Dance in Paris

A thriving and sophisticated metropolitan city renowned for its influential artistes, Paris offers the ideal opportunity for students to stimulate their passion for Dance outside the UK and beyond the school grounds.

Pavilion offers a choice of either city-centre hotels in close proximity to the workshop spaces or suburban accommodation away from the hustle and bustle and with enhanced facilities for school groups. Paris is approximately four hours coach drive from Calais and a short drive from Disneyland Resort Paris. Groups travelling by Eurostar can take advantage of the highly efficient and comprehensible Metro service.

Free-time is taken care of with a tour of the Paris Opera or a visit to Montmartre, the traditional artisan district. The city offers a chic range of shopping including Galeries Lafayette, filled with designer labels, or the Bercy Village, transformed from a 19th century stonehouse into a selection of boutiques. Your visit would not be complete without an ascent of the iconic Eiffel Tower and a cruise down the River Seine, taking in the major Paris landmarks by day or night. 

Dance groups also have the opportunity to perform at Disneyland Paris or participate in a workshop as part of Disney Magic Music Days.

Wider curriculum links: Offering superb facilities alongside Parisian culture and neo-classical architecture in an inspiring metropolitan location, Paris communicates a natural link between Dance and other curriculum areas such as Languages, History, Art and Geography.

Pavilion's Dance Tours

Pavilion’s experienced and skilled dance tutors deliver 90 minute training sessions in professional dance studios. Sessions aim to generate positive learning outcomes through challenging the dancer’s typical process, enhancing their performance and encouraging creativity, competence, critical understanding and evaluation.

Tailored Dance sessions and specialist workshops are designed to meet each group’s individual needs. Teachers can specify desired aims and objectives by liaising with our Performing Arts Consultant prior to departure.

Adaptable to each group’s needs, a range of specialisations in many style of dance are offered including:

• Contemporary and Choreography
• Street Dance, Hip-Hop 
• Breakdance
• Jazz, Street Jazz
• Commercial
• Fusion
• Capoeira
• Dance for film
• Other styles available on request

During their stay, dancers can expect:

• 5 x 90 minute sessions
• A choice of specialisations*, tailored to each individual group

*Specialisations ideally require all five sessions to allow a full development of choreography.

Curriculum Values

Recognising the varied and valuable role that Dance plays in the lives of young people, Pavilion encourages students to become responsible, reflective and successful performers.

In-line with National Curriculum Key Concepts and Processes, our programmes encourage performers to:

• Explore and communicate ideas, concepts and emotions
• Advance their composition skills – choreography, sequencing, dynamics
• Develop greater body and spatial awareness
• Fine tune core skills, including - balance, alignment, shape and strength
• Improve the clarity, fluency and phrasing of movement