READY SET DANCE is an Australian made program and is the brainchild of four of the biggest dance schools in New South Wales. They discovered their passion for classes for the youngest students when many of them became mothers, and thought between them to make a brand new program suitable for the children of today. What they came up with became one of the most successful dance business ventures in recent years.
This one hour combo class includes jazz, tap, hip hop and singing, and all the music is written by music producers who worked on other popular kids tv shows such as ‘Play School’ and ‘Giggle and Hoot’. Designed to be appealing to both Boys and Girls, the program focuses on creating fun, memorable and fast-paced exercises for kids, whilst subtly teaching students about musicality, rhythm, spatial awareness and interpersonal skills, as well as keeping children active and healthy.
A companion program to READY SET DANCE, READY SET BALLET is a half hour ballet class designed to teach the classic moves of this style in a fun, exciting way to young students. This class has the same focus and formula as READY SET DANCE.
The music has been created by music producers who wok on childrens’ shows such as ‘Play School’ and ‘Giggle and Hoot’, and has key instructions for children that employ their imagination and bodily awareness to learn the movement. The exercises have been designed in such a way as to make children feel as if they are playing as opposed to doing exercise, and children all over Australia and New Zealand enjoy this program.
Ready Set Ballet can be taken in combination with Ready Set Dance, or as a separate class.
READY SET ACRO is a collaborative AcroDance program developed between industry leaders in Ready Set and Acrobatic Arts. It emphasises learning safe and effective progressions to foster the physical and social skills needed for a healthy early childhood development.
Using the three S’s, preschoolers are encouraged to master the fundamentals of AcroDance technique, whilst still engaging in a fun and playful setting. Safe, individual progression is fostered by teachers, as students work towards more advanced skills like baby bridges, pre-handstands, and pre-cartwheels.
In an energetic kick-start into the world of Cheer, children will learn the basics and fundamentals of tumbling, stunting, jumps, and cheer dance. This class is packed full of fun and taught by qualified coaches. Tumbling skills learnt include handstands, cartwheels and rolls; partner and group stunting is taught safely through low-level lifts and pyramid building, and all is learnt while using games and challenges to create a stimulating and enjoyable class environment.
We have tailored our Tiny Cheer program to ensure children progress at their own individual rate, and learn to trust their teammates and coaches in a safe and nurturing environment.
Team Building
The sport of cheer requires trust in your fellow athletes, and this is important to build from the very beginning.
Semi-Competitive
Every year, our Tiny Team enter their learned routine into a local competition, to show off all they’ve learnt, and mark their progress against their peers.
Ballet has long been referred to as one of the most elegant and classic styles of dance. Whilst certainly being strictly rule-based and enforcing etiquette, the style by no means should be treated as if it is superior to any other style.
Ballet is the base for strong, technical dancers, and a solid foundation in this dance style and its rules teaches a dancer body awareness and placement, as all the technique this style teaches apply across almost all dance styles. Ballet builds a strong core strength, flexibility and artistry, and develops an understanding between a dancer and their body that is unique to ballet.
Respect and etiquette are important in the dance studio, and ballet’s rules explain this in the clearest way. When a teacher gives you correction, they are helping you to fix a problem that you may not see. It takes many years of intense training to develop the ability to correct one’s own dancing, and it takes a special kind of dancer to be able to correctly pass on knowledge to the next generation.
Jazz is a highly popular dance form and requires strength, technique and high energy. In todays dance world Jazz dancing is present in many differing forms. Broadway jazz, commercial jazz, and traditional jazz are all components of the umbrella term that ‘Jazz’ covers. All have their own intricacies and quirks that are individual to each style, and each offer a vast array of lesson that can be learned, and dance opportunities that are available.
Each term students at Complete will learn something new in class, and will amass a range of technique and performance abilities that will help them across multiple styles of dance. Without the focus on exams for this style, students have the opportunity to put all their effort into improving their skills, and have more time to enjoy the vast array of styles and dances that are taught in our Jazz classes.
AcroDance is a program is based on safe and effective progressions with proven results in five divisions of AcroDance: flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering and tumbling. Developed with input from professionals and experts in ballet, modern dance, jazz, contortion, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, sport acrobatics, yoga, acro yoga, pilates, physiotherapy, hand balancing and more. Simple thoughtful progressions take the beginner preschool level dancer from log rolls and somersaults to the advanced dancer tumbling effortlessly across the stage!
Tap is hugely popular worldwide, and here in Australia, particularly here in the Hunter region, tap has undergone its own journey with the Tap Dogs. Traditionally a very classic dance style, tap dance now various in use and style almost as much as jazz, from slow tap and classic tap, to broadway tap and fast tap. New moves and sounds are constantly being created in this genre, and students love to learn huge number of different moves they can do.
At Complete students learn the Glenn Wood Tap Syllabus in which our principal is highly qualified in, as well as having been trained by two of the Tap Dogs. Updated and reimagined regularly, The Glenn Wood syllabi is founded on solid technique, whilst being fluid, relaxed and enjoyable, and is a dynamic tap dance syllabus that is fun for students to learn.
Pioneered by key choreographers such as as Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Akram Khan and Alvin Ailey, contemporary and lyrical dance has evolved from its humble beginnings as simple extensions and challenging of the rules in Ballet.
This class can offer a dancer the chance to improve their performance skills and use a variety of techniques to enhance their versatility as a dancer.
