UK Performing Arts Directory

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Firststeps School of Dance

Fixation Academy of Performing Arts is a performing arts school with campuses in North London and Hertfordshire. It offers dance, drama and singing classes for children and young people and runs holiday camps and show-in-a-week programmes. The academy emphasises creativity, teamwork and confidence, and its camps include performing arts activities and themed events.

Flash Dance Floors

Fleur Estelle Belly Dance is a Covent Garden-based school founded by internationally acclaimed belly dancer Fleur Estelle. The school offers in-studio belly dance courses across six levels, from beginners to advanced, with 8- or 10-week terms priced around £140 per course. Classes take place at 9 Endell Street and are taught by Fleur and her team, many of whom have progressed through the school’s teacher-training programme. In addition to studio courses, Fleur Estelle Belly Dance provides online Zoom classes, tutorials, costumes, teacher training and performance opportunities. The school promotes healing through movement and welcomes adults seeking fun, fitness and artistic expression.

Footworks Dance Academy, founded by Melina Stylli in 2010, provides training in ballet, tap, contemporary, street dance, acro gymnastics and musical theatre. Classes are offered from age 2.5 through adults in a fun yet structured environment, following the I‑PATH syllabus for ballet and tap. Fully qualified and DBS‑checked teachers help students build confidence and technique, and pupils have opportunities to perform in festivals, competitions and bi‑annual shows.

Forever Dance UK

Forró Family

Give Into Dance

Grafton Dance Centre in Dulwich Village offers a wide range of dance and wellbeing classes for children and adults. Adult classes include ballroom and Latin American dance, flamenco, tai chi, pilates and yoga; children’s classes cover ballet, tap, ballroom and Latin, and there are wedding dance and social dancing sessions. The centre also hires its studio and garden for private events and children’s parties.

Hampstead Ballet School, founded in 2003 by Anastassia Uspenskaya and Andrey Alekseyev, offers classical ballet training in spacious Hampstead studios. The school draws on the Russian Vaganova tradition, with teachers holding the highest qualifications and professional stage experience. Classes range from joyful movement and annual performances for children as young as two to structured training and professional coaching for advanced dancers, with free trial lessons and examinations by Vaganova specialists. Adult classes are offered for beginners to advanced students, focusing on posture and fitness.

Hasina Belly Dance