Our Learn To Dance Autumn 2024 Quarterly Update includes:

News/Events Coming Up

• New Parking Restrictions
• Halloween Social
• Winter Dinner & Dance
• Erin Boag Workshop Day
• Ceilidh Live Band Event selling fast
• Glastonbury Dance Weekend booking fast
• Antony interviewed

What You May Have Missed

• 18th Anniversary Party
• Kristina Rihanoff Workshops
• Simply Swing Live Band Event
• YouTube Clips
• Latest Schedules to Download

Upcoming Workshops

• Sun 8th Sep – start of Beginner Jive Course
• Mon 9th Sep – start of Improver Quickstep Course
• Wed 11th Sep – start of Foxtrot ‘American Smooth’ Course
• Sun 10th Nov – Erin Boag Workshop Day

News & Events Coming Up

New Parking Restrictions

There are new parking restrictions in force at the Cherry Orchard.

Only the first 30 minutes of parking are now free (previously 2 hours) between the hours of 7am-7pm. There will still be no parking for the general public after 7pm.

Learn To Dance students will still receive free parking so long as they enter their number plate in the tablet provided.

This means that every student will need to enter their number plate when they arrive, but still only once per day.

Halloween Social

Our Halloween Social takes place on Friday 25th October. Doors open 7.30pm with dancing through to 10pm.

Dressing up is not compulsory but appreciated.

Tickets cost £8pp and advance booking is recommended.

Book now

Winter Dinner & Dance

Our Winter Dinner & Dance takes place on Friday 8th November.

Places cost £40pp and include a welcome drink and two course menu. We’re already 25% booked!

All bookings and menu choices required by 1st November Read more….

Erin Boag Workshop Day

Learn To Dance look forward to welcoming back Strictly Legend Erin Boag to our studio on Sunday .

Four workshops, covering different Ballroom dances, all over 25% booked already! Read more…

Ceilidh Live Band Event

On Friday 31st January 2025 we’ll be welcoming a live Ceilidh Band, Nedron’s Jig, to the studio for a fabulous Ceilidh night.

There’ll be a caller to instruct us in the various dances and it promises to be an entertaining evening.

We’re already 50% booked!

Tickets costs £35pp. Book Now

Glastonbury Dance Weekend

Our 2025 Glastonbury Dance Weekend is on sale. The weekend’s dance will be Viennese Waltz, with a Viennese Ball theme to the Saturday night.

Places costs £225pp, with an early bird booking discount of £15 if you pay in full by 30th November.

All solo rooms are already fully booked! Read more

Antony Interviewed

Last month Antony was interviewed for an upcoming article in My Weekly magazine about the return of Strictly, in the wake of the recent scandal.

His comments have featured in this week’s edition so feel free to pick a copy up if you like (it’s the one with Julie Andrews on the cover!)

Are you looking forward to the return of Strictly this year?

What You May Have Missed

18th Anniversary Party

Back in April we celebrated 18 years since the formation of Learn To Dance!

We are so grateful to all our students for their continued support. It’s great to say that we are finally back to full strength after all these post-COVID years.

In fact we’re already starting to make preparations for our grand 20 year anniversary in 2026!!!

Kristina Rihanoff

It was an intense set of sessions back in May with an afternoon of Latin American workshops with Kristina Rihanoff.

There were a lot of technical elements for the students to take away and work on, along with a few fun sequences they could add in to their existing repertoire.

Our next Strictly workshop day is Sunday 10th November with Erin Boag.

Simply Swing Live Band Event

Our first ever live band event at Learn To Dance took place on Friday 28th June.

It was amazing to be able to dance to live music in the studio and we received amazing feedback from the event.

We look forward to welcoming them back hopefully next year!

YouTube Clips

Those who follow our social media channels will know that we’ve been regularly uploading little clips from our various classes.

This is part of a wider marketing drive and you can check them out on our channel at YouTube.com/learndance.

Download Updated Schedules

Want to download our most recent schedules rather than picking up a printout? Use the links below:

• Beginner Details (updated 07/09/23)
• Dates for your Diary (updated 24/08/24)
• Schedule of Dances (updated 12/07/24)
• Class Timetable (list) (updated 22/08/24)
• Class Timetable (schedule) (updated 22/08/24)
• FitSteps Details (updated 08/01/24)
• Weekly Tea Dances (updated 08/01/24)

See you soon!

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A Weekend of Viennese Waltz

Join us on our Glastonbury Dance Break from 7th-9th March 2025, with the focus on the Viennese Waltz.

