Applications open 29 September

Applications to our degree courses open on Monday 29 September. Entry is via in-person or video audition.

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Discover Foyer de danse

Find out more about the uncovered Frederick Ashton miniature masterpiece, part of the 2025 Ballet Central programme

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MA Choreography

Designed for professional choreographers who wish to develop their choreographic profile and professional skills.

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Adult Dance Classes

Central’s Neighbourhood Classes offer Ballet and African Contemporary Dance classes at discounted rates for Southwark and Lambeth residents.

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Degree Courses

Becoming a professional dancer can be achieved through skill, talent, determination and most importantly, excellent training.

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Ballet Central

Third year degree students join Central’s touring company to gain professional performance experience in their last year of study.

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Classes and Courses

Central provides dance classes and intensives for young children, aspiring teenagers and adults to develop dance skills, wellbeing and general fitness.

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Preparing For Your Audition

Life as a student dancer at Central is more than specialist training and supporting study modules. When you join Central, you also join a family. Find out more about how you will be training, the audition process, and what life is like as a Central student training in the heart of London.

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Reflecting on the Ballet Central 2025 tour

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Summer Term Recap

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Introducing Central’s 2025 MA Choreography Cohort

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Classes & Courses

Children and Young people

Central runs a regular programme of dance courses after school and in the school holidays for children and teenagers of different abilities, skills, and interest. From one day courses for fun and musicality for the younger age groups to courses for ambitious young dancers for a taste of life in full-time vocational dance training.

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Adult Dance Classes

Central’s drop-in adult dance classes provide a fun and satisfying way to improve muscle tone, flexibility, co-ordination as well as the chance to develop dance technique. For ages 18+ and all genders.

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Venue Hire

Central’s new home, The Countess of Wessex Studios, ideally located a 10 minute walk from Waterloo and 20 minutes from London Bridge, in Southwark SE1, offers amenities to rival dance training facilities anywhere in the UK; seven studios, The Gable Theatre (a fully equipped studio theatre), study and resource centres, a green room, and a well-equipped health and wellbeing suite. These facilities are available to hire. Please contact info@csbschool.co.uk for more information.

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Support Central to help nurture the talent of the future stars of dance. Whether you donate to an appeal, join the Friends, or build a transformational partnership with a major donation or charitable grant, you are helping provide the support, training and experience needed for dancers from diverse backgrounds to reach their potential.

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