Dance

Dance at Mainstream:

• is great fun
• increases physical fitness, agility and poise
• gives the chance to earn regular certificates of achievement
• provides opportunities to dance before an audience
• is excellent grounding for a future dance career

Join in the fastest-growing art form

Dance is one of the fastest-growing performing arts, with nearly five million participants each year in the UK. It is second only to football as the most popular activity in schools, and many teenagers have said they want more dance tuition to be available to them.

Dance is also popular to watch, with recent TV programmes featuring dance styles ranging from ballroom to pop and even ice dance have had huge viewing figures. Here in the north west, the Lowry in Salford is quickly becoming a leading venue for top ballet and contemporary dance companies from around the world to perform in.

Learn skills, have fun and improve the body

Dance is a discipline that can be both challenging to learn and great fun to take part in. It is also a very effective - and enjoyable - method of exercise that has benefits for the heart, lungs, muscles and bones as well as improving coordination, agility, balance, spatial awareness and flexibility and helping to prevent excessive weight gain. It also has many of the social benefits of our drama classes, such as increasing confidence and the ability to work with others towards a common goal.

Several dance styles to choose from

As one of the leading dance centres in the northwest, Mainstream offers a variety of dance disciplines and grades for children of three years old to adult, regardless of ability or previous experience.

Classes are currently available in:

• ballet
• tap
• modern stage
• modern pop / street jazz
• latin american and salsa

Take examinations in all styles at all ages

Show just what you have achieved by taking regular examinations to get nationally-recognised certification for the level you have reached. This can give a great sense of personal achievement, but can also form part of a child's record of achievement to demonstrate their skill, dedication and hard work.

Our main dance classes follow the syllabuses of the National Association of Teachers of Dance (NATD), one of the major UK bodies for dance education and training.

Come along and try out our classes

Join nowTo join any of our dance classes, simply turn up to one of the scheduled classes around fifteen minutes before it starts to register with us. There is no need to book or enrol in advance.

For class times and prices, see our timetables page.