Peel Talent Audition at KS DanceKS Dance was delighted to welcome Paul Ainsworth from Peel Talent and Former KS Dance Head of Jazz now representing Peel Talent Agency, Tracy Baxter for a Graduate Audition for employment in the Commercial Theatre Sector. “Put the music through your body - Don'd Dance...
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Cinderella and KS Dance Showcase 2024 This year KS Productions will be bringing "Cinderella" to The Brindley Theatre, Runcorn. In a re-imagined version of the original story, KS Dance Students will perform this as a feature length production. There will be the usual audience favourites in the Wicked Sisters and...
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Cyril Beaumont Scholarship 2023 1 1 This year the award welcomed Former Soloist with The Royal Ballet, Tierney Heap to adjudicate the scholarship alongside Elizabeth Swan, Chair Cecchetti Society Trust. We were delighted to welcome many guests and supporters of the college to attend the award...
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Winter Choreography Competition 2023 Saturday 9th December 2023 BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE 6.30pm Start Time Audition for KS Dance
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Open Day Bookings Now Available Book Here Take Part in Classes and Experience Our College Atmosphere with all of our Senior Teachers and Coaches Ask Questions and Talk to our Principals and Lecturers about studying at KS Dance. Audition for KS Dance the following day by Booking Now and Applying...
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Newsletter March 2023 Check Out our Latest Newsletter Newsletter March 2023
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Post Graduate Training How can we help further your dance training with Post Graduate Support? When you feel you need a little added extra time when your dance training comes to an end. KS Dance now offers Post Graduate Training and Support. Sometimes 3 years just isn't enough, especially with...
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KS Dance is Host to the Prestigious Cyril Beaumont Cecchetti Scholarship Award. The Cyril Beaumont Scholarship is one of the Autumn Term highlights of the year at KS and even more special this year as we celebrate 100 years of the Cecchetti Method. The ballet historian, author and critic Cyril…
Post Graduate Success We are delighted to share the news of our Post Graduate Chloe Horton, who has secured herself a short contract with Birmingham Royal Ballet, working with the company on BRB's production of Cinderella this July 2021 Chloe has worked extremely hard to achieve her dream of dancing...
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Summer School Registration is NOW open. Course Dates: July 23rd -31st 2021 Every year young dancers train with us and we invite some of the best Professional & Ex Professional Company Dancers and Qualified Teachers the industry has to offer to teach alongside our own highly experienced Faculty. Are you...
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Ten leading professional ballet schools pledge continued support for dance students during 2021 auditions process Following a joint statement issued in summer 2020, ten of the UK’s leading professional ballet schools have announced a unified message of support and reassurance today as hundreds of prospective students consider applications for places...
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KS Dance Is Accepting Applications For Virtual Auditions in January & February. Dancers who are wishing to enter into Full-Time Vocational Dance Training in September 2021, can audition for the college virtually. Contact us now for your Audition Application Form by phone 01925 837 693 or on Email; admin@ksd-online.co.ukKS...
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We had a successful 14 Weeks of Fantastic Dance Classes. When we first opened our doors again in September to our students, we all knew it would be with a slightly different feel to the college. We all re-learnt the ropes quickly and the new procedures that everyone needed to...
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CYRIL BEAUMONT WINNERS 2020 Huge Congratulations to all of the Dancers this year for presenting an incredible Cyril Beaumont Scholarship 2020. With all of 2020's additional factors to tend to and to think about. Our students really danced to their best abilities and gave our Adjudicators Brenda Last OBE, Patron...
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Welcome Back Dancers, Studios are Open! We are so delighted to welcome back all of our students, teachers, musicians and the team of KS Dance this September. Although things are quite different with the Covid-19 measures and social distancing is all in place. The great working atmosphere, dedication and hard...
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Miss Kate Simmons, Principal and Director of KS Dance has stayed personally in close contact and communicated regularly with the families of our dance students throughout lockdown. Keeping them informed of the colleges plans and safety measures being put into place for whence we can all safely return to the...
