Most young ballerinas will tell you that they have one big dream for their dancing career… to be En Pointe! Dancing En Pointe, or on your toes in special Pointe shoes, requires a huge amount of strength and ballet technique. Ballet teachers will have strict requirements you will need to fulfil before you can start Pointe work. Most teachers and specialists agree that Pointe work shouldn’t start until dancers are […]

Don’t forget that classes run until Saturday 14th December! So we will see you this week for Awards Week – where classes wind down and enjoy the final class for the year, and we recognise some of our high achievers and top performers. It’s been such a great term, so we look forward to finishing it on a high with fun and relaxed lessons.

WAPS #Dancelife – Miss Sarah’s Dance Trip To Spain I was very lucky to get accepted earlier this year into a fantastic Summer dance intensive, run by Dance Master Class, a fantastic international company with incredible faculty. My program was two weeks full time, in Granada, which is in Southern Spain at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. I was pleasantly surprised to get accepted and looked forward […]

Adult Performance Troupe Update The WAPS Adult Performance Troupe has been working hard all year to wow audiences at a number of events around Perth. Most recently, they participated in Azure Entertainment’s Lucha Royale show, with their infectious energy and enthusiasm hyping the crowd up for the first match of the show. In their bright golden costumes, the girls did a fantastic job and added a lively and enthusiastic atmosphere […]

Are you attending Expresstival this Friday in the Perth CBD? Keep an eye out for WAPS performers inamongst the awesome lineup of local acts. We will have singers, dancers, acrobats and cheerleaders performing outside Myer in Murray Street Mall, and we hope to see you there! Check out the Facebook event here!

Christmas news from WAPS The WA Performance School was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the annual turning on of the Christmas lights in Forrest Place this year! 17 ballet and dance students from the school participated in the annual festivities, including the Christmas Lights Parade, where they paraded through Forrest Place along with Dora the Explorer, Spiderman, and Santa Claus! Our students did a very good job […]

News and Info – Dancers at WAPS! Term 4 has only just begun and WAPS students and staff have already jumped right back into action again! After the busy holidays (with R.A.D. exams and Bayswater Competitions), WAPS students returned to classes and went straight back to rehearsing for our end of year concert, as well as a few recent events! On Saturday 28th October, a number of WAPS staff and […]

Welcome back to The WA Performance School for 2014! We can’t wait for what’s sure to be an action-packed year of fun and performance! We have new classes opening, including babies and toddlers music and rhythm classes, intermediate level adult Hip Hop classes, plus a brand new competition troupe! With even more exciting workshops and performance opportunities, we are ready to make 2014 even bigger and better than the last. […]

Welcome back students, parents and friends! What a busy start to the year it’s been. With many new classes starting, as well as a brand new studio at Malaga, WAPS has been busier than ever with lots of new faces joining us as well as all our favourite students from previous years returning for classes. We have also launched a new Student Portal system where students and parents can not […]

Welcome to our brand new blog! After months of preparation, the WA Performance School’s new website is finally here! From now on, you won’t miss a single announcement as we update everything that you need to know about upcoming events, important dates, classes, news and concerts right here on this website the moment we know about it. You will find that there are still sections on the website that are […]