The Dance Studio Leeds

🙌🏻 Coming Up In September 🙌🏻

Another slightly slower month as we reogranise our timetable and also make our way into show season (get booking your performance courses now!) Check out what workshops and courses we having coming up this September:

◾️ Garba Dance Workshop with / Saturday 5th September 1:30-3:30pm

◽️ Heels Workshop (Rihanna) with / Sunday 6th September 11-12:30pm

◾️ Tap Fundamentals Course (Part 1) with / Tuesday 8th-29th September 8:30-9:30pm

◽️ Lyrical Dance Fusion with / Wednesday 9th September 7:30-8:30pm

◾️ Line Dancing Workshop with / Thursday 10th September 7:30-8:30pm

◽️ Graham & Fossee Workshop with & / Sunday 13th September 10:30-12:30pm

◾️ Commercial Divas Workshop with / Wednesday 16th September 7:30-8:30pm

◽️ Line Dancing Workshop with / Thursday 24th September 7:30-8:30pm

◾️ Heels Choreography & Performance Workshop with / Thursday 24th September 8:30-9:30pm

◽️ Ballet Workshop with / Sunday 27th September 10:30-1pm

◾️ Musical Theatre Bootcamp (Mamma Mia) with & .co.uk / Sunday 27th September 10:30-1pm

◽️ Get Down With The Kids (Family Dance Class) with / Sunday 27th September 2-3pm

◾️ LGBTQ+ Dance Freedom with / Wednesday 30th September 7:30-8:30pm

Check in with the tagged teachers for how to book and we will see you for a class soon! 💃

🪩 DSL Show Courses - Now On Sale! 🪩

Fancy taking part in our annual showcase this year on Saturday 21st November? Any DSL classes taking part in this year's show will close for those taking part in the showcase, and run as courses from October-November (some starting as early as September) to work on routines for the performance! 💃

Courses for Ballet, Tap, Heels, Hip Hop, K-Pop, Lyrical, LGBTQ+ Dance Freedom & Jazz are now on sale, so get booking your spaces now and be part of our favourite day of the year! 🥳

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Dance Freedom / East Leeds Pride 🏳️‍🌈

We had so much fun supporting East Leeds Pride last weekend with our LGBTQ+ Dance Freedom class! put together a fantastic mashup of hits which the group performed at the event! Well done to all of those involved and thank you so much for having us .community 🥰

🙌🏻A little studio update - and a very big thank you!🙌🏻

Firstly, a heartfelt thank you for your continued support of The Dance Studio Leeds. It honestly feels like yesterday that we opened our doors 17 years ago! 🥹

Many of you have been with us from day one, and your support has allowed us to continue providing a welcoming space where local dancers, teachers, groups, and communities can come together. We really don't take that for granted. ❤️

As you are all acutely aware, price increases have been felt across all aspects of life, particularly over the last year or so. This includes ourselves (and expansion to one side) we've seen huge increases across all general day-to-day building operating costs. Unfortunately, this means we’ve now reached the point where changes are necessary to ensure the studio's future sustainability.

Therefore, studio hire prices (effective 1st Sept) and class prices (effective 1st Oct) will be increasing and we’ll share full details in our newsletter over the next few weeks.

These changes will help us continue to look after and improve our facilities, manage day-to-day upkeep, cover increased rates and utilities, and ultimately strive to provide a better service and experience for everyone who uses the studio.
Thank you so much for supporting our independent dance studio; it genuinely means the world. 🫶

Here’s to the next 17 years of dancing! 💃🕺

👋🏻 Meet Molly 👋🏻

Meet our for the month of August, Molly! Molly attends our LGBTQ+ Dance Freedom class with 🏳️‍🌈 💃

Molly gave us some absolutely fantastic advice for anyone looking to book their first dance class: " I can feel very self conscious and critical about my body and movements, it's helpful to remind myself that everyone is too focused on their own dancing to focus on mine. I'm the one that notices my "flaws", not others. All humans who are learning make mistakes and that's ok! To remind myself my goal wasn't a perfect performance, it was to have fun doing a form of social exercise I actually enjoy and be kind moving in my body! You have more fun when you stop monitoring yourself, let go and treat yourself kindly."

Congratulations again Molly! 👏🏻