The foundation everything else is built on.

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Available from: All age groups

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Classical ballet is the technical language of all great dance. Posture, alignment, strength, flexibility, musicality, body awareness — every quality a dancer develops through ballet transfers directly into every other style they will go on to learn. This is why we make ballet central to every level of the curriculum from Budding Programme through to Senior.

What your child develops: correct physical alignment that benefits them far beyond the studio, the ability to listen and translate music into movement, patience, discipline, and a technical foundation that makes every other style more accessible.

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When the music becomes the movement.

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Available from: Foundational Programme & up​

Lyrical sits at the intersection of ballet and jazz, using the emotional content of music as its primary material. A lyrical dancer does not just perform to a song — they interpret it. The result is some of the most expressive and arresting performance work in the studio’s repertoire.

What your child develops: musicality, storytelling through movement, emotional intelligence in performance, and a fluidity of technique that draws on multiple disciplines at once.

Strength, flexibility, and artistry held in the same body.

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Available from: Mini Programme & up​

Acrobatic dance fuses classical dance technique with gymnastic athleticism. It demands strength, flexibility, spatial awareness, and the kind of trust in your own body that comes only from training it carefully over time. It is also, consistently, the discipline that produces the most audible reaction at performances.

What your child develops: core strength, upper and lower body flexibility, spatial confidence, and the athletic foundation that makes every other physical discipline easier.

Gravity, expression, and the freedom that comes from knowing the rules.

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Available from: Primary Programme & up​

Modern dance explores contraction and release, floor work, and the emotional register of movement. Where ballet works within strict form, Modern works with and against it — giving students a vocabulary of expression that no other discipline quite replicates.

What your child develops: physical versatility, emotional expression through movement, core strength, and an understanding of how the body communicates beyond steps.

Dynamic, empowering, and unmistakably alive.

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Available from: Primary Programme & above​

Jazz dance is high-energy, technically demanding, and defined by a quality of performance presence that is difficult to teach in any other discipline. Sharp isolations, dynamic turns, and the kind of performative energy that makes an audience sit forward in their seat — jazz develops a dancer’s ability to command a space.

What your child develops: performance presence, physical dynamism, technical versatility, and a natural ease in front of an audience.

Rooted in culture. Built on rhythm. Entirely individual.

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Available from: Mini Programme & above​

Studio One’s Hip Hop programme is taught with age-appropriate music and choreography at every level — this is a deliberate, considered curriculum choice, not a casual afterthought. The style covers foundational groove, isolations, breaking elements, and freestyle, always within a framework that honours the cultural origins of the form.

What your child develops: rhythm, personal expression, physical confidence, and the ability to hold a stage in a way that few other. disciplines produce so naturally.

Where technique ends and artistry begins.

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Available from: Junior Programme - Adult Classes

Contemporary dance draws from ballet and modern to create something that prioritises freedom, emotional authenticity, and physical intelligence over any fixed vocabulary. It is the discipline that asks the most of a dancer’s internal world, and the one that most consistently produces the most complete, versatile performers.

What your child develops: artistic autonomy, physical versatility, the confidence to improvise within structure, and the ability to communicate something genuine through movement.

For the dancer who never stopped loving it.

Available from: 18 & above​

There comes a point in so many dancers’ lives where training stops. School ends, life takes over, and the studio slips away. But the pull toward movement doesn’t. Our adult classes exist for exactly that person — and for the person who has never danced a day in their life and has simply decided that now is the time.

The Studio One adult programme is an urban-contemporary fusion: structured enough to be genuinely satisfying, free enough to meet every person where they are. No exams. No performance requirements. No expectation beyond showing up. Available at Brackenfell, Durbanville, and Val de Vie.