Weekly classes · Jazz dance
Jazz Dance
Classes in
Plymouth.
Weekly jazz dance classes in Plymouth city centre for adults who love the look of a stage routine — the kicks, the turns, the sharp lines — and want to learn how it's actually built. Technique taught properly, at a beginner's pace, with a routine to show for it every block. £10 a class or £32 for four weeks, nothing to sign.
Jazz is where technique meets showing off. We teach the technique so the showing off comes naturally.
Kicks · turns · isolations · adults 17 to 75Join the class
Step into
the spotlight.
Send the form and we'll reply with the jazz timetable, the studio we use in the city centre and a couple of pointers for your first session.
- Ten pounds a class, or £32 for a block of four
- Real technique — pliés, kicks and pirouettes — taught from scratch
- A personal reply, not an auto-response, within 24 hours
Class details
Jazz,
every single week.
At a glance
- Location Plymouth City Centre
- Day Sent with your timetable
- Time Evenings
- Level Beginner-friendly
- Age group 17 – 75
- Partner needed No
About jazz dance classes in Plymouth
Jazz is the style behind most of what you see on a musical-theatre stage or in a music video, and our jazz dance classes in Plymouth teach it as a technique rather than a vibe. That means pliés and tendus at the start, isolations of head, shoulders and ribs, and a proper approach to kicks, leaps and turns — all at a beginner's speed, with the reasons explained. The pay-off is a routine each block that looks polished because the pieces underneath it are. Expect big music, big shapes and a teacher who explains why the arm goes there rather than just where.
On our Plymouth class timetable jazz sits between the discipline of ballet and the punch of commercial styles, which is why dancers from both directions tend to add it. Couples occasionally borrow what they learn here for a first dance with a bit more theatre than the usual sway. Others come simply because they miss the dance classes they did at school and want that feeling back on a weeknight.
How the class is structured
The first fifteen minutes are a warm-up that is really a technique class in miniature: pliés for the knees, rises for the feet, isolations to wake up the torso and a stretch sequence that gets longer as the weeks go on. Next comes travelling work across the floor — walks, chassés, kicks and turns, each broken into its component parts and drilled in both directions. The last twenty-five minutes build a routine to a big, brassy track, which develops across the four-week block so that newcomers learn the opening and regulars keep extending it. Nobody performs alone, the groups are small and the emphasis is on clean shapes over speed. Every class ends with a cool-down stretch and a quick look at what's coming next week, so you always know where the routine is heading.
Where it goes
One block of jazz,
layer by layer.
Jazz builds in clear layers, which makes progress easy to see. Here's how a first block usually unfolds.
Alignment and isolations
Learning to move one part of the body while the rest stays still — the foundation of every jazz shape.
Across the floor
Jazz walks, chassés and the first proper kicks, travelled in lines with the music underneath.
Turns and leaps
Pirouette preparation, pivot turns and a simple leap — the moments that make jazz look like jazz.
The routine
A full show-style routine to a big track, danced in groups with real attack and, ideally, jazz hands.
Why jazz
What jazz
leaves you with.
More than a routine — the things our jazz regulars say they've taken home from a term in the studio.
- Flexibility that improves week on week
- Core strength from constant isolation work
- Performance confidence you can feel on stage or off
- Cleaner lines in every other style you dance
- Stamina — a jazz routine is a proper cardio session
- Musicality and attack, hitting accents on the beat
- Stage-craft basics: focus, projection, finishing a move
- A weekly dose of pure, unapologetic showbiz
Jazz questions
Ask us
about jazz.
Ten short replies for anyone in Plymouth toying with the idea of jazz. Anything not covered, send it through the form.
01Do I need previous dance training?
No. The class assumes nothing and teaches the vocabulary from the ground up — what a plié is, how a chassé travels, why we isolate. Anyone who did dance as a child will find it comes back quickly; everyone else starts level.
02Is this jazz as in jazz music?
Jazz dance grew out of jazz music but today it's the technique behind musical theatre and show dancing, so the tracks range from big-band brass to modern pop with a theatrical edge. Expect Broadway energy more than a smoky jazz club.
03Is it partner work?
No — jazz is a solo style danced in groups, so you'll be in a line with the rest of the class rather than paired up. Come alone or bring a friend; it makes no difference to the class.
04Is there a kit list for jazz?
Fitted, stretchy clothes you can move and see your shape in, plus jazz shoes if you own them or clean trainers with a thin sole if you don't. We don't provide footwear or any kit, so bring your own and a water bottle.
05How flexible do I need to be?
Not at all to start. Flexibility is something the class builds — every session includes stretching, and most people gain a surprising amount of range over one block. Kicks get higher over time; nobody expects them high on day one.
06What are the prices?
£10 for a single jazz class, or £32 for a four-week block, which brings each class down to £8. No enrolment fee, no membership, and you're never tied into a term.
07Where in the city are the classes?
We use a hired studio in Plymouth city centre; it's a short stroll from the railway station, close to the main bus stops, and there are car parks nearby. The exact venue and room come with the timetable we send when you enquire.
08Will there be a performance at the end?
Not a public one — the routine is danced for each other in the studio at the end of the block, and that's as far as it goes unless the group asks for more. It's about the doing, not an audience.
09I'm in my fifties — is it too late for jazz?
No. The age range in the class runs from 17 to 75 and jazz technique scales to any body; kicks are as high as they're comfortable, turns are taught with control first. Plenty of our jazz dancers came to it later in life.
10Can I drop in once before committing?
Yes — that's the point of the £10 single-class option. Try one, see how the teacher's style suits you, and book a four-week block from the following week if it clicks.