90% of the course is held in the studio and on-stage, and you will work towards the highest standards of technique and artistry.

The core disciplines are Ballet supported by Contemporary Dance and you will also study:

Ballet

Variations

Pas de deux

Repertoire

Performance

Contemporary Dance

Choreography Workshops

Spanish Dance

Body Conditioning

Upper Body Strength Training

Music Appreciation

Dalcroze Eurhythmics

Anatomy

Benesh Notation

Dance History and Appreciation

Dance on Screen

You will have opportunities within the curriculum to showcase your dance abilities to audiences and directors in the UK and abroad.

Our close links with English National Ballet offers  professional performance opportunities with the company. In recent years our students have performed in Cinderella, The Snow Queen, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake in prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall and the London Coliseum.

We produce public performances involving the entire student body twice a year at Christmas in our studio theatre and in the Summer at a prestigious London venue where you, alongside your fellow students, have the opportunity to work with internationally renowned choreographers, perform in some of the great ballets by Fredrick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan.

Where appropriate, students also go abroad to perform and enter prestigious competitions such as the Prix de Lausanne and the Young British Dancer of the Year. In 2010 ENBS had considerable success at the Prix de Lausanne competition in Switzerland, with the School being represented by four male students from the 2nd Year. 85 dancers from around the world were selected to compete. Of these, just 20 made it through to the final, and three of those were ENBS students. This a real credit to our students and their hard work and to our exceptional staff and their world class teaching.

Academic Programme

ENBS is first and foremost a ballet school. We ensure students receive a good all-round education to prepare you for a future career in dance and provide a unique course of academic study which focuses on creative and artistic development.

You will continue to develop academic and intellectual skills through a programme specifically designed to enhance and extend your dance training and to meet the demands of the ever changing dance profession.

The course of study includes:

Dance History - a fascinating look at the roots of present day dance performance. This course underpins work in all other modules

Anatomy for dancers - understanding the importance of nutrition, psychology, fitness and a healthy lifestyle in reaching optimum performance

Choreography - developing the imaginative and creative response in each dancer and understanding the choreographic process. The module is integrated with a number of other modules

Benesh Notation - ENBS is one of only two vocational schools in the United Kingdom to enter students for the Score Reading for Dancers exam of the Benesh Institute, where results are consistently high

Professional Development Portfolio - preparation for audition and entry into the dance profession; also maintaining a professional career

Dance on Screen - from Busby Berkeley to the Ballet Boyz this module focuses on the directors, choreographers and dancers who have used innovatory filming techniques to portray, manipulate and distort the dancing body over the last seventy five years.

Fitness Programme

Your health and physical welfare is of high priority to us and we have a programme of physical fitness specially designed for you with the aim of developing your technical skills by improving your general health, fitness and stamina.

The programme helps you to meet the ever-increasing technical and choreographic demands made on dancers today.

The School's emphasis on fitness to dance and on a "healthy dancer programme" is about attention to all-round fitness that is achieved through a combination of regular, body conditioning, weight training and education          about nutrition.

Visiting lecturers who are specialists in the fields of nutrition, sports psychology and physiotherapy supplement the core curriculum. We value this knowledge as part of the essential preparation for a career as a professional dancer. It helps you to understand your physiques and to prevent injuries where possible.

We want you to feel both mentally and physically in peak condition, so that you can achieve excellence.