Ballet & Dance School Classes || Welland School of Dancing

Welland School of Dancing teaches the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) syllabus for Ballet, and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (ISTD) syllabus for Tap and Modern Theatre. The school caters for both the serious student (many will go on to professional training and careers in the theatre), and the recreational pupil. Children are accepted from age 2 for Ballet, age 3 for Tap & Modern Theatre, 4 for Performing Arts, 6 for Acro and Age 7 for Hip Hop and Contemporary. The school also holds adult classes in ballet, tap & jazz, with beginners welcome.

The school has its main full time dance studio in Stamford, based in the former Stamford Museum on Broad Street with pianists, ballet barres, mirrors and sprung floors; all essential for long term dance training. We moved to our new premises on Broad Street in September 2017 after being based on St Mary's Street in the ballroom floor of former Georgian Stamford Hotel since 1995.

To find out more about individual classes please just click on the dance category and on the right hand side select class that you are interested in and you will be able to find all the information related to that class, from class structure, age group, timetable, fees, uniform and all the related class info.

Maggie Purr,Principal of WSD 2010 – present

Maggie is a former pupil of Welland School of Dancing. Under the tutelage of Miss Desbruslais, Maggie gained a place at the Royal Ballet School as a senior associate, and then at Central School of Ballet in 1996, trained by Christopher and Carole Gable.

Nicole Ryan

Film and Television – Lead Role

Gemma Jackson

Gemma left the Welland School of Dance in 2005 to pursue her career as a professional dancer. She was offered a full time scholarship at Cambridge performing Arts on the musical theatre course, where she studied for four years.

Alexandra Smith

Tiffany Theatre College, Company Manager P&O and princess cruises

Emily Griffiths

Hammond School, P&O and costa cruises

Poppy Brewell

Bird College

Lavinia Kastamoniti

Lavinia, originally from Greece, began her dancing from an early age in Corfu with her mother Tina Chandley (training: Northern Ballet School) as her teacher.

Charley May

Pirouette Scchool – Leicester, Teacher WSD, TuDance and Inspire.

Emily Boswall

Ballet Theatre UK school

Alice Cade

Trinity Laban, Founder of Abalinodance theatre

Jenny Richardson

I started at Welland when i was 3 years old doing ballet classes every Tuesday, then at 7 I joined tap and modern classes.

Chloe Jackson

Royal Ballet school, Arts Educational Tring Park

Chloe Hebden

Billy Elliott, Hebden School of Dancing

Marina Fraser

Royal Ballet School

Katie Green

WSD Pupil 1984-2000

Kizze Burkitt

Since joining at the age of four, Welland has instilled in me an absolute passion for dance that has fundamentally shaped the course of my life.

Harriet Britten

What The Welland did for me?
I will forever be grateful for what my time at The Welland taught me, I have always loved dance and always will, as well as this, throughout my 9 years there, I learnt how to be disciplined; in a way that I now pass on to my pupils.