Ballet Beginners with Denzil Bailey
Summer Intensives 2025
About Ballet Beginners with Denzil Bailey
This intensive will run from Monday 11 - Friday 15 August 2025.
Refine, develop, and challenge your ballet skills in a supportive and fun environment.
This class will help you gain a deeper understanding of ballet technique, movement and vocabulary – the perfect next step for anyone who has completed the introduction course or has 6 months to one year movement experience.
From barre to pirouettes, you will be carefully guided through each step by our experienced dance artist Denzil Bailey to an accompaniment of beautiful live music by pianist Sven Blazyca. Building confidence with each class, you will leave with an accomplished understanding of the musicality, artistry and technique of ballet, ready to progress into our intermediate classes.
Class Details
- Enrol for the term for £70.00 to save and guarantee your place or drop-in for £16.00 per class.
- We encourage you to get in touch with us at classes@theplace.org.uk if you have any access requirements to ensure our classes are delivered in the most inclusive way possible. You can find an outline of our access information here.
- Please arrive on time - unfortunately we are unable to accommodate participants who are more than 15 minutes late as the warm-up is an important part of the class.
- Unfortunately, we are unable to offer refunds or exchanges, unless there are extenuating circumstances. You can read our booking Terms & Conditions here.
About your teacher
Denzil started to dance aged 17 in a weekly jazz class in a church hall in Cricklewood. Encouraged by his teacher to take ballet, he joined the London School of Classical Dance. After three years he was chosen to join the internationally prestigious English National Ballet where he danced for 10 years, touring the world.
Following some time freelancing and raising his son Jacob, Denzil was approached by Cassa Pancho, a dancer writing her dissertation on the lack of black classical dancers and together they founded the renowned Ballet Black. This led to numerous requests to teach, and Denzil unintentionally became a ballet teacher, which he now calls his “dream job”.
Denzil has regular open classes across London, and he also teaches for dance companies such as Rambert, Random, Neo Ballet, Tavaziva, Skanes Danse, and Ballet Black.