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Dance Is Good

Dancing helps your heart, assists weight loss, increases your energy, improves flexibility, strength and endurance, and makes you feel happy.  Dance has also been proven to reduce stress and releases endorphins and adrenaline, helping you sleep better at night.  Try it and see!

Rachel

I love what I do.  Dancing since I was 3 years old, I have been classically trained in tap, ballet & modern, achieving the Advanced qualification in all 3.

My professional training also includes contemporary, jazz & street dance, and after my GCSEs I won a year's scholarship to attend the prestigious Arts Educational School in London.  I finished my training at The Studios La Pointe dance College in Leeds where I graduated as a fully qualified (ISTD) dance teacher.

Since then my career has taken me all over the world, performing on cruise ships, pop videos in Egypt, and even dancing in a Bollywood movie!  Commercially, I have performed with Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams and Craig David - including his UK tour which concluded in a live performance at the Millennium Dome for over 20,000 people!  I have also performed on TV shows such as Top of the Pops, TFI Friday, Stars in their Eyes and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

In 2008 I set up my own production company, Vanilla Productions, and have choreographed several performances for high-profile clients including Clarks, Craghoppers, George at Asda, John West, Holland & Barrett and X-Factor Holland.

I now enjoy using my experience to teach dance classes in schools and studios, using Rhythm Fit to bring the true benefits of dance to anyone willing to give it a try! 

Rhythm Fit

Rhythm Fit was born when I realised there was an opening for dance-based fitness classes for both adults and children who may not necessarily want to attend a classical dance school but love to dance for fun!

Adult classes focus on strengthening and toning routines combining high energy music with slower dance based moves to get both the heart and the mind working.  The adult class is for all ages and sizes and no dance experience is necessary. We regularly clock over 6,000 steps and burn over 200 calories in each class so be prepared to sweat!  With regular social nights it’s a great way to make new friends too!

Children’s classes have ‘fun’ as the focus, using warm up routines to popular tracks to get the blood pumping and combining dance games and learning new choreography to help with focus and concentration. The classes are great for confidence building, memory improvement and working on team building skills and I never get tired of hearing from parents about how much their child’s confidence has improved since they started my classes!  

Rhythm Fit is also available as a professional dance choreography service for your child’s party!  They will be taught warm up routines, play dance related games and  learn a commercial dance routine to their favourite song to show to the parents at the end! 

Rhythm Fit is growing and is now both a brand and a service.  After-school classes, birthday parties, school discos, evening classes and special events are all now available.  We’d love to hear from you!

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For Your Body

With 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 5 children in the UK now classed as obese, there has never been a better time to take up regular exercise.  Rhythm fit is low impact, high energy calorie-burning fun designed with your health and wellbeing in mind.  And like all aerobic exercise - the benefits are felt long after the class has finished!

For Your Mind

Dancing in a social setting causes the release of endorphins – the chemical in the brain that reduces stress and pain.  Regular dancing and steady practice can help ‘train’ the brain against dizziness, and learning dance steps by going through the moves slowly and then performing them over and over also affects cognitive learning.   Both mastering a sequence of dance steps and then repeating them also improves levels of concentration.

For Your Self

Interacting with other people can lift your mood and improve your confidence.  For decades therapists have prescribed dance to those patients suffering from social anxiety and/or a fear of public speaking, the idea behind this recommendation being that dance allows people to feel less self-conscious when interacting with people or when “speaking in front of an audience” or crowd.

First Ever Recorded Dance

7,000 BC

Children now in UK Dance Classes

2,697,000

Adults now in UK Dance Classes

7,191,000

Styles of Dance

163

"From belly dancing to ballet dancing via street dancing, dance organisations are reporting a "phenomenal" rise in interest"
Andrew Johnson, The Guardian
“I see that the [dance] sector is growing, I see real achievement by dance organisations, by choreographers, and by thousands of practitioners in all aspects of dance.”
Alan Davey, Chief Executive, Arts Council England
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