This Commercial class is the like stepping onto the set of a music video - the perfect combination of both Jazz and Hip Hop styles. Our Senior Students are pushed to the next level with a specific focus on leaps, turns, flexibility, strength and performance quality. Different styles of Jazz and Hip Hop are explored, with a priority placed on commercial routines, where students are encouraged to find expression and atmosphere to convey the meaning and style of the piece.

At this level, the focus is on stylistic movements and dynamics. Senior students are not only working on mastering more intricate choreography, but they are also ensuring that they have an ear for sounds within the music, that they can portray the strong and fluid movements accurately and that expression comes from within and is projected to their audience. Working as a team through the use of clever formations and also improvement within self are equally important in this program.

This class is specifically designed to challenge and fast track the growth of our Senior students, who will perform a Commercial piece at our end of year Showcase.

Contemporary is an artistic and expressive combination of lyrical, jazz and classical ballet styles. For the Seniors at Universal Dance Company, our focus and passion within these classes include learning the art of improvisation, incorporating safe floor work, finding versatility, the importance of control and the use of gravity. The students are inspired to develop their own unique style and ability to move their bodies freely to express feelings. Students will perform a Contemporary routine at the end of year Showcase.

Acrobatic classes are designed for dancers wanting to ‘up the anti’ and proceed to the next level! These classes will strengthen their core, engage fast twitch muscle fibres and improve flexibility through stretching and limbering. Acro classes are a fantastic way for dancers to expand their skill set by learning tricks and lifts for their routines and providing an edge at competitions and auditions. Students will perform an Acrobatic routine at our end of year Showcase.

Universal Dance Company offers the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus which is one of the largest dance organisations in the world with now over 80 countries offering this syllabus. RAD exam classes are a prerequisite for performance group students, however all students are welcome and encouraged to participate. These classes are vocational exams which are designed for older students and young adults who have an extensive understanding of Ballet technique and potentially wish to have a career in dance. These exams are physically demanding and require artistic technique. Vocational exams normally take 2 years to sit and are graded by an external examiner. Upon completion of their exam, students can then progress to the next grade. Students also perform a Ballet routine at the end of year Showcase.

Students in RAD Vocational Exam levels attend this class to specifically work on their pointe technique and learn their pointe syllabus content. If yet to reach this milestone, students will strengthen their feet in preparation for going en pointe.