Saturday Dance Clubs for Kids in Wandsworth
What to expect...
Saturday Dance Classes
Welcome to Erika’s Dance Classes — where children learn to dance, move, and shine every Saturday morning!
Our sessions are designed to inspire confidence, creativity, and a love for movement through fun, structured classes in ballet, commercial, and street dance.
Whether your child is taking their first dance steps or building on existing skills, our Saturday classes provide a nurturing and exciting environment for every dancer to grow, express themselves, and make new friends.
Join us for a joyful start to the weekend — full of rhythm, energy, and smiles! 🌟
Mini Movers Ballet (3 to 5 years)
Mini Movers ballet classes benefit children's strength, creativity, flexibility, coordination, and balance.
These fun classes introduce basic ballet concepts, music, and movement.
They promote proper alignment and posture, which supports lifelong health, and challenge endurance and stamina.
By keeping children active, Mini Movers classes teach basic ballet using games, props, and a variety of songs.
Our creative and nurturing environment helps children explore ballet while learning teamwork and sharing a passion with others.
The classes also enhance expression through different types of music.
Ballet (6 to 10 years)
In these classes, students will learn classical ballet techniques, dance terminology, and formations.
They will develop poise, grace, and strength while challenging their bodies and minds.
Our playful learning style includes engaging and challenging exercises.
Each week, we create and add to a choreography, helping to train children's memory as well.
Commercial/Street Dance (6 to11 years)
Commercial/Street dance class introduce children to a variety of styles, including modern, jazz, neoclassic, and hip-hop, along with elements of breaking, popping, locking, and house.
This dance style, often featured in pop music videos, TV shows, and movies, is designed to be performed in front of an audience.
Our classes include freestyle, offering a fantastic opportunity for your child to build confidence, creativity, and new skills. Weekly choreographies help improve stamina, coordination, musicality, memory, focus, and teamwork.
Commercial dancers must perform with energy and precision while making routines look effortless.
Advanced Commercial/Street Dance (10 years +)
Commercial/Street Dance 2 is an advanced class covering a variety of styles, including modern, jazz, neoclassic, and hip-hop, along with breaking, popping, locking, and house.
The choreography is typical of pop music videos, TV shows, and movies, and includes guided freestyle sessions.
Students will build confidence, learn to use stage space, explore creativity, and continually improve new skills.
The class helps enhance stamina, coordination, flexibility, musicality, memory, focus, and teamwork.
Students will also learn partnering, lifting, formations, and participate in dance battles.
Each week, new movements are added to the routine choreography.
Dancers must perform with energy and precision, making the routine look effortless.
Contemporary Dance (9 years +)
Children aged 9 and above, or younger children with strong ballet or lyrical/contemporary experience, can join our contemporary dance classes.
Contemporary dance combines ballet's controlled legwork with modern dance elements, focusing on body contract and release, unpredictable changes in rhythm, speed, and direction, as well as floor work, fall and recovery, and contact improvisation.
Classes will explore the four elements of dance: body, action, space, time, and energy.
Students will learn to communicate and express through choreography, using improvisation techniques and various contemporary dance methods like Cunningham, Limon, Graham, and Release.
The goal is to tell stories through movement.
Benefits of the contemporary dance class include improved flexibility, enhanced core strength, elevated coordination, boosted cardiovascular health, encouraged emotional expression, increased confidence, and supported cognitive function.
