Dancers from the Canterbury Institute for Performing Arts ( Canterbury Academy) will be taking part in the Kent School Games Cultural Celebration on Sunday 18th September. Our dancers performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in Margate, watch their performance here.

Another jam packed dance platform hosted on Saturday 2nd July in Tonbridge. Our Platform was part of THE BIG DANCE FESTIVAL 2016 & U DANCE and involved over 150 performed from across Kent & the South East. Individual video clips of the dance pieces will be available to purchase very soon.

Our practitioner Ellie Byrd headed to South East Dance this week to learn the 2016 Big Dance Pledge this year choreographed by Akram Khan. The choreography was delivered to over 80 dancers and performed at the Evolve Dance Platform on Saturday 2nd July. Watch the video clip 1 here & video clip 2 here.

Our Early Years, Juniors and Cascade Youth dancers performed on Monday 2nd May at Hilbert and Grosvenor Park in Tunbridge Wells. We had a great time and pictures will be available to view via our facebook page

We hosted a commercial dance workshop with professional dancer and actor Layton Williams in June for dancers aged 13 - 19 years. The workshop gave dancers a great workout and a real feel for professional dance classes and further training. Layton will be returning next year, please keep checking for information. View workshop clip here

Our Youth dancers took part in the Mardi Gras Festival at Sadlers Wells Theatre London on Saturday 21st May. Our dancers performed two new pieces choreographed by Ricia and Sam. You can view pictures via our Instagram account

We had a great time at MOVE IT this year at London Excel. Sam Blackden taught an Open Contemporary Class with a Cunningham Technique Influence on Friday 18th March and our Canterbury Academy Dance Programme Students performed their new work in the Showcase Theatre. Watch a snippet here

Our production of ALICE went extremely well! Over 150 dancers came together at the Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks on Sat 16th January to perform our adaption of the Alice in Wonderland tale. A sold out performance! Thank you to all everyone that came to watch and all our volunteers who assisted us backstage! ALICE DVD'S ORDER HERE

Saturday 21st November, One Church. Brighton Dance Network - First Step.

A wonderful experience at the Brighton Dance Network Scratch night, receiving great feedback and new ideas for taking our work forward. You can catch our performance here

We are delighted to have performed at Disneyland Paris with ' Take us to the Magic' on Tuesday 25th August! We took a residential trip with 20 Cascade dancers to Paris this august. Watch a medley of our performance here