The Academy for Performing Arts is a truly exceptional dance school and performing arts education establishment serving Crewe, Nantwich and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Established in 2010 and based in the delightful village of Betley, equidistant from its three nearest towns in Staffordshire and Cheshire, The Academy provides outstanding dance, drama and music training and education in its specialist performing arts studios set in beautiful rural surroundings.

We offer dance, acting, singing and instrumental lessons for children and young people between the ages of 2 ½ and 18 years old. Our curriculum of dance lessons include:

RAD Classical Ballet
ISTD Tap
ISTD Modern
IDTA Musical Theatre
Street Commercial
Contemporary
Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT)
Ballet Body Conditioning
Acro and Aerial Hoop
GCSE Dance

Students achieve outstanding examination results with 100% of students achieving at least a Merit grade and at least 80% of students consistently achieving Distinctions. Students also enjoy aspirational and prestigious opportunities to perform at venues including: Disneyland Paris, Silverstone for the British Formula One Grand Prix, His Majesty’s Theatre and the Shaftsbury Theatre in London’s West End, the Birmingham Hippodrome, Alton Towers and Stoke on Trent’s Regent Theatre.

The Academy for Performing Arts applies equal emphasis to nurturing the next generation of performing artists and moulding kind, responsible, curious and culturally and artistically aware human beings.  

We are a small school with big aspirations and an even bigger heart.

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