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Here At Energize Dance & Fitness, 

Dance is not just about dance steps and moves, It helps to condition your body and mind, leading you to a healthier childhood or lifestyle depending on who you are. It helps to improve self-confidence and increase your social life and friendships all while challenging you to do something you never thought you could do before. Every week you will see improvement bringing with it a great sense of achievement for your or your child and the hunger and motivation to continue learning more.This is not just marketing jaron; at Energize we are proud to have a community full of adult and children busting with energy, excitement and passion for the art of dance and the upbeat life and experiences it brings. Energize is open 6 days a week, we cater from tiny tots to adult and offer a wide range of dance and fitness classes for you to choose from and enjoy. Energize is an excellent and vibrant place to be and with no registration fees to pay, you can simply just turn up and join in!

Why not pop in and see for yourself or contact us to find out more about what we have to offer? Energize Dance & Fitness was established in 2005 and is one of the leading Northwest Freestyle Dance Schools. We compete all around the country and travel to Norway and Ireland.

Freestyle is extremely popular for girls and boys, in the last year alone a number of Freestyle dancers have appeared in a host of TV Talent shows including "Got to Dance" & "Britain's Got Talent". This has brought our exciting form of dance to an entre new audience.                               

                                                                                                           

HOW DID FREESTYLE START?

In 1978 the era of Disco Dancing was truly born in the UK. For months we eagerly anticipated the arrial of the dance craze that was sweeping America. This was all due to one film and one performer, John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever! Travolta brought a message across to millions of young people that here was a lad with a Boring nine-till-five, poorly paid job, who was able to become a success in a different way - he could dance, and dance well! His reputation at the local Discotheque was a legend and when he entered that atmosphere at night he was respected and hero-worshiped. We have now progressed so far that the movements in hindsight look quite tame but thye film must be recognised as a unique type of musical which brought a new dance form to this country.

Dance classes specialising in the "Night Fever" routines quickly became popular in all areas of the UK and many dance teachers were delighted with this huge surge in business. This film brought young people back into the dance schools after a relative decline of many years. Almost overnight it became the "norm" for young lads, as well as girls, to take up dancing as a hobby and attend dance schools for classes and/or private lessons. The term Freestyle has largely replaced Disco over recent years. As with other forms of competivive dancing, many of the top class champions have become well known in their own field and have gone on into show business or become teachers and/or choreographers with their own dance schools.

WHAT IS FREESTYLE DANCE?

It's an artistic dance form that co-ordinates accentuated body movements with a number of basic steps incorporating arm, head and had positions and movements. This is develped by the tachers who need to keep abreast of modern trends and music, whilst allowing the dancer freedom to express their own individual interpretation. The development of a top class freestyle dancer requires the understanding of several basic principals in order to create good style and technique. i.e. Good timing, as with any other form of dance is essential. Choreography needs to be tailored to suit the age, grade and capability of each dancer. Extension and projection are also important aspects of Freestyle dance.

Freestyle Dance contains a great variety of steps and movements particularly in the choreography of the higher grade dancers. However, the three "basic ingredients" of Freestyle Dancing relating to solo work are runs, spins and kicks. Almost all dancers in intermediate grades and avouve will proform these steps as part of their routine in one form or another. Beginners will generally use less progressive types of movemeents but will normally have some running steps in their routines.