Dates: March 7th – 9th 2025
Location: The Wessex Hotel, Street

Get ready to step into a world of grace and glamour at our Viennese Waltz Glastonbury Dance Weekend! Hosted at The Wessex Hotel, this unforgettable event promises a perfect blend of dance and socialising, from Friday 7th to 9th March 2025.

Dance the Night Away with the Viennese Waltz

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Viennese Waltz during our themed weekend. Our highlight event is the Saturday night ‘Viennese Ball,’ where you can showcase your waltzing prowess in a beautiful ballroom.

What’s Included?

Your ticket to this magical weekend includes:

• Accommodation: Enjoy a comfortable stay at The Wessex Hotel with a choice of 15 double rooms, 15 twin rooms, and 10 solo rooms.
• Meals: Delight in delicious dining with dinner, bed, and breakfast included.
• Welcome Drinks: Start your weekend with a warm welcome and a refreshing drink.
• Tea and Coffee: Stay refreshed during our engaging workshops with complimentary tea and coffee.
• Dance Workshops: Participate in expert-led dance workshops designed to elevate your skills and confidence on the dance floor.
• Evening Dancing: Each evening we have a social dance featuring a variety of Ballroom and Latin American dancing, along with some sequence by request.

Enhance Your Technique

For those eager to refine their skills, we offer an exclusive ‘Improve Your Technique’ workshop on Saturday afternoon at 4:45 pm. This optional workshop is available for a £9 supplement and is a perfect opportunity to polish your technique before the grand ball.

Pricing and Availability

The entire weekend is priced at £225 per person (based on two sharing a room). We currently have:

• 7 Double Rooms Remaining
• 10 Twin Rooms Remaining
• Solo Rooms SOLD OUT

To ensure you secure your spot, book and pay in full before November 30th and enjoy a £15 per person discount. Alternatively you can pay a non-refundable £50 deposit to confirm your booking, with the remaining balance due by January 31 2025. For bookings made after November 30th, full payment is required at the time of booking.

Don’t miss out on this elegant escape. Book your place now and join us for a weekend of dance, delight, and sophistication!

How to Book our Viennese Waltz Dance Break

To reserve your room you can use the booking options below (to reserve a place for a partner visit our full booking system). For more information, contact us.

Embrace the magic of the Viennese Waltz and create memories to cherish forever at the Glastonbury Dance Weekend!

Make sure to secure your room and enjoy a £15 per person discount by booking before November 30th. We look forward to dancing with you!

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Our New Year 2024 Quarterly Update includes:

News/Events Coming Up

• Tango & Samba Courses Starting This Week
• Deadline for Glastonbury Weekend Bookings
• Valentine Dinner & Dance
• Flavia Cacace Argentine Tango Workshop Day
• Charity Silent Social
• Good Friday Afternoon Tea

What You May Have Missed

• Bournemouth Dance Weekend
• Erin Boag Ballroom Workshops
• Latest Schedules to Download

Upcoming Workshops

• Mon 8th Jan – start of Tango Course
• Wed 10th Jan – start of Samba Course
• Sun 25th Feb – Flavia Cacace Argentine Tango Workshop Day

Look out for our other Guest Instructor workshops and One Dance Courses to be announced.

News & Events Coming Up

Tango & Samba Courses

This week sees our new One Dance Courses commencing. Tonight will be Tango and Wednesday Samba.

Courses cost £50pp and start at 7pm. Both courses can be booked online or contact us for more information.

Deadline for Glastonbury Bookings

Wednesday 31st January is the booking deadline for our Glastonbury Cha Cha Dance weekend.

Dinner, bed & breakfast; morning Cha Cha workshops, as well as a Bollywood theme on the Saturday night.

Read more….

Valentine Dinner & Dance

Our Valentine Dinner & Dance takes place on Friday 9th February.

Places cost £40pp and include a welcome drink and two course menu.

All bookings and menu choices required by 2nd February Read more….

Flavia Cacace Workshop Day

Learn To Dance look forward to welcoming Strictly Legend Flavia Cacace to our studio on Sunday 25th February.

Four workshops, covering different aspects of Argentine Tango, all over 50% booked already! Read more…

Charity Silent Social

Last year’s Silent Social for Comic Relief was such a huge hit that we couldn’t wait to have another one! We will be repeating the event on Friday 15th March.

All participants are issued with headsets that can tune into one of three channels: Ballroom, Latin American, General.

Places cost £20pp and are available to book now.

