Here at Sutton School of Dance Classes Northwich we hold 3 Exam Sessions per year. With age and ability deciding how many exams are taken per year, our pupils have a manageable progression to their Dance training. However, with the NATD Trophy Exam, even our tiniest dancers get to earn themselves an engraved Trophy with their name on it, marked and moderated by an external professional examiner. With this in mind, we hold an annual Showcase, where our pupils perform their Exam Dances from the past year for all their family and friends. Not only do our pupils love showing their loved ones what they’ve been up to and how much they’ve improved, we’ve have a great response from the families. They all really appreciate being able to see what it is we are actually working towards in class, along with witnessing their child’s happiness and development and feeling reassured their money has been well spent. Because we pull together as a whole school, pupils and parents alike get to enjoy seeing our most advanced students wow; showing where our younger students are aspiring to, right down to our tiniest dancers enjoying every second of being a star. Furthering this we all enjoy a buffet together with everyone’s favourite party food where everyone gets to mingle and catch up. This is followed by our Awards Ceremony where we present 13 Annual Trophies incorporating of Junior and Senior Students in all 3 disciplines. There are Trophies for the best mark in an Exam which is decided externally by Examiners, along with improvement awards chosen by us. We conclud the Showcase with an inclusive disco for all, with fun party games and dances. To find out more about our Awards Ceremony please visit NATD Dance Exams.
Summer School
Here at Sutton School of Dance Northwich we offer a Dance Summer School available for our students aged 3 to 18+ which has been a thriving tradition since we started them in 2004. The places are always in high demand, and we have our pupils begging their parents to book their holidays around them. Although our Summer Schools are Dance based, we create our own adaptations of various Musicals where our pupils get to play characters and take part in an hour long production. Our pupils love spending the week dancing and having fun with their friends from all classes and ages. We make sure all our dancers get to put their ballet, modern and tap skills to great use, and introduce them to lots of different styles of dance. Witnessing our older students benefiting from helping our younger students, and our younger students benefiting from dancing and looking up to our older students feels us with joy. All our Summer Schools are costumed to perfection and are professional staged and lighted so our pupils can really shine and be part of a performance they can be proud of. All of our performances at Sutton School of Dance are professionally videoed, so our pupils can have a copy to keep and look back on.
Pantomimes, Musicals, External Performances
Here at our Northwich Dance School we believe it is our responsibility to give our pupils the chance to put all their hard work in Dance class to good use and perform. We find that Pantomimes, Musicals and External Performances are a great platform for this, as the nature of the performing allows for enjoying experiencing different styles and genres in a supportive and friendly atmosphere. Furthermore, our students get to show their talents to a varied audience for consecutive shows, opposing to our in house Dance Shows which is just for family and friends. Here at Sutton School of Dance we have been choreographing our students in various amateur Pantomimes, Musicals and External one of Performances for over 20 years, with numerous amounts of Amateur Musical Theatre groups, Operatic Societies, Pantomime Groups, and Charity and Theme Events. We find our students that take part in these performance come on leaps and bounds in their performance ability, and enjoy the experiences so much that they can’t wait to get involved in the next performance opportunity we offer.
Christmas Party
Here at Sutton School of Dance Northwich we put on a Christmas Party for all our students! There’s lots of party games, party food and dancing, and Santa comes! So it’s presents all round! Last year Elsa and Ana from Frozen popped in to join in with all the party games! The Christmas party is a massive hit with all our younger ones, and our older ones love coming along and joining in pretending that they’re ‘helping out’!!