Our ballet grades run form primary to 8th grade in the junior syllabus and pre-elementary to advanced on the senior work.
Primary is intended for babies of 3 years upto 6 years and is a lovely beginning for ballet.

There are 8 other grades which start very gently and increase steadily through the ballet work.
The taped music compliments this and is used in examinations. We to not supply dance music this is teachers own choice in all subjects.

There is a primary syllabus for modern tap and acrobatic to complement the other subjects but again remember this work is only for babies start older children on 1st grade.
Our modern and acrobatic syllabus has 7 junior grades. Senior grades are elementary inter and advanced.

Drama has 5 junior grades and 3 senior grades of elementary inter and advanced.

Tap grades have 8 grades, which includes the new intro to third grade. This new grade was introduced in 2003 to help students with what was considered by teachers the big jump from 2nd to 3rd in terms of syllabus difficulty. It is proving a popular little grade and is helping students with their tap technique.

U.K.D.D.F teacher members best describe the style of the syllabus in all subjects. They state that it gives their students the ability to dance.
Now i now that might sound strange but teachers are noticing the change it is making. Although you are still giving your students valuable technique instruction, the syllabus also brings out the dance from within the student. From discussions with teachers we have added our simple slogan:

U.K.D.D.F teaching people to dance

Teachers with existing schools can easily adapt their students to our grade system. What ever grade your students are currently at, start them at the same grade in our syllabus work if it is to easy for them take them up a grade.


Below you will find examples of our syllabus training programme for you to download.

The training programme contains Modern, Tap, Acrobatic and Ballet Syllabus for Grade 3.

To download the example programme in Word format (.doc) please click here (165Kb)

To download the example programme in Acrobat format (.pdf) please click here (145Kb)

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