Discover your love for dance!
Chichester College is thrilled to be working in partnership with Dance & Beyond to provide high quality dance training across a variety of genres to boys, girls and adults of all ages and experience.
Have you been searching for a dance school that finds the best in every child?
Do you wish to reconnect with your inner performer?
Or are you looking to get active in a fun, engaging way?
About Dance & Beyond
Dance & Beyond at Chichester College believe in the transformational power of performing arts and is dedicated to spreading this message by providing a positive, nurturing and enthusiastic environment! All lessons are lead by qualified and dedicated professionals with a passion for spreading the joy of dance.
Students can follow a training system established by The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, one of the world’s leading dance examinations boards. The ISTD covers the full spectrum of genres and for more than 100 years has provided quality training, with clear progressions, enabling students to hone their dance skills and achieve internationally recognised dance qualifications.
Alongside this, we offer a wide range of classes including Musical Theatre, Jazz, Street Dance, and bespoke boys and adult classes ensuring there is something for everyone!
Location
Classes take place in the Performing Arts block at Chichester Campus, in the fully equipped dance studios with sprung flooring and mirrors.
Parking facilities are excellent and parents can take advantage of the on-site Chichester College Sports Centre with its state-of-the-art gym. Historic Chichester, ideal for shopping and leisure, is less than a 10 minute walk from the college.
About the Founder
Veronica Day originally trained professionally in dance and musical theatre at the prestigious Urdang Academy. Following this, she gained a degree in Theatre at Guildford School of Acting. Her passion for choreography and teaching led her to complete her Ballet teacher training at the Royal Academy of Dance, before achieving formal QTS status with PGCE training at Goldsmiths, University of London.
After graduating, she worked as a dance teacher and choreographer in London, before moving to the area and founding Dance & Beyond. Veronica is a registered teacher with both the RAD and ISTD and can enter students into Ballet and Modern exams. She currently holds a 100% pass rate of Merit or above for graded and vocational examinations, with some students successfully gaining entry into Vocational Performing Arts Colleges.
Veronica’s enthusiasm for dance is contagious, and she is dedicated to bestowing this passion onto students, parents and teachers alike.
About the Artistic Consultant
Irela Strachan trained initially at the National Ballet School of Canada and subsequently at Arts Educational and Bush Davies in the UK before completing an undergraduate degree in Music and Dance at Goldsmiths, University of London. She danced commercially for a number of years and taught at Pineapple Dance Studios and Stella Mann College before starting her own dance school which she ran successfully for over 10 years.
Irela holds Fellowship status with the ISTD in Imperial Ballet, Modern Theatre and Tap and is a senior examiner in all three genres. She has recently been elected on to the Imperial Ballet Faculty committee and been selected as an examiner for the new ISTD Contemporary syllabus.
Having joined the Chichester College Dance Department team in 1999, Irela introduced the ISTD’s professional dance teacher training qualifications to the college and has been delivering high quality teacher training very successfully for over 15 years. She is delighted to have had the opportunity recently to work with the dance team at the University of Chichester to develop and implement the innovative Foundation Degree Dance Teaching in the Private Sector.
She is committed to developing dance education programmes that offer students a breadth of study that will afford them every opportunity to work in the dance sector as performers and/or teachers.
Get involved
For further information please visit our website:Â www.danceandbeyond.com, email us directly at info@danceandbeyond.com or contact us: