WORLD-CLASS DANCE TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Our National Centres for Advanced Training in Dance (also known as Dance CATs) provide world-class pre vocational training to young people aged 10 – 18 with a passion and aptitude for dance, regardless of their personal circumstance or experience. Classes take place in the evenings and at weekends at 10 arts venues across the country and we provide means-tested bursaries, funded through the Department for Education’s Music and Dance Scheme, to ensure every young person with potential can take part.

We train dancers in Ballet, Circus, Contemporary, South Asian and Street Dance.

We partner with venues in Birmingham, Bournemouth, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Nottingham, Salford, and Swindon.

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Do you have the passion, drive, artistry, commitment, creativity and ambition to fulfil your aspirations in dance?
The Centres for Advanced Training are looking for young people with exceptional potential like you.

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WHERE ARE THE CATs?

There are Centres for Advanced Training in Dance up and down the country. Find the CAT nearest to you.

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What's it like to go to a CAT?

My name is Vidya Patel, I am a Kathak dancer and an alumnus of the Yuva Gati Centre for Advanced Training Programme. Born, raised in a British Gujarati household in Handsworth- I began training in Indian classical dance from a young age and continued my training with focus on Kathak, through the Yuva Gati CAT Programme and by guru Sujata Banerjee. Recently, I have been developing my own research through the Developing Your Creative Practise grant, and was part of the Pagrav Oxygen development programme. In 2015, I represented the…

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