WELCOME TO MEZZO DANCE COMPANY
Mezzo Dance Company is a community dance company, celebrating diversity and inclusion, in a safe, professional environment for children and young adults to learn, grow and be inspired to reach their goals and personal aspirations.
MDC strives to offer industry leading classes for children and young adults in a huge range of styles, enabling our students to become well-rounded dancers with all the skills and tools they will need to thrive and achieve their dreams.
Within our school, dancers are given endless opportunities to perform, grow and develop their skills. Every student has the chance to take accredited examinations in their style, perform in our theatre shows, join our competitive team, embrace tv opportunities or simply dance for the love of dancing.
Mezzo Dance Company aspires to be a national leader in Dance and Acrobatics coaching, recognised for our professionalism, nurturing environment and the success of our students and innovative faculty of staff.
OUR CLASSES
FREESTYLE
Here at MDC, we have a hugely successful Freestyle competition team. Freestyle was the beginning of MDC, and we continue to deliver industry leading training in Freestyle and Slowdance to some of the countries top champions. Freestyle is an upbeat, energetic style of dance, challenging dancers through fast paced jumps, turns, kicks and diverse steps. It is the trendiest and most popular style of dance in the UK today, and here at MDC we are so passionate about the dance style as it produces the most driven individuals, with incredible work ethic and the ability to perform and deliver under competitive pressure, a very sort after skill required in a professional dancer. Our competition team compete worldwide.
ACROBATIC ARTS
MDC are an Acrobatic Arts certified studio, offering classes from beginner to advanced level for boys and girls ages 4-18yrs. Our classes are split by Level, ensuring each dancer is encouraged to reach their personal potential, regardless of age.
The Acrobatic Arts program is designed to teach dancers a complete understanding of AcroDance and is based on the five divisions: Flexibility, Strength, Balancing, Limbering, Tumbling
The syllabus is currently based on 350 skills across 12 levels and is constantly updated to ensure it is comprehensive.
Acrobatic Arts is essential two skills in one program – the art of dance and the skill of the acrobat.
STREET DANCE
A fun recreational class, our streetdance is open to boys and girls ages 4+, with classes split by age. Street Dance is a general term that describes a variety of dance styles. Its origin can be traced back to the early 19th century as it is heavily influenced by Folk, Tap, and Jazz Dance moves. The cultural significance of Street Dance is that it is derived from, and championed by, everyday people and communities ‘in the street’, as opposed to being crafted in a dance studio environment. Our streetdance classes aim to increase confidence and musicality, while exploring different areas of the style including popping, hiphop, house and BBoying.
MINI STAGE STARS
This class is perfect for mini budding stars, who love perform. Our Mini Stage Stars, is a fun and friendly class for boys and girls ages 4-7years, building the foundations of a performer. Explore different styles of dance each week including Freestyle, Jazz, Tap, Lyrical & Musical Theatre, building confidence, musicality and co-ordination. After our mini stage class, dancers can progress on to style specific classes, having learnt all the foundations needed to succeed.
CONTEMPORARY
Contemporary Dance is characterized by a free-flowing and natural form of expression. In the mid-1950s, it took on a life and identity of its own, and has since become a staple in the commercial dancers’ repertoire. Here at MDC, we offer contemporary dance for both Beginner and Advandced dancers, Open to boys and girls ages 7-18yrs. Contemporary Dance is used across many different kinds of productions, both on the West End and within a commercial setting. Due to its flexibility and organic fluidity, it can deliver a truly unique dance style that is often driven by a strong emotional narrative, expressed and interpreted by the dancer.
BALLET
Ballet is as much an art as it is a dance. It combines beauty, expression, and drama in quite a unique way, enchanting audiences since the 15th century. Here at MDC, we have Ballet available for boys and girls from ages 3 right up to 18, with classes split by grade. Ballet is the dance on which virtually all other dances are built. It strengthens the body and develops posture, grace, and balance. One of the ways that agents or directors can filter out unsuitable commercial dancers at auditions is to ask an entire group to perform Ballet moves so it is crucial for any dancers wishing to continue a career in performance.
TAP
Tap dance is a style of dance characterized by using the sound of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. It blends performance and musicality and is an essential part of well rounded dancer seeking a career in the arts. Tap combinations build strength in the legs and feet, in addition to increasing flexibility in hips, knees and ankles. Here at MDC, our tap classes are for girls and boys ages 7-18yrs.
COMMERCIAL
Commercial dance is the style danced in pop artists live shows, music videos and movies. There are many different styles of dance that are worked into the commercial style of dance including hip hop, jazz, locking, popping, contemporary and more. It is a combination of self expression, energy and passion and is the most performed dance style worldwide. Here at MDC, we offer commercial classes for both beginners and advanced dancers, ensuring all reach personal potential and the highest self development.
PERFORMERS OPEN CLASS
This class is aimed at dancers that want to further their field and explore the art of a proffesional career in performing arts. Each week of the month, MDC brings you a new class, with an industry expert. Each week we rotate through Singing, Drama, Audition Prep and A special guest workshop in a new dance style for the dancers to push themselves to become an allround competitive performer. This class is vital for those wanting to head into west end shows, proffesional commercial work, or any other performing arts career.
BODY CON
Body Con
A challenging and essential class for all dancers wishing to reach their potential blending cardio and resistance to an energetic beat to work the entire body. A full body workout, focusing on the key muscle groups, to strengthen, condition and improve cardiovascular health. Dancer specific, our Body Conditioning classes and tailored for our students ensuring their bodies are physically fit enough to safely perform the physical demands within dance minimising the risk of injury and improving the quality of movement.
STRETCH
Stretch
An essential part of a dancers training, our stretch classes are tailored to push each student to their individual potential, lengthening muscles, improving mobility and increasing flexibility. Each class will focus on different muscle groups, catered to improving the dancers ability to perform key dance steps.
TECHNIQUE
Technique
Technique is the basis of all fundamentals of dance, from holding your body correctly while performing, to executing skills properly to progress to routine.
Strong technique extends across all areas of dance, regardless of the style of dance studied.
BEGINNER DANCE
An all round fun and friendly class, for the dance loving individual. Explore a mix of styles, in a fun recreational class. Open to boys and girls ages 6-12yrs, dancers still have the same opportunities as all other styles, but in a non pressured nurturing way to build passion and the fundamentals of dance.
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