Collaborate - Dance Intensive

THAT WAS COLLABORATE SUMMER 2026. 🖤

Three days.
12 masterclasses.
An incredible teaching faculty.
And a room full of dancers willing to learn, challenge themselves and try something different.

Some walked into classes completely in their comfort zone. Others stepped into styles they had never trained in before.

There were Standout moments, breakthroughs, new friendships, plenty of laughs — and so much learning in between.

That is what COLLABORATE is about.

Not being the best in the room.
Not arriving already able to do everything.

It’s about being willing to step into the room and grow.

To every dancer who joined us, every parent who made it possible, every school that supported their dancers attending and every member of our teaching faculty who shared their knowledge with us — thank you. 🤍

Summer 2026, you were pretty special.

And now we look ahead…

COLLABORATE EASTER 2027
6—8 APRIL
EDITION VII 👀

Save the dates.
We’re only getting started. 🔥

Every dancer seen. Every class counts.

SAMARA TONG — PERFORMANCE & ARTISTRY ✨

AND WE END OUR SUMMER MASTERCLASSES WITH SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 🤍

Day 3 began with an artistry challenge that stripped performance right back.

split the dancers into groups and taught each a piece of choreography built around the simplest of movement.

A walk. A change of direction. Taking up space.

Because sometimes performance isn’t about doing more. It’s about how you do less.

For the final run, one dancer volunteered from another group to became the focal performer, while the rest of the group used spacing, levels and movement to frame them and draw the audience’s focus.

And they absolutely threw themselves into it. 🔥

Creativity. Awareness. Adaptability. Artistry.

Such a clever exercise and the perfect masterclass to bring our COLLABORATE Summer 2026 lecturer series to a close.

12 masterclasses. Three days. So many different styles, approaches and ways of working.

Thank you to every member of our incredible Summer teaching faculty.

And thank you Samara. 🖤

RUBY — ACRO ✨

Our final masterclass took things back to strength, conditioning and technique with .

Beginning with conditioning and stretch, dancers prepared their bodies before moving into Acro skills — working safely through progressions appropriate to their individual level.

For some dancers that meant strengthening foundations. For our more advanced Acro dancers, there were opportunities to explore and develop new skills.

Individual progression rather than comparison. 🤍

And after three huge days of choreography, performance, technique and training, it was such a lovely way to bring COLLABORATE Summer 2026 to a close.

No Standouts needed for this one — just dancers working at their own level, on their own progression.

Thank you Ruby. 🖤

Chris pushed our Seniors straight into the foundations.

They began with drills, but this time Chris added another challenge — dancers had to keep the movement going while travelling around and navigating each other in the space.

No stopping. No losing the groove. No switching off.

Then came choreography that was complex enough to really challenge our experienced Street dancers, while dancers less familiar with the style had to dig in and keep working.

Because Hip Hop has its own movement language.

Groove. Rhythm. Foundations. Musicality.

And just like Contemporary, Lyrical or Freestyle, learning another genre means being willing to feel uncomfortable while your body figures something new out.

We LOVED seeing the reaction from dancers when something they’d been working on finally clicked. 🙌

Here are ’ Senior Standout dancers .swda.x .sinead_x 🔥

Thank you Chris 🖤

SAMARA TONG — JUNIOR CONTEMPORARY ✨

introduced our juniors to her Contemporary style with a real focus on understanding the detail within the movement — not simply learning the choreography.

Different movement quality. Different musicality. Different ways of using the body. That’s exactly why they’re here. 🔥

Our Juniors worked so hard, listening to the detail and allowing themselves to explore a different way of moving.

Here are Samara’s Junior Standout dancers .dances15

Thank you Samara 🤍

CHRISTOPHER DONNELLY — JUNIOR HIP HOP ✨

Here are Chris’ Junior Standout dancers - Group 2 asked to perform as a duet. but two!!

A brilliant class such a vibe!!!!

Thank you Chris 🖤

CHRISTOPHER DONNELLY — JUNIOR HIP HOP ✨

The juniors absolutely loved this one - Chris brought so much fun into the room, but underneath that energy was some seriously challenging Hip Hop training.

The choreography wasn’t simply about learning steps. Chris took dancers back to foundations, groove, rhythm and musicality, helping them understand what makes Hip Hop feel like Hip Hop.

And he got them moving from the very beginning with drills that were as much fun as they were valuable.

For some of our Juniors, this was familiar territory. For others, completely outside their normal training BUT the energy never dropped.

Here are Chris’ Junior Standout dancers - not just one group but two!! we’ll done group 1 .dances15

A brilliant class and a HUGE hit!

Thank you Chris 🖤

SAMARA TONG — SENIOR CONTEMPORARY ✨

DIFFERENT TEACHER. DIFFERENT MOVEMENT LANGUAGE. 🤍

Senior Contemporary masterclass asked our dancers to step into a movement style that, for many, felt completely different from their usual training.

And that’s the point.

There was a huge emphasis on detail — understanding the quality of each movement, where it originates and how seemingly small choices change the way choreography feels.

Our Seniors were challenged to stop relying on familiar movement patterns and really listen to what was being asked of them.

Three days into an intensive, tired bodies and tired brains… and they still committed. 🔥

Here are Samara’s Senior Standout dancers .discofeet._ .swda.x .

Another completely different layer of training.

Thank you Samara 🤍

ONE DAY 1 MOMENT WE COULDN’T LEAVE BEHIND… 🔥

Back to senior commercial masterclass for one Standout moment that absolutely deserves its place on the grid.

Midway through the masterclass, Wallis asked ._ to step forward and demonstrate — recognising not just the choreography, but the way she was performing from start to finish.

Her attitude. Her use of space. Her face. Her commitment to making every moment a performance, without looking for validation from the lecturer.

And when it came to her solo… you can hear Wallis’ reaction for yourself.

She came into the room ready to take everything from it… and that’s exactly what she did. 🔥

A very well-deserved Standout moment of her own.

Well done ._ 🖤

MORGAN HEMPHILL — FOOTWORK & MUSICALITY ✨

And we finished Day 2 by taking our dancers somewhere completely different. 🔥

Footwork & Musicality masterclass challenged dancers to think about movement from the ground up.

Working through footwork, weight placement, rhythm, hip action and coordination, dancers were asked to explore movement patterns that were very different from many of the styles they train in every week.

And that’s important.

Being a versatile dancer isn’t only about being able to perform different choreography, it’s about understanding how your body moves across different styles.

Some of this felt unfamiliar. Some of it really challenged them. But those are often the classes where there is the most to take away.

Rumba, Cha Cha and finishing with Samba.

A completely different way to finish Day 2 and another opportunity to add something new to the dancers’ training toolkit.

Thank you Morgan 🤍