Welcome to the official website of Excelsior School of Dance and Gymnastics.
Our dance school, located on the Mansfield Woodhouse highstreet, brings together a dedicated and experienced team of teachers (each with specialised dance interests, meaning you get a focused and high quality tuition from each and every class you choose to take), some of the largest and best facilities around, not to mention our credit-crunch-beating class and private tuition prices, which are on par or lower than most other nearby dance schools – even those with far more limited training facilities than ours.
Our ethos is simple: excellence should not be exclusive. It should be made available to those who spend time and effort, which we encourage throughout our school with dynamic teaching and constantly high expectations. For us, excellence in the Performing Arts should not only be open to those who are able to spend silly money
on themselves or their children.
Excelsior offers a wide range of dance classes, spanning from social through to exam-
grade and competition level, bringing together the careful poise of ballet, the sassy
spirit of Latin, the debonair delights of ballroom, the frantic pace of freestyle, and
much more else besides.
Our premises in North Nottinghamshire comprise two large dance studios, a smaller
third studio-come-private practice room, a gym area, and a wide range of safety and
support apparatus. Also, because many of our students regularly stay long hours and
train well into the evenings, we like them to feel at home, and so take great pride
in the cosy ambiance, the quirky décor, the homely feel throughout our premises,
designed to impress, amuse, welcome, and above all else inspire them. These are
just some of the reasons why many of our younger students achieve the highest
standards in exams, competitions, theatrical performances, auditions and suchlike,
whilst our older students go on to enjoy life beyond Excelsior with enrolments into
higher education dance and theatre courses at college, university, and stage school.
During the past six months alone for example, one of our students auditioned for a
full scholarship at not one, but two of London's most renowned and prestigious stage
schools. Amazingly, he was offered both and now attends his first choice amongst
them.
So whether you're looking for a weekly hobby or have your eyes set on a West End
debut, know that we've got the expertise and experience to set you on your way.
Angela xx