Good Friday Afternoon Tea

Following the success of last year’s Good Friday Afternoon Tea we are making this a permanent fixture.

The event will take place on Friday 29th March but we are just waiting on confirmation of final costings before we can make it available to book.

What You May Have Missed

Bournemouth Dance Weekend

Our ever-popular Bournemouth Dance Weekend was a great success, with some wonderful masks for the masquerade ball.

Unfortunately the dance floor in the suite we hire is not being well-maintained and we are currently looking for a new venue for this year’s break.

We hope to have something arranged within the next month and more details will be released when available.

Erin Boag Ballroom Workshops

Back in November we were honoured to welcome Strictly Legend Erin Boag to our dance studio for an afternoon of workshops.

We had excellent feedback from the students that attended and we’ll be expanding the range of guest instructor workshops that we offer.

Next up is Flavia Cacace in February!

Download Updated Schedules

Want to download our most recent schedules (as at 8th January 2024), rather than picking up a printout? Use the links below:

• Beginner Details
• Dates for your Diary
• Schedule of Dances
• Class Timetable (list)
• Class Timetable (schedule)
• FitSteps Details
• Weekly Tea Dances
• Good Friday Afternoon Tea Dance Details
• Valentine Dinner & Dance

See you soon!

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Our Spring 2023 Quarterly Update includes:

News/Events Coming Up

• Anniversary Party this Friday
• Deadline for Bournemouth Discount
• Spring Dinner & Dance Deadline
• School Closed over the Coronation Weekend
• Sunday Workshop Changes
• Changes to Social Event regularity
• Waltz & Jive Courses starting next month

What You May Have Missed

• First Dance Choreography Award
• Glastonbury Dance Weekend
• ‘Silent’ Social For Comic Relief
• Good Friday Afternoon Tea
• A Tribute To Len

Upcoming Workshops

• Sun 30th Apr – Bossa Nova 66 Sequence
• Wed 17th May – start of Jive Course
• Mon 22nd May – start of Waltz Course
• Sun 25th June – Tango Serida Sequence

Other workshops will be announced subject to decisions made about our plans to change Sunday workshops.

News & Events Coming Up

Anniversary Party Fri 28th Apr

This Friday sees us celebrating 17 years of Learn To Dance! The evening starts from 7pm with welcome drinks and socialising, then the evening dancing starts from 8.30pm.

Advance booking preferred, to allow us to make sure we have enough bubbly! However you can just turn up on the night. Read more….

Bournemouth Discount Deadline

Sunday 30th April is the payment deadline for saving £15pp on our Bournemouth Dance weekend.

We’ll have Waltz & Salsa workshops, as well as a masquerade ball on the Saturday night.

You’ll need to pay in full by the end of Sunday to receive the discount. Read more….

Spring Dinner & Dance Deadline

Our Spring Dinner & Dance takes place on Friday 5th May but the booking deadline is Friday 28th April.

There’ll be a red/white/blue theme in honour of the King’s Coronation and places cost £37.50pp. Read more….

School Closed Coronation Weekend

The school will be closed on Sunday 7th May to allow everyone to partake in whatever festivities communities may be hosting.

Sunday Workshop Changes

Due to declining numbers in our Sunday workshops we have made the decision to cancel Sunday Improver, Intermediate and Advanced workshops with immediate effect.

Sunday Sequence & Social workshops will continue for the moment.

For the next few weeks both Antony & Denise will open up additional private lesson availability whilst we review what will take place on Sundays.

Read more and let us know what you’d like us to replace them with….

Changes to Social Event Regularity

As we now host a wide variety of social events over the course of the year we are going to reduce the number of Friday night socials.

Instead of having a monthly Friday social we will only host them every two months, when we don’t have another event that month.

As such our next standard social will be Friday 30th June, with our Halloween social then on Friday 27th October.

Waltz & Jive Courses starting next month

Our next One Dance Courses start in May. There will be a Jive course starting from Wednesday 17th May, and a Waltz course from Monday 22nd May.

Courses cost £45pp for a 6 week course. The courses get extended in 6 week blocks and often run for 18 weeks in total. Read more….

What You May Have Missed

Hitched First Dance Choreography Award Winners

Hitched, the popular wedding booking portal, awarded us with an award for our Wedding Frist Dance Choreography this year!

The awards are voted for by actual wedding couples and we’re honoured that so many of our first dance couples from last year voted for us to win. Read more….