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Dancing Virtually So we can all say that the ‘Summer Term’ 2020 was not like anything imaginable. However KS Dance is immensely proud of its ‘Dance Family’ for how hope, commitment, motivation, organisation and determination was not lost. As college students, teachers and staff rallied together and put a ‘Virtual...
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What’s it like to be a dancer in training at KS Dance? Training at KS Dance... If only we all had a crystal ball and the ability to get that question answered! Well….. rest all that mind chatter and read on, as we have asked some of our students, from...
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Allegrodance Week 3 On Tour Our dancers this week had to consider their wellbeing somewhat more this week in preparation for the shows in Chelmsford as the journey is around 4hours each way. It is a long time to ask a dancer to sit still. Some will think it’s possible...
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Allegrodance Touring Company 2020 Allegrodance Touring Company 2020 Week by Week It’s already that time of year again where, KS Dance take the dancers on the road to audience members up and down the country, as the first week of a three week tour is already complete. Allegrodance is always...
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More 3rd Year Success for KS Dance We are delighted to announce that Patrick Gill has also secured a contract with Varna Ballet Company, Bulgaria. Please read our previous blog post to find out all about Varna Ballet Company. Patrick will join a former Student, Elliot Adams, who already left...
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Choreography Competition 2019 Results Choreography Success As part of a dancers development it is important that time is given to the dancer to allow exploration for ones own creativity to grow, especially in choreography. Dancers have many demands put upon them from choreographers, Directors, teachers and even more so by...
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La Sylphide Coming This April to The Brindley Theatre, Runcorn. Performance evenings Fri 5th, Sat 6th, Sun 7th April 2020. 7.30pm "La Sylphide... A Classic" Kate Simmons and her team are thrilled to begin rehearsals for this wonderful classical ballet which was originally choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832 and...
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KS Dance has a long history of Competition Success at the Cecchetti Classical Ballet Awards. At KS Dance alongside our Classical Ballet Curriculum our students also study the Cecchetti Method. This enables our students to take Classical Ballet Examinations at Major Level, which in turn means our students meet the...
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October is always an exciting time for our students as they participate in the Annual Cyril Beaumont Scholarship held at KS Dance Vocational College and Studios, Warrington, Cheshire, North West. The historian and author Cyril Beaumont was a good friend to the Maestro Enrico Cecchetti and it was the influence…
Dance College Audition Dates KS Dance has something for everyone. Whether your dreams are of Dancing in the commercial world, television, theatre or on some of the grandest Ballet/Opera Stages in the World. Students of KS Dance have gone onto appear in Musicals across the globe, Ballet and Contemporary...
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We hope that you are enjoying your Summer Holidays so far…. We are! KS Dance Term Dates 2019/2020 However, we are really looking forward to meeting all of our new 1st Years who are joining us this September and also to welcome back all of our 2nd and 3rd Years………
Apply for the KS Dance 2019 Summer School: 27th July to 2nd August. This Year our Summer School has a fantastic guest faculty of Jazz, Contemporary and Classical Ballet Staff as well as sessions designed to teach Dancers about Health and Fitness for Dancers. Guests include: Matz Skoog, former Director…
KS Dance Auditions and Competitions Over the September to December Term at KS Dance there have been a number of events taking place. In particular, auditions and competitions have been a feature of this first term! At this point we are 10 weeks into the year and current students still...
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Scholarships and Competitions Once again Scholarships and Competitions Season is upon us and KS Dance kicked off with The Cyril Beaumont Awards. This year the event was attended by many Guests including our School Patrons and many School Governors. Our adjudicators for 2018 were Maureen Christie, an esteemed Cecchetti Examiner...
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The Cyril Beaumont Scholarship 2018 takes place at KS Dance on 18th October and we are delighted to welcome Oliver Rydout, Rehearsal Director at Scottish Ballet and Maureen Christie, Cecchetti Examiner, to adjudicate the event. The Cyril Beaumont Scholarship 2018 is held annually in honour of British Dance Historian Cyril...
