Today is our school's 8th Anniversary of Silver Swans®!

An initiative of the Royal Academy of Dance, our Silver Swans® Licensee, Johanna, was thrilled to be part of the RAD's pilot programme for Silver Swans from the very start in 2017. Eight years on, our classes are still going strong!

What started with just one in-person class a week, eight years on, our vibrant online community of 5x live online Zoom classes a week are attended by dancers, aged 55-90, from all across the UK, Europe and USA. And we have some Silver Swans still dancing with us from eight years ago!

Since 2017, Johanna has also taught regular Silver Swans and Seated Swans classes for charities such as Carers UK and the Royal Voluntary Service. Johanna also actively hosts Silver Swans events for causes, such as Age UK's Silver Sunday, Age of Creativity Festival and Angela Rippon's Let's Dance.

And what an honour it has been for our classes to have been featured by media outlets in the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA these last 8 years:
BBC Two's Darcey Bussell: Dancing to Happiness, BBC North West Tonight, ITV Tonight: How To Age Well?, Woman's Weekly, The i Newspaper, The Connexion (France), Breathe Magazine, ​BBC Radio, That's Manchester TV, World Ballet Day, The Times, ​The Telegraph, Daily Express, MSN (UK and international), Caters News and RAD@Home.
Thank you to all our wonderful, dedicated Silver Swans® who make classes every week such a joy

We are so proud of our students appearing in the Dancewear Central Back to School Teacher Catalogue 2025/26 – and with Phoebe and Beatrice as the front cover stars!

The catalogue features current students Phoebe, Beatrice and Lorelle, and past pupils (now in full-time training), Emily, Denis and Eliana.

Such beautiful photos!

We would like to send lots of luck to Lorelle as she starts at The Hammond School this week!

It has been an absolute pleasure teaching Lorelle since she was just five years old – and six years on, she's now achieved a place at her dream full-time dance school, The Hammond. Not only that, but she has also been awarded the Christine Eccleston-Touhy full scholarship to attend!

In these six years, Lorelle has achieved so much – Elmhurst Junior Associates, Tring Park Associates, outstanding examination results (100% Distinctions), a ballet champion, and many years of modelling professionally for Dancewear Central.

Lorelle will be greatly missed in our classes – but as always with our students, it is never goodbye, but see you soon!