Happy New Year! We hope you had a lovely festive break. 2022 went super fast and now as usual it feels like January is lasting a decade! We welcomed back our street dance academy students and their families last Saturday at our Street Dance Academy and boy did the term start with a bang! It [&hell
Anyone else feeling the heat?! We’ve been hot on our toes here at Elevate Arts this summer term keeping busy with various performances and events and we haven’t quite finished just yet with our Urban Dance Camp this week too! You know you’ve been busy when you need to scroll back through your
House Dance is an authentic style of street dance that originated in the late 70s and early 80s. It derived from underground clubs in the East coast of America, specifically Chicago and New York. This style was influenced by a number of other movement styles, including Tap, African dance, Latin danc
Happy Easter and the end of lockdown 3.0 After a full 3 months on Zoom we are now finally coming out of Lockdown 3.0 which means we can now meet for outdoor classes and will be returning to the studio on 24th April for the summer term! Our students (and parents of course) have been […]
Happy Christmas! Every year we say “What a year!” but 2020 has definitely topped any preceding year for most of us we reckon. This year more than ever we thank all our families who have stuck by us and we wish all of you a very happy Christmas and new year and hope 2021 brings […]
There are 2 types of motivation: Extrinsic – Doing something for an outcome Intrinsic – Doing something for enjoyment When your child feels motivated, they will want to attend their dance class be it online, the park or the studio. It is easy to get them to wake up, get ready and put their all [
A while ago we posted a Blog titled “5 concepts to help you create” to give you some ideas of how to creatively develop your freestyle skills. We hope you found these concepts helpful and found some new ways of moving through trying them out. If you managed to create new movement, fantastic! If
On the 12th May, we took our competition crew TRNSCND to Bethnal Green in East London to compete in The Hotstepper UK. Since the new crew formed in September, this was our first competition together as a team. We trained hard for this event as a crew because we knew the standard would be super [&hel
In November last year, we decided to take our crew, TRNSCND to compete at the UK Street Dance Championships in Harrow, London. As we only started our training in September, we didn’t enter a group piece, but instead gave our young dancers the opportunity to compete as soloists and duos. For many o
Waacking emerged from the disco music of the gay nightclub culture of the late 1960s/1970’s in Los Angeles and was primarily a Black and Latino dance style. Blacks and Latinos had everything stripped away from them, their neighbourhoods were ghettos and What is they were fighting against this oppr