Schools

What can we offer? 

Your young people are at the heart of what we do here at Dance City! 

Our delivery ensures that all young people are: 

  • Physically active and creative, aiding to their health and wellbeing. 
  • Developing in confidence and self-esteem. 
  • Gaining knowledge and insight about a variety of themes linked to the creative curriculum. 
  • Developing self-expression, independence, and initiative. 
  • Enhancing their understand of arts and culture through dance. 
  • Achieving and succeeding through educational, fun and enjoyable dance delivery. 


Why work with Dance City?

  • We have been teaching dance in schools for over 30 years. 
  • We work with an extensive range of highly skilled dance artists. 
  • We are leaders in our field. 
  • We know how to create high quality, fun, inspiring and engaging dance lessons. 
  • Our packages and delivery can help your school achieve your goals. 
  • We can help your school on the journey to becoming an Arts Mark school. 
  • Our offers provide opportunities for achievement and success for all. 
  • Delivery can take place in your school, or you can come and dance with us here in our purpose build dance house in the heart of Newcastle.  

Packages

A fantastic dance package allowing young people to CREATE, PERFORM and CELEBRATE dance as part of a curriculum and extra-curricular offer, whilst offering teachers the opportunity to further their understanding of how to teach high quality dance lessons through tailored CPD sessions, helping to build confidence and idea generation.  


‘IGNITE’ Package

‘IGNITE’ brings dance to you step by step and is guaranteed to get your young people and teachers moving, learning, having fun and engaged in dance. Delivered by our highly skilled, qualified dance artists, and tailored to the specific needs of your school. 

Do you want your young people and teachers to…

  • Experience high quality dance lessons?  
  • Develop physical, stylistic, interpretative and creative skills? 
  • Learn from dance industry professional artists? 
  • Work with the dance agency for the Northeast? 
  • Develop physical, stylistic, interpretative and creative skills? 
  • Learn from dance industry professional artists? 
  • Work with the dance agency for the Northeast? 
  • YES, then ‘IGNITE’ is for you! 

What’s included? 

Curriculum Delivery
Delivery would take place over 12 weeks, working with x2 classes per week tailored to your school’s curriculum. Lessons are progressive taking children and teachers through a scheme of work.  

Extra-Curricular Delivery

Delivery would take place over 12 weeks, working with a group of children from any key stage. We would develop a piece of choreography and assist in the sharing/celebration of the piece. The dance style and theme of the piece can be tailored to your school.  

Teacher CPD (Continued Professional Development)

90min-2hour Twilight Session.  

A practical session providing school teachers and teaching assistants with key tools to help deliver imaginative and progressive dance lessons, linking to your creative curriculum. 


‘Dance in a Day’ Package 

With our Dance in a Day packages your young people will work with one of our Dance City Artists to develop their movement and choreographic skills piece. We can deliver this package in two ways – either in your school setting, or at the fantastic Dance City building in Newcastle city centre. 

These flexible packages can be tailored to both primary and secondary schools and are available to book throughout the academic year, with specific topic choices for each term from Divali, international dance day, world book day, mental health awareness day, world music day, anti-bullying week and many more.  

What’s included?

  • Young people are taught by a high skilled Dance City dance artist. 
  • A variety of topic and dance styles on offer 
  • Bespoke delivery offered 
  • Discover Arts Award 
  • Tour of the Dance City building 
  • Informal Sharing of work achieved 

Please contact our Engagement team at engagement@dancecity.co.uk for further information or to book your schools package today. 

Testimonials  

‘It was my first experience of Dance City.  As head, I know that dance lessons had been going on….I had seen bits and bobs.  However, I was absolutely gobsmacked when I saw not only my school but the overall performance.  The quality and messages were superb. I’m sure we`ll be working with Dance City again.’ 

‘Excellent – very skilful delivery of the dance workshops pitched at the children’s level and led with a great deal of energy, humour and understanding of how to move the children on.’ 

‘The team were brilliant with the planning and communication regarding the event I knew exactly where we had to be, at what time, doing what activity and how much it would cost.’

Please contact our Engagement team at engagement@dancecity.co.uk for further information or to book your schools package today.  

Complimentary Offer 

Any package booked a school would get one FREE CAT workshop for year 5 year through to year 10 and a FREE BA workshop for year 11 through to year 13. Find out more about or CAT programme and BA Hons Professional Dance below.

CAT

Dance City’s Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) is part of the Department for Education’s Music and Dance Scheme offering Contemporary and Street Dance training to young people across the North East.

To find out more about the CAT, click here.

BA (Hons) – Professional Dance

Choose Dance City for our BA (Hons) Professional Dance and benefit from world class teaching and facilities in the heart of vibrant Newcastle upon Tyne – consistently ranked in the top ten best cities for students in the UK. Our unique programme has been designed by leading dance professionals to prepare you for a varied and multi-faceted career, ensuring you are able to thrive in a range of roles and settings within the dance sector and beyond.

To find out more about our BA, click here.