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Dance Health and Wellbeing Dance Health and Dance Science are considerable priorities at KS Dance, with Strength and Conditioning and Injury Prevention for the students deeply embedded within our weekly timetables. Dance Health provision is ever-developing and we provide continuous support for Dancers' physical and mental health. All our Dancers...
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KS Dance at 30 On 5th August 2018, KS Dance celebrated 30 years of its Upper School by throwing a fantastic Reunion Party at Statham Lodge in the depths of Cheshire. The event saw students past and present come together to celebrate their careers, training and education with the many...
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SHOWCASE 2018 We love to relive moment from our 2018 Showcase with a small video that displays all of the Dancers who were involved in the productions this year. As we marked 30 years of KS Dance it was only fitting we displayed a classical production of Don Quixote coupled…
Don Quixote Classical Ballet has been a long standing tradition for KS Dance since the school originated. With Productions going back over 30 years, it has always been a goal of Kate Simmons to go bigger and better every year. Don Quixote was no exception. Reflecting on productions over the…
Internal Ballet Scholarship It has long been a part of KS Dance tradition to have the privilege of awarding the Cyril Beaumont Ballet Scholarship to one student. This internal competition offers the opportunity for students to demonstrate their talent and potential in Classical Ballet to a panel of invited judges….
Graduates from KS Dance Over the years KS Dance has remained a silent but active deliverer of talent to the world of Dance. Graduates of the school have graced many stages around the globe and we decided we will tell you about the wide variety of Professionals that are proud to…
Congratulations 3rd Year Level 6 Diploma Graduates of KS Dance. It’s been a very eventful 2 weeks of waiting for the Level 6 Diploma in Professional Dance results and then of course celebrating the success! Another year is almost complete and once again the students and the college have achieved…
KS Dance for over 20 years now have been successfully producing highly skilled and technical dancers in all genres that go on to have long standing careers in the Professional Dance Industry. Here is a quick look at our Graduate Destinations Northern Ballet Company, UK State Ballet Company, Ostrava Czech Republic Bucharest…
Our ‘Allegrodance Touring Company’ is in full swing after successfully completing the first leg of our national tour we are now yet again enjoying more performances this week as part of our second leg in Lymm, Runcorn and Partington. This touring dance group is an opportunity for our dancers to gain experience…
Please click on the below link to download your application form KS Dance Summer School Programme 2015 (Electronic Version) KS Dance Ltd offers an ‘International Summer School 2015′ for Dance Students and Dance Teachers’ The International Summer School is a fantastic opportunity for dancers and dance teachers to gain experience,…
Young Ballerina and KS Dance Student Brings Home Gold From CICB Competition USA Eighteen year old Jenny Hackwell from Warrington, Cheshire, who is a young Ballerina, has just won the Cecchetti International Classical Ballet Competition in Richmond, Virginia, USA midst stiff competition from Australia, South Africa, Canada, Japan and USA….
Joe Bentley & Sam Jones Dance Principal Roles in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in Sendai, Japan Kate Simmons, Principal of KS Dance, informed dance students Joe Bentley & Sam Jones that they had the fantastic opportunity of traveling to Sendai, Japan to perform principal roles of ‘The Prince’ and ‘Bluebird’ in Sleeping…
KS Dance is exceptionally proud of Jenny Hackwell who shall be representing the United Kingdom in August 2014 at the CICB International competition Virginia USA. This is the 3rd time that KS Dance has represented the UK in this international competition. This prestigious event showcases the very best up and…
Dance Performance Opportunity for KS Dance Students In December 2013, Sam Jones & Jenny Hackwell were given the unbelievable opportunity to perform the ‘The Nutcracker pas de deux’ a classical ballet dance for the Sugar Plum Fairy and Prince Coqueluche in the ballet at the Louisville Palace in Kentucky, USA…
