fitness as well as developing an awareness of technique and alignment. Exercises focus on different areas of the body to target each separately. Dances build week on week to build a sense of achievement and performance confidence.

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Due to my experience, I know the importance of the correct environment and as a result have a fully sprung floor.

The Centre offers classes in Jazz, Contemporary and Urban dance for ages 4-17. All classes follow a structure of technique development for safe alignment and aesthetic accuracy, leading onto the development of performance pieces suitable to the age group and ability within the session.
Adult classes run in all genres. These classes are aimed at adults who used to dance and would like to start it up again.

UKA Award examinations are available in all genres, by choice of each individual dancer. These exams are held twice a year for those who wish to take part.

Over 50’s dance is also an important part of the weekly timetable. The Centre hosts two classes a week, one rooted in Contemporary technique and the other in Jazz.

The TINYS’ class caters for the small budding dancers from age 2 who wish to explore and develop their skills in dance.

The Relaxed class also gives the opportunity for children with additional needs to enjoy a structured dance class, developing specialised skills in a relaxed environment at a pace to suit their comfort zone.

Bounce Dance fit features at the studio 3 times a week and is a dance fitness class, designed to get the blood pumping and the ‘feel-good’ juices flowing. Work at your own pace in this fantastic Hip Hop, Waacking, Vogueing and Commercial based dance fitness class.