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Totteridge academy

Wildfire Performance Arts, currently operate two successful classes at The Totteridge Academy Gymnasium.
We are an established Totteridge-based Dance and Performance Arts School offering professional classes, showcases and exams rehearsing both indoors and outdoors, managed by experienced and highly qualified dance performers.
 
We have a wide span of top dance celebrity supporters including, AJ and Curtis Pritchard from Strictly and Love Island and Kimberly Wyatt from the Pussycat Dolls.
 
Bursary
We are delighted to offer a non-means-tested Bursary, to all dance-loving Totteridge Academy students ages 12 to 18, for our classes on Tuesdays and Sundays – at a rate of only £6.50 per hour.
(Normal prices are £9.50 to £12.50)
 
WildTrix Tuesdays – 5pm to 7pm – Acrobatic Dance classes where our students learn and perfect acrobatic dance skills like cartwheels, walkovers, aerials, and more, working towards an IDTA certificate qualification.
 
WildFire Squad Sundays, 3pm to 6pm – Our Competitive Athletic Dance Squad, trains in all styles and genres, attending all major UK competitions from Street Dance, to Ballet, to Acrobatics heats at major UK Theatres and Venues.
 
Dancers need not be experienced, all we look for is enthusiasm and great team spirit – we’ll take care of the dance technique.
We are proud to have 4 Hendon GC Gymasts with us, honing their dance floor skills, all of whom are National Champions for British Gymnastics.
 
RAD GCSEs and A Level Prep and School Entry Choreography
Many of our students go on to do the part-time weekend A-level and GCSE courses at the Royal Academy of Dance and we are delighted to work with the school on our events. We create unforgettable routines to showcase for prestigious school entry exams, with a 100% entry pass rate to date.
 
Free Squad Training for Squad members.
If a student at TTA is currently with a Gymnastics Squad needing additional dance technique skills to use on the floor, – we offer Free training for all classes in return for performing at our events.
 
Showcases
Our own showcases are held at major world-class West End theatres, like the Sadlers Wells theatre.
 
Pony Club
Wildfire operates our own Pony Club on Barnet Lane at Hilltop Livery stables, for only £15 an hour, with all proceeds going to the animal sanctuary situated on the premises. Students volunteer, learn how to care for the animals, and learn how to handle the ponies.
 
Half terms, International Galas and Forest School
During half terms, we run Dance Intensive Masterclass Camps, with Forest School in tandem with the dance school, maximizing our competing athletes’ health and fitness by using the outdoors as much as we can.
 
We also offer International Dance Galas, with our October Half term Ibiza Gala 2023 coming up. Prices start at all-inclusive inc flights and transfer £599 for our students (RRP £799), with free spaces for dance coaches and teachers attending.
 
Should a student wish to attend for a free trial at any time this term, all the parents/carers need to do, is email us at wildfirefinchley@gmail.com to start the ball rolling.
 
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