The Stadium Theatre School

About The Stadium Theatre School

Established in 2010 The Stadium Theatre School prides itself in being fresh and forward thinking. Offering street dance classes on Thursdays 4pm-7pm and Dance, Drama and Singing classes on Saturdays. Learn new skills, gain confidence and make friends within our performing arts and dance classes.

The Stadium Theatre School is run by professional dancer, actor and choreographer Micheal Downing. He has toured America working with the Osmond Brothers, toured UK with Take That on their sell out stadium tour 'The Circus'. Danced on X-factor, The Brit Awards, and various music videos including 2 for Olly Murs. He performed in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, was invited to Lithuania and Canada as international guest judge for 2 dance competitions. And recently filmed with Daniel Radcliffe in the movie Igor (release 2015).

The school offers many opportunities for the students to perform, we have two shows a year at Christmas and Summer and also with Epping Forest District Council performing in Motiv8 and Engage. These are shows organised by the council offering opportunities for local dance schools to come together to perform in various theatres.

THURSDAYS-Street Dance/ Urban Jazz.

St Michaels Church Hall, Roding Road, Loughton, IG10 3EJ.

Age 5-10 years 4pm-5pm (1 hour).
Age 11-14 years 5pm-6pm (1 hour).
Age 15-19 years 6pm-7pm (1 hour).

This is a very popular style of dance that can be seen in pop videos and on MTV. Classes always start with a warm up to current pop/RnB music. The warm up is high energy and will work on building stamina, strength and flexibility. This is followed by corner work and further specialized dance exercises focussed on co-ordination. Students then learn a challenging routine to music. Within the class the students will continue to develop their co-ordination, strength, flexibility, stamina, rhythm, dynamics, balance and performance.


SATURDAYS- Theatre Schools (Dance, Drama and Singing/Musical Theatre).

CHIGWELL BRANCH – West Hatch High School, Chigwell High Road, Chigwell, IG7 5BT.
Age 5-7 years (Yellow) 10am-1pm (3 hours).
Age 8-10 years (Red) 10am-1pm (3 hours).
Age 11-16 years (Blue) 10am-1pm (3 hours).

LOUGHTON BRANCH – Epping Forest College, Borders Lane, Loughton, IG10 3SA.
Age 5-7 years (Yellow) 2pm-5pm (3 hours).
Age 8-10 years (Red) 2pm-5pm (3 hours).
Age 11-16 years (Blue) 2pm-5pm (3 hours).

All ages start with one big warm up to focus the students ready for their action packed morning. They are then divided into groups and engage in dance, drama, singing and musical theatre lessons. Dance develops coordination, rhythm, flexibility and balance through learning jazz, street and musical theatre dance routines. Drama explores creativity through improvisation and role-play, improving vocabulary and diction and encouraging the students to use their imagination. Musical Theatre incorporates a vocal warm up plus singing techniques which caters for a range of abilities such as creating songs and different rhythms for the younger Yellow group versus working on harmonies, up-to-date pop and musical theatre songs for the older Red and Blue groups.

For more info please call or email, 07525 129 012.