At Simone's School of Performing Arts at Berkeley Vale (Tumbi Umbi), our Recreational Dance Classes are perfect for everyone! Choose from our wide range of genres including kids dance classes, preschool dance classes, ballet classes for kids, and more. Whether your child is interested in Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Circus, or Acrobatics, we have a class that will fit your family schedule.
All school-age students are welcome to join our Recreational classes—no experience required! Our programs offer levels from Kindergarten and up, ensuring that every child can find the right fit.
Our recreational program is designed for students who want to explore movement in a positive and creative environment. With highly energetic, qualified, and nurturing teachers, we are dedicated to educating students on the fundamentals of dance while fostering self-confidence and a love for performing arts.
Jazz is an expressive and energetic style of dance that combines current dance moves with popular musical trends. Jazz classes will get your dancers moving, stretching and shaking for a well-rounded and super fun class.
A stylised combination of street funk, hip hop and pop similar to styles seen in music videos, which in addition to being lots of fun, these classes are disciplined, progressive and well structured. It too focuses on lots of fun, confidence-building and expression! It’s all about the groove and the moves!
This is the most rhythmic of the dance forms and is an excellent way to increase coordination of the mind and body and to develop a sense of rhythm, timing and expression. At Simone's School of Performing Arts, students are taught the Glenn Wood Tap syllabus. This dynamic syllabus is structured, modern and a whole lot of fun to learn.
At Simone's School of Performing Arts, students are taught the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus (RAD) in classical ballet. The cleverly structured syllabus engages the children through creative exercises that are designed to build a beautiful, graceful, and healthy body with fine posture and poise.
Contemporary & Lyrical dance is one of our popular dance styles and is a particularly innovative way of moving the body. This form of dance has a very broad and creative vocabulary, and contains movements that are both static and dynamic, lyrical and athletic, that invert, twist, expand and contract. The boundaries of contemporary dance are limitless!
Musical Theatre focuses on expert tuition in training the ‘triple talent’ - voice, acting and dance. The musical theatre class will explore acting exercises, movement for musical theatre and singing. Students will learn songs and dances from popular Broadway shows of yesterday and today.
Simone's School of Performing Arts offers the discipline of acrobatics, with a professional acrobatics/gym teacher and a program specifically designed and developed for dancers. From backbends to handstands, from aerials to flips, acrobatics will teach you all sorts of tricks. All in all, a challenging experience that is heaps of fun and will give students a competitive edge.
Dance Cirque has classes for all ages. Little monkeys from ages 2 -5 year and dance cirque from 5 years to
adult meaning anyone can join in the fun!
Dance Cirque students have so much fun learning new skills and gaining confidence every lesson.