Day: Wednesdays during termtime

Time : 4:00 -5:00 - 1 hour

Venue: Aqua Vale Leisure Centre, Park Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1DX

Ages : 13+ with SEND

Teaching Team: Alice,Chanel, Donna and Joy

This friendly and inclusive dance class is open to anyone over the age of 13 years with SEND. Each class is led by expierenced teacher Alice with the help of three friendly classroom assistants on hand to help encourage and demonstrate moves. Everyone is included and we offer a range of move options so that students can partipicate in a way that suits them. Students can also attend with their carers if they wish. 

We follow a structure each week so students know what to expect from the Dance class. We start with a sharing circle, Dance warm up led by the teacher, Dance warmup led by the students. Then we  learn or recap a dance routine. We usually work on a song for 4/5 weeks, sometimes longer if we are preparing for a show. After we have practiced our dance routine we then have a disco where students suggest songs and we all just have a boogie! This is then followed by a cool down stretch routine led by the staff.

One of the highlights for our Doorways Dance students is partipating in a local Dance festival held at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre each year in the Easter holidays. Take a look at our Performance Opportunities page for more info on this!

Doorways Dance originally started as a fully council run project over 10 years ago to create opportunities within the SEND community in Aylesbury. Alice has been teaching the class on behalf of the council for the last 4 years and in 2024 when the opportunity arose to take over the management of the class with her Theatre company Amber Elephant she was very excited to take the reigns. This amazing class will now continue on for many more years to come.  Bucks Council still proudly supports this fantastic class and it's entrance into Honeycomb Dance Festival each year. All admin and enquiries should be directed towards Alice at Amber Elephant. Alice@amberelephant.co.uk