Our Co-Principal & Production Creative, Craig Bartley spending the summer of 2023 performing in The Third Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory in central London. Craig has been working with the eminent British theatre director Sir Trevor Nunn perfoming in the world premiere of a new musical thriller adaptation of the of Graham Greene screen play of The Third Man.…
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Who could ask for anything more
Our Co-Principal & Production Creative, Craig Bartley is back after spending the summer performing in Crazy For You at the prestigious Festival Theatre in Chichester. Craig, who played the part of Mingo, was so thrilled to be part of this prestigious production with a top-notch cast drawn from the cream of British performing talent. Charlie Stemp, who played the lead…
We’re back at festivals and winning medals galore
This Easter 2022 we were thrilled that our pupils did so well in gaining festival medals, for some it was their first ever event. Well done everyone who took part.
Covid procedures and studio safety
Please watch our video guide to understand the new procedures that are expected within our Chatham building.
Heaven & Hell!
This year’s summer show was both heavenly and hellish and totally enjoyable. The whole two hours zipped along with pupils and students performing numerous routines around this theme. Here is just a taster.
Enchanted by Enchantment
In July 2018 the School and College performed their Summer school ‘Enchantment’ and here is just a taster.
So what am I paying for?
We recently saw an online post which was inspired by an article from Shad Martin, who is an online blogger. It has been adapted along the sharing process and we wanted to share this with you too as we think that this very much sums up all the reasons why you, as parents, put so much into time, effort and…
Dance Proms 2017
For the third year running, Craig Bartley, our Executive Producer and College Director, successfully choreographed the finale of the 2017 Dance Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
Here is the final result.
This time the event was hosted by Radzi Chinyanganya with guest performances from the 2017 BBC Young Dancer winner, Nafisah Baba; the A Team from XS Latin Cambridge, and the brilliant Flawless.
Dance Proms is a unique collaborative project between the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) and the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) with the Royal Albert Hall. Sadly after seven fantastic years the Royal Albert Hall has decided not to continue its support for the event.
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Dance Proms 2016
Sunday 30 October saw the staging of Dance Proms 2016 at the Royal Albert Hall and our very own Course Director, Craig Bartley, once again choreographed the spectacular finale.
To round off all the individual performances from tap to jazz, ballet to modern, ballroom to traditional, the 500 plus dancers all came together to perform a single finale routine that Craig had devised for the night and it all looked fantastic.
Take a look here at the final result.