Many congratulations and a big WELL DONE to each and every student for these fabulous British Arts exam results! Click for full details...
Read MoreThe British Arts Awards 2018: Our Story So Far
LATEST: all our JMDS British Arts Awards finalists!
Read MoreSummer School 2018: Booking Open!
The how, where and when of Summer School 2018. Be there or be missing out!
Read MoreAWESOME ISTD Ballet Exam Results!
Huge congratulations to all of you who have not only passed your recent ballet exams but have achieved these really excellent marks. I am very proud of you and how hard you focused and worked. WELL DONE!
Read MoreChesham Arts Festival 2018: the Pictures
Pics from JMDS's triumphant week at the Chesham Arts Festival 2018!
Read MoreChesham Arts Festival 2018: the Results
MANY CONGRATULATIONS to all who represented the Jayne Marie Dancing School so brilliantly at this year’s Chesham Arts Festival.
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Chesham Arts Festival 2018: WHO'S IN??
All the info you need to enter the next CAF: categories, time limits, age limits and costs. ACT FAST! The deadline is 17th November.
Read MorePhoto Gallery: Choreography Competition 2017
Six (count 'em!) hours of dance, drama and singing: our biggest ever number of entries. Huge congratulations to everyone who took part: you rocked : D
Read MoreChoreography Competition 2017 Programme (updated version)
All the items in this year's choreography competition. It's going to be long, but amazing! Looking forward to seeing you there.
Read MoreIt's World Ballet Day!
Classical ballet is at the heart of all our activities at JMDS. Our students are taught the basic positions and movements from age two, progressing through the various grades by exams until, usually as teens, they display all the characteristics of dancers in the country's leading ballet companies.
Read More'By Special Request' Revisited
To mark the delivery of the By Special Request DVDs, here are some official show pics for you. What a photogenic lot our students are : D
Read MoreAudition opportunity!
Why not give this audition a try? We have a history of success with the English Youth Ballet, usually getting at least six pupils into the ballet performances. It's such good experience and I highly recommend some of you have a go (you must be aged 8 or over). Coppelia is such a lovely character ballet.
Please read the details carefully and let me know if you'll be auditioning. Please remember to wear your JMDS uniform and zip up hoody, if you have one, to the audition, and to write 'The Jayne Marie Dancing School' in full (not just 'JMDS') on the form.
Wishing lots of our fabulous dance students the very best of luck.
Miss Jayne
2018 London Children's Ballet auditions
Not all audition opportunities are created equal, but the London Children's Ballet is definitely one of the worthwhile ones. We've had students perform with LCB in the past; they have loved the experience and learned loads.
Read MoreJMDS Choreography Competition 2017
Lola, 11, performing at the 2015 JMDS Choreography Competition
One of my favourite days when I was a young dancer was Choreography Competition. If you've never entered the JMDS choreography competition, why not give it a go this year? It's your chance to work on an item on your own or as part of a duet or group with some friends, and perform it on stage
Read More*All new for September '17* Musical Theatre Class
To add to our award-winning (seven British Arts awards this year alone, dontcha know) Drama department we bring you our all new Musical Theatre class. JAZZ HANDS!
Read MoreAnother FABulous Summer School!
We danced, we crafted, we ate a million Nutella pancakes, we picnic'd in Hyde Park, we watched some amazing kids in Annie, and we performed. It was bladdy marvellous - and here are the photos to prove it...
Read MoreSummer School Items Announced!
Less than a week to go until this year's summer school, and Miss Jayne has announced the items we'll be working on and performing on the Friday. 'Citing!
Read MoreMia, 9, & Ayla, 14, review 'By Special Request' & Presentation Day 2017
Two JMDS students on their experience of this year's show and Presentation Day.
Read MoreWhy we will never teach our students like they do in Dance Moms
It has become fashionable to teach a method of dancing that relies on stretches and contortions such as side tilts, needles and scorpions; or to have younger and younger girls going en pointe. This might be good for Instagram, but it is not the way JMDS teaches – and it never will be.
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