Our course is designed to give each cast member a true representation of being a young pre-professional dancer and an exciting year working as a junior company with our experienced and highly professional staff. We believe that dancers need to be multi-employable in order to have longevity in the dance profession and by developing versatile, technically and artistically strong dancers, they have the best professional opportunities.

Encore Dance Company has two different schedules during the year, starting in September, there are training weeks and creation weeks. Training weeks encompass all the daily core subjects – ballet, contemporary, jazz, commercial dance, pas de deux, Jazz double work, contact improvisation, variations, virtuosity, fitness and conditioning classes, weight training and ongoing academic work required to complete the Level 6 Diploma in professional dance. Creation weeks are when the students work with external choreographers who are invited in by the Artistic Director to create or re-stage existing works.

By the end of the second term, several works will have been made that will form the annual Encore Dance Company Show.

Encore operates as a junior company so that the cast experience is as true to reality as possible. This Third Year is about creativity, collaboration and working as part of an artistic team. Working with Encore Dance Company this year are:

Sir Matthew Bourne OBE

Sir Richard Alston CBE

Etta Murfitt MBE

Kerry Biggin

Glenn Graham

Kenneth Tindall

Charlie Bruce

Previously, members have worked with many other notable choreographers, including:

Jodie Blemings, Travis Clausen-Knight, Ruth Brill, Simon Hardwick, Adam Cooper, Vanessa Fenton, Rowen Hawkins, Anthony Van Laast CBE, Cathy Marston, Ernst Meisner, Christian Alozie Flawless, Drew McConie