Having it’s origin in cultural music styles, Hip Hop has become an increasingly popular style of dance for students to enjoy. With it’s strong pop beat and identifiable lyrics, this genre allows students to get down and groove and become as “cool” as they can. It’s popularity has also increased as it is seen used more and more by back-up performers for hip hop and pop music artists of the day.
Hip Hop is almost the complete opposite of the Classical Ballet style, with students needing to get down low to the ground to execute the moves, and isolate and pop’n’lock on every other beat. That said, some fabulous Hip Hop dancers started with classical training and managed to “fake it till they make it”, including our own Miss Mady.
Musical theatre is a theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a piece are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. With repertoire ranging from known pop songs, to traditional and new age musical songs, this genre is great for those wanting to shine on stage in a different way by adding the vocal component.
Being en pointe is a goal for many young dancers, and is a peak achievement in ballet. Known for being incredibly hard, and often harsh on a dancers feet, pointe should never be taken lightly. It takes many years to develop the strength, fluidity and expression demonstrated by professional dancers, and having a strong technical foundation is key to reaching these heights whilst also preventing injury.
Our Pointe classes are dedicated to building up dancers’ strength, flexibility, core stability, and proprioception (body awareness), before going up onto pointe, and then maintaining this strength whilst en pointe. Through intense training and regular pointe ability tests, our teachers ensure that students are not only prepared in the body for pointe work, but also in the mind, to be able to learn this skill in a comfortable and safe way.
POM is a high energy, fast-paced form of dance movement, with influence from both traditional Dance, and traditional Cheerleading. POM provides an intense experience and leaves spectators with lasting impression.
A POM routine contains important characteristics such as strong POM technique (clean, precise and sharp motions), synchronization, visual effects and may incorporate POM Skills (i.e. POM passes, jump sequences, leaps/turns, kick lines, etc.).
POM will have an opportunity to compete in Newcastle competitions towards the end of 2021. This is not compulsory and will be decided on throughout the year with the development of the teams.
Cheer is a fast-paced team sport that combines elements of stunting, tumbling, baskets, pyramids, jumps, and dance into an action-packed routine.
Backed by national and international governing bodies, safety in execution and development is a prime component of a Cheer program. Through strict and well-researched rules and guidelines, all students are kept as safe as possible through their training and competition days, and can develop their skills and knowledge at their own pace.
MEETING A SCORECARD
When competing, teams must safely execute as many skills in the required fields as they can, with technical proficiency, in a 2:30 minute time limit. Every level and division has restrictions on what skills and stunts are allowed, and any mistake, fall, or out-of-level skill can result in a deduction from your judged score. The highest score of each division wins, and getting no deductions, or “hitting zero”, is a coveted achievement.
BENEFITS
Creating an entertaining, technically sound, and eye-catching routine is the aim in this world. Choreographers can take inspiration from just about anywhere, and interpret music or genre in a multitude of ways, to try to showcase a team’s strengths, and tell an interesting story. With our experienced and professional staff, students will learn two unique routines of relating styles per team, and prepare these for the competition season.
As there is only so much time in a lesson, and mastering a routine is imperative to being competitive, there are multiple required lessons for dance teams. No audition is ever necessary, however attendance at the relating style recreational classes, weekly technique classes, and weekly training are all compulsory to be eligible for the team. Think of each class as targeting a different aspect of the competitive dancer.
Recreational Class
Mastering style and performance
Technique Class
Improving technical execution
Rehearsal Class
Perfecting the competition routine
READY SET DANCE is an Australian made program and is the brainchild of four of the biggest dance schools in New South Wales. They discovered their passion for classes for the youngest students when many of them became mothers, and thought between them to make a brand new program suitable for the children of today. What they came up with became one of the most successful dance business ventures in recent years.
This one hour combo class includes jazz, tap, hip hop and singing, and all the music is written by music producers who worked on other popular kids tv shows such as ‘Play School’ and ‘Giggle and Hoot’. Designed to be appealing to both Boys and Girls, the program focuses on creating fun, memorable and fast-paced exercises for kids, whilst subtly teaching students about musicality, rhythm, spatial awareness and interpersonal skills, as well as keeping children active and healthy.
READY SET DANCE is an Australian made program and is the brainchild of four of the biggest dance schools in New South Wales. They discovered their passion for classes for the youngest students when many of them became mothers, and thought between them to make a brand new program suitable for the children of today. What they came up with became one of the most successful dance business ventures in recent years.
This one hour combo class includes jazz, tap, hip hop and singing, and all the music is written by music producers who worked on other popular kids tv shows such as ‘Play School’ and ‘Giggle and Hoot’. Designed to be appealing to both Boys and Girls, the program focuses on creating fun, memorable and fast-paced exercises for kids, whilst subtly teaching students about musicality, rhythm, spatial awareness and interpersonal skills, as well as keeping children active and healthy.
EXAMS
Exams provide students with important and achievable goals to work towards, and by achieving those goals we see a remarkable boost in self-confidence, dedication, progression, motivation, and work ethic. Studying for a dance exam promotes discipline and commitment within the studio environment, a skill which benefits students past the dance world and into future endeavours.
SOLOS / PRIVATE CLASSES
One on one
RHYTHM WORKS
One on one
READY SET MOVE is a creative movement and music class for toddlers and their grown up. Young children at this age are in the period of highest brain growth and development in their lifespan.
Participating in READY SET MOVE with the support of a grown up can make a significant contribution to play, development and learning. Through developing the Three E’s, toddlers will learn the fundamentals of movement and music that will set them up for success in many aspects of life.