Glastonbury Dance Weekend

We had another great break down in Street near Glastonbury. This year we were teaching Quickstep and had a ‘Charleston’ theme to the Saturday night.

It’s always wonderful that so many of our students take the time to make the effort for these themes.

Remember our next dance break will be Bournemouth in October and you can save £15pp if you book and pay in full before the end of this month! Read more….

‘Silent’ Social for Comic Relief

Back in March we held a Ballroom and Latin American Silent Disco in aid of Comic Relief.

It was a great night and thank you to everyone who attended, or donated if they were unable to make it.

Overall we raised over £600 for Comic Relief, well in excess of our £250 target, and many students asked us when we were going to host the next one! Read more….

Good Friday Afternoon Tea

This year we decided to trial having our Spring afternoon tea on Good Friday, the idea being to allow you to pencil the date in every year.

It was a sell-out event and everyone had a great time.

Our next catered event is the Spring Dinner & Dance, and our next Afternoon Tea will be at Christmas (details soon).

A Tribute To Len

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See you soon!

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We will again be visiting The Wessex Hotel in Street and look forward to dancing in their wonderful ballroom. It’s definitely the highlight of the Glastonbury dance weekend (though some would argue the Clark’s Shopping Village on the doorstep is a close second).

Next year’s Glastonbury dance break weekend will concentrate on Jive.  We run a single 2 hour workshop that starts with a simple sequence that gets progressively harder and students can stop if they feel they have reached their limit and just practice what they’ve learnt up to that point.

The weekend (2 nights) costs £175 per person and this includes dinner, bed and breakfast.

All prices are based on 2 sharing a room. £40 single room supplement (ALL OUR INITIAL ALLOCATION OF SINGLE ROOMS ARE FULLY BOOKED. PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU’RE INTERESTED AND WE CAN ENQUIRE ABOUT FURTHER AVAILABILITY WITH THE HOTEL).

What happens on the dance break?

The Jive dance weekend will include:

• check in from 3pm
• 3 course meal each evening followed by Ballroom & Latin American dancing.
• breakfast on Saturday and Sunday
• Jive dance workshop on the Saturday and Sunday mornings
• ‘Improve your Jive’ technique class Saturday afternoon (£5 supplement)
• ‘Rock & Roll’ theme on the Saturday night

We did have a Rock & Roll theme on one of our recent Bournemouth dance weekends and you can see the sort of outfits people went for below:

Book our Glastonbury Jive Dance Weekend Break

The Jive dance weekend break costs £175 per person with a £50 per person non-refundable deposit required by 30^th November.  You can save £15 per person if you book and pay in full by 30^th November, balance payable 31^st January 2022.

Payments can be made via cash, cheque, or BACS to 30-97-73 23264368. Alternatively you can use the booking option below (NOTE: to reserve a space for someone else please click here):

Places are selling fast so if you want to join us for our Jive dance weekend don’t delay, book today!

See detail of our other social events and dance holidays on our events page.

Check out some of our past Glastonbury Dance Breaks

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On this single-dance focused break we start the workshop off with an introductory sequence that gets progressively harder throughout the 2 hour session. There’s also a recap workshop on the Sunday to help you cement the sequence before you go home.

Saturday afternoon we offer an optional technique class available for a supplement. In this technique class we often look at improving your general technique, as well as any tips to help with the sequences we’re covering.

What’s This Year’s Theme?

We always have a theme to our dance weekends. On the Saturday night of our 2020 Glastonbury Dance Weekend we will have a ‘Black & Red’ themed ball. We ran a similar theme on our Bournemouth Dance Weekend in 2016, Latin Love, and you can see some of the photos from that break below.

What’s The Format?

Our 2020 Glastonbury Dance Weekend will include:
– check in from 3pm
– 3 course meal each evening
– breakfast on Saturday & Sunday
– dance workshop on Saturday & Sunday morning
– ‘Improver Your Tango’ workshop on Saturday afternoon for a £5 supplement
– ‘Black & Red’ themed ball on Saturday

2020 Glastonbury Dance Weekend Cost

Our 2020 Glastonbury Dance Weekend costs £165 per person (based on two sharing).

There is a non-refundable £50pp deposit required by 30th November 2019 with the balance payable by 31st January 2020. You can save £15pp if you book and pay in full before 30th November 2019.

Our single rooms without supplement are fully booked, any further single rooms are subject to a single person supplement of £40 although we do have a number of twin rooms for those happy to share.

Dancing isn’t compulsory so feel free to come just for the social aspect too!

Book now!

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