Performing Arts Courses & Classes in London and Online

Trace the development of jazz piano from its origins in New Orleans to later styles, including boogie woogie, stride,



bebop, post bop and abstraction, and look at key influential pianists of the period.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Come and improve your vocal skills through voice production and speech exercises. Learn about self presentation, develop spontaneity and gain greater confidence by improving your communication skills in the workplace.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Sonic or sound art is expression and creativity through sound, beyond the confines of music. Enjoy a series of creative exercises, with study and discussion of contemporary and historical context and practice, and create your own sound art.

Become part of a radio repertory company and take part in creating and recording for broadcast a performance of the radio play "The Wind in the Willows", adapted from Kenneth Grahame's classic novel by the tutor David Gooderson. For those with previous experience in acting and radio, either through courses or industry. Please click on Start Your Interview to apply; the Drama Department will contact you to progress your application.

This popular course explores musical theatre singing. Grow your knowledge of the repertoire. Suitable for singers and actors wanting to improve their singing and acting through song technique. Be guided through the basics to find the right singing qualities for this repertoire.

This class uses traditional dance stretches as its base and is ideal for anyone who would like to improve their flexibility, range of movement, improve alignment and relieve muscular tension. It is suitable for all ages and abilities and is the perfect warm-up for the Modern Jazz dance class that follows it.

Practice and improve your basic Tap skills and increase your vocabulary of steps and sequences. Gain a greater understanding of rhythm, tempo and syncopation. Suitable for students of all ages with good general fitness. Tap shoes are essential.

Come and enjoy reading aloud prepared passages from novels by Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens, while using your voice to provide narrative and create character. This unique course also contains technical vocal warm up and sight reading elements each week. The course will be held online, and the set novels are The Mayor of Casterbridge and A Christmas Carol.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Floor barre is a wonderful conditioning programme for everyone, regardless of age and ability. Work through all the important muscle groups while safely supporting the body on the floor. All levels welcome.

Come and discover the music of a brilliant father and daughter writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Samuel and Avril Coleridge-Taylor. These two conductor-composers enjoyed prestigious careers in the UK and America. We explore their lives and works.

Perfect if you've never taken a ballet class before, or if you did ballet as a child and want to return. This men’s ballet course provides slow and fun training in how to use your body correctly, with a focus on correct placement, stance and posture.

A friendly intensive class, that focuses on the confident execution of Flamenco dance with pleasure, passion and panache. This course is suitable for beginners as well as more experienced students wishing to revise the basics and learn fresh choreographies. Performance opportunities throughout the year. There is no class on Saturday 27th May.

Jacques Lecoq’s style of theatre training is in the body, it involves exploration of ourselves and the world we live in with a sense of curious play. Lecoq revolutionised the format of theatre craft and his style and techniques are recognised as essential tools to any professional working actor, in its most basic or grandest of themes. It is a style that hugs you warmly and sticks with you, adaptable and diverse.



The Lecoq technique is about the performers engagement, listening physically and their connection in the space, working together as an ensemble, devising your own work and finding new ways to do it are essential.

Explore, transpose and rehearse patterns of scales and chord tones relevant to improvising over jazz progressions. Ideal if you have completed 'Jazz harmony and ear training' and want to keep up your practice at home in a live group class.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.