Eloquent Dance Academy

Eloquent Dance Academy

Eloquent Dance Academy was founded in 2002 by Principal Vicki Stevenson. The Academy now in its 21st year prides itself in being a very professional, yet fun and very welcoming Dance School in Hinckley Leicestershire. Vicki teaches within the Academy alongside her team of highly qualified and knowledgable teachers. All Teachers at Eloquent are fully CRB checked, trained in first aid & safeguarding at level 3 along with being Dance teacher qualified with internationally recognised governing bodies ISTD, IDTA & RAD. The school offers optional examinations in Tap, Ballet, Modern & Musical Theatre from Grade 1 upwards with recognised Ofqual qualifications. The School most recently became a Centre for the new Dang Syllabus (previously Urdang London) and now also offer optional examinations in Commercial & Musical Theatre under the Dang.

Eloquent Dance Academy is based at the incredible Centre of Performing Arts Hinckley (COPAH) with outstanding facilities including 3 purpose built dance studios with fully sprung Dance flooring, mirrors and ballet barres, Denon sound systems, 3 changing rooms, waiting lounge/kitchen area, toilets and also additional Music, Singing & Drama studios on the 1st floor. Eloquent feel the environment the students learn to Dance in is important to their learning and how at home and safe they feel when in class. Eloquent are therefore very proud to provide such a great hub of Performing Arts as home to their lessons.

Many opportunities to perform or compete in competitive Dance are available within the school, but all totally optional with no pressure.

The Academy's Competition team have won national and international titles and experienced performing at Disneyland Paris no less than 6 times. Next year sees some of the Dancers travelling to Florida to perform in Disney World. Eloquent proudly encourages performance opportunities for those Dancers wishing to do the most, yet puts no pressure on Dancers wishing to just take lessons as a fun and fulfilling hobby. Eloquent Dancers have performed in many professional productions over the years. We currently have Dancers at the school who have been cast in the professional UK theatre tours of Les Miserables, Annie, & Joseph & his technicolour Dream coat. We also have Dancers who were cast in the professional production of Billy Elliot at Curve Leicester, Nativity the Musical and Professional Pantomimes for both Little Wolf productions & Imagine Theatre in various Midlands Theatres.

Past graduates of the School have successfully gone on to full time Dance training in the U.K's most prestigious Performing Arts training establishments, with Eloquent Dancers gaining places at Urdang, Italia Conti, Bird College, Laine Theatre Arts, Performers College, MADD, Shockout Arts, Base Performing Arts, Expressions Performing Arts, Bodywork Company studios, London Studio Centre, Stella Mann and many more.

Those Dancers who train at Eloquent who do not wish for a Career in Dance, we can safely say leave as young adults with memories to last a lifetime, skills such as team work & discipline & commitment, but most importantly they leave having made the best friends and with a love for Dance. First and foremost we teach children to Dance with no pressure, just passion.

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