Step Ahead is celebrating its first birthday of its dance school at the Hockley Centre in
Poynton. The school which opened in June 2009 has enjoyed welcoming and training up new pupils over the past year.
Now awash with lots of budding ballerinas, tantalising tappers and
slick street dancers the school is working towards including the new
pupils in the 2011 biannual show as well as preparing them for
gruelling examinations and show cases.
The new school opened after an increase in numbers at the school’s
Heald Green venue and also provides an ideal facility for top level
ballerina’s thanks to the Hockley Centre’s sprung floor and
contemporary dance studio.
NATD and RAD registered by Mutual Agreement Principal of Step Ahead Natalie Bates
said: “I am really pleased that the new school has been such a success.
It is always a risk investing time and money into a new business.
Thankfully I have a great support network around me and excellent body
of staff who are really hard working.
“I have been delighted with the level of talent we have discovered in
the Poynton area and there has been a huge rise in the number of boys
coming to join in with our street dance lessons. Thanks to programmes
like Strictly Come Dancing and Britain’s Got Talent, boys are becoming
less inhibited and are embracing the dance culture.”
Step Ahead is always on the lookout for new pupils and would like to
hear from anyone interested in coming to the school.To book a place, or
to get more information, please
contact Natalie Bates on 077996 14260 or email
info@stepaheaddance.co.uk