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   FUN, PROFESSIONAL DANCE & PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES GIVEN BY FULLY QUALIFIED & REGISTERED TEACHERS

By choosing a qualified teacher you are choosing Quality, Safety, Professionalism & World Class Tuition!

Your local classes around Elstree & Borehamwood for decades...  Whether you want to come for Fun, 
to gain vital life skills or train for a career in the arts... join us & be inspired!

  Principal & Artistic Director 

 Miss Chahna Morgan ​

             RAD Registered Teacher Status, ISTD CDE (Ballet, Modern, Tap),  Acrotrix Teacher, Pilates Dip, MUA Dip, First Aid Dip,   

 Trinity College Diploma (Professional Dance & Teaching), Stella Mann College Dip. Member of Equity & Chaperone licence

The Well Established, Hertsmere Academy of Dance & Performing Arts offers fun & inspiring Dance & Performing Arts classes for Children & Adults in many styles, Including: 

● Classical Ballet / Character (RAD) 
 
● Discovering Repertoire (RAD)

● Modern/Contemporary (ISTD)

● Jazz, Funky Feet, Commercial Street (ISTD)

● Acro-Dance (Acrotrix)


● Tap Dancing (ISTD)

● Singing, Acting, Musical Dance & Creative

   Backstage Design Skills (Trinity)

● Performing Arts (Trinity College)

● Adult classes including:

   Ballet (RAD Discovering Repertoire), Tap     
   Dancing, 
Musical Dance, Pilates & Body   
   Conditioning..

                                        STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE:

 

             Government / Academic recognized Qualifications by doing EXAMINATIONS with the prestigious:



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



                                                                      

             Events, Shows, Productions & Community Events/Fundraisers

           

            Talent Agency / Audition Support for the more serious students. 

           

            Scholarship Programme for talented children to pursue their dreams from struggling families.

     

     

                                             HOW OUR CLASSES CAN HELP YOUR CHILD...                                                     

Whether for Fun to develop important life skills or to pursue as a career, we will help nurture and develop:

● Confidence   ● Health/Fitness  ● Team Spirit & Achieving Common Goals  ● Understanding Safe Techniques

● Cognitive/Physical skills ● Creativity/Imagination ● Co-ordination & Anatomical knowledge  ● Responsibility 

● Dedication/Self Discipline  ● Solve Problems/Challenges  ● Communication Skills  ●Goals & Aspirations

● Individuality/Expression/Opinion  ● Conveyance of Emotions through Performance  ● Encouragement/Empathy   

● Rhythm/Timing/Musical Appreciation  ● Learning from Others  ● New skills  etc..

This is why at Hertsmere Academy we will only have teachers Professionally Trained and Qualified for the job!  

    

                                                                           SUCCESS:

We have year after year of success stories at Hertsmere Academy of Dance & Performing Arts. Students have gone on to study in professional colleges, appear in the West End on TV or Film and are having very successful careers in the business... Here are just 3 of our success stories, please find more in Recent Success & Testimonial

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Successful Ex-Student Karla Crome TV Actress

                                     KARLA CROME 

                               (Professional Actor / Writer)

CREDITS INCLUDE:

* MISFITS (Jess) -  Channel 4    * LIGHTFIELDS - ITV   * MURDER (Coleen) - BBC2 

* PRISONERS WIVES (Aisling) - BBC1       * UNDER THE DOME - CBS  

* HIT & MISS - Sky Atlantic     * YOU ME & THE APOCALYPSE - Sky 1

* LINDA (Alice) - Royal Court Theatre    * AMADEUS (Constanze) - National Theatre * DANCE NATION (Amina) - Almeida Theatre

Episode Writer:  * Hooten & the Lady - Sky One   * Safe, The Stranger  * Screw  Plays Written:  * If Chloe Can (National Youth Theatre)

* Mush & Me (Edinburgh Fringe & Holden Street Theatre, Adelaide) 

'Being a student at this school gave me the confidence and skills needed to begin my pursuit of an acting career. The teachers are, without exception, professionals, who make training- whether for a career in the arts or just for fun, an enjoyable and rewarding experience.'

Successful Ex-Student Ilan Galkoff West End star

                                                  ILAN GALKOFF

                 (Professional West-End Performer / Singer / Actor / Voice Over Artist)        

 

WEST-END/TV/FILM CREDITS INCLUDE:

* ELF! THE MUSICAL (Michael) - Original London Cast/Recording - Dominion

* CHESS - London Colisium   * OLIVER! (Nipper) - UK West End Tour  

* LES MISERABLES (Gavroche) - Queens    * I CANT SING (Little Simon) - Palladium

* MATILDA (Nigel) - Cambridge Theatre   * LEOPOLDSTADT  - West End 

* GOOD OMEN (Brian) - BBC1  THE BRAILLE LEGACY (Louis) - West End

* ORESTEIA - Trafalga Studios  * ADRIAN MOLE - West End   * CHICKENS Sky 1

* SOFIA THE FIRST - Disney   * WIZARDS vs ALIENS CBBC (series 2)

* NOSE - Royal Opera House  * GRANDPA IN MY POCKET (Series 4)

 

'Thanks for your continued support. I am sure you will continue to enjoy watching many of your talented students living their dreams over the years. You have played a big part in everything he does. Encouraging him all the way since he was 3 years old in your ballet class. Even then your spotted the potential! Much love xx'

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                                           JAKE LEIGH GOOCH 

                                       (Professional Dancer/Performer)

CREDITS INCLUDE: 

* KYLIE MINOGUE TOUR     * SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM

* STRICTLY COME DANCING     * XFACTOR    * THE VOICE   *SPICE GIRLS TOUR

* ANT & DEC  Saturday Night Takeaway  *HOUSE of FRASER (advert)

*  MASKED DANCER / SINGER

* MTV and TV performances with artists such as Jason Derulo, Justin Bieber & Beverley Knight, Pussy Cat Dolls. 

LATEST NEWS:

 

What a remarkable term we have had:

                               55 Trinity Musical Theatre Exams ALL awarded DISTINCTION.

                               50 RAD Ballet Exams ALL MERIT & DISTINCTION,

                               40 ISTD Tap, Modern & Jazz Exams, ALL MERIT & DISTINCTION  

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                             Congratulations Everyone!

 

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