All staff and students at 'On The Edge' Academy would like to welcome new teacher Kelly to the team. Kelly has vast knowledge and experience in the performing arts industry and we are so excited for her to join our Academy family. Kellys awards include LAMDA Gold Award, ISTD Modern Advanced 2, IDTA Jazz, RAD Gold [...]
Our Academy students have been chosen to perform at a special event! We are all really excited and cannot wait! A special guest teacher Shaunna will be choreographing an energetic Hair Spray inspired piece especially for the ball.
On The Edge Academy students were asked to perform at the Lydiate Festival. Our talented dancers showcased their hip-hop skills and put on an amazing display for all the public! A huge well done to everyone!
We are extremely proud of our Academy students for performing in the 'Next Generation Production' taken place at the Valley Theatre. The Production showcased hip-hop, b-boying and street dance fused with elements of lyrical dance! It also had amazing special guest acts which involved singing performances and even Mongolian Dance!
Dance classes have now begun for our University of Liverpool student dancers. On The Edge are busy teaching and choreographing the talented students and preparing them for their national 'Off Beat' Competition due to take place spring 2013. They won 1st place last year- let's hope we can be successful again!
After the huge success of our first 'Around The World' Project we were asked to put on another project ending in a fantastic special performance! This time we explored African Dance, Chinese Dance and even Mexican Folk Dance!
On The Edge carried out creative workshops with the wonderful pupils at Westvale School. Sessions were based around the theme of fireworks as part of the PE Curriculum. Well done to class 2M! Year 1 & Year 2 pupils also took part in extra dance sessions for a fun and upbeat choreography around the theme of 'Prickly [...]
Open to our youngest academy students in groups Yellow and Red! A wonderful, fun and exciting Christmas party celebration took place were our youngest students got to take part in all sorts of festive activities! We had dancing, games, prizes, arts & crafts, disco, face-painting, a buffet and so much more! We even got a [...]
Well done to all of our participants who took part in the energetic 'Measure Up' programme! Congratulations on all of your hard work and tremendous weight loss! Tremendous effort and energy by all who took part and completed the programme!
A big well done to all our On The Edge Academy students who took part in our most recent specialist master workshop! The workshop was open to all of our colour groups Yellow, Red and Purple. It concentrated on the main aspects of b-boying (break dance) involving power moves, freezes, top rock, down rock and footwork. Look out for us [...]