Contemporary Intermediate with Alleyne Dance
Summer Intensives 2025
About Contemporary Intermediate with Alleyne Dance
This intensive will run from Monday 4 - Friday 8 August 2025
Enhance Strength, Flexibility, and Rhythm through Dynamic Movement!
This high-energy contemporary class will boost your mobility, strength, flexibility, coordination, and rhythm. Led by Alleyne Dance, you'll explore movement, ideas, and stories through physical and expressive exercises. We'll focus on body isolation, articulation including fluid movement of the spine, all while letting music and rhythm inspire your dancing with live accompaniment by Bobby Demers
Perfect for anyone with at least 3 years of dance experience and who is looking to gain a new insight into contemporary dance.
Class details
- Enrol for the week 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
Award-winning Alleyne Dance is a unique and powerful company that blends Caribbean, Hip Hop and Kathak, within a contemporary dance context. The choreographic language focuses on rhythms and textures with movement that is athletic, fast paced and dynamic, with infusions of lyrical and fluid motion.
Founded in 2014 by award-winning sisters, Kristina and Sadé Alleyne, the company strives for high quality and excellence in three main objectives: Performance: with productions made for the stage, outdoors and film, Participation: with bespoke training classes and workshops for community groups, youth groups, vocational institutions, professional companies, and dance festivals, Development: by nurturing the professional journey of dancers as they find their artistic voice and strengthen their skills.
Alleyne Dance also receives commissions to create work on other professional companies that tour nationally and internationally. Some include:
Martha Graham Dance Company (USA)
Trioler Landstheater: Ballet Company (AT)
Phoenix Dance (UK)
2Faced Dance Company (UK)
Some of their awards include:
Best Independent Company – National Dance Awards (UK)
Black Female Icons of Lewisham – Brockley Max and The Mayor of London (UK)
Bench 2019 Women of Colour Commission (UK)
Multiple Awards for of Dance Film, (Re)United from, Frostbite, National Dance Awards and more.