Training & Performance Company 2025
This training program develops homegrown talent & bridges the gap between training & professional careers. Sole Rebel C.I.C are excited to be running our Training & Performance Company for the fourth year in 2025.
We are inviting passionate tap dancers to join us for a tap dance training that delves deeper, with a world class faculty of artists and various opportunities to work alongside musicians and perform at festivals & events throughout the UK.
A collective of likeminded tap artists who train and perform together. As a group we are dedicated to developing tap dance, working with live music and supporting each other on our journeys as artists.
Training & Performance Company 2025
First made: 2025
Monthly training sessions & workshops held on the first Sunday of the month 1pm – 5pm at LIPA, with Sole Rebel Artistic Director Hannah Ballard, followed by our tap jam with Sole Rebel’s in-house jazz band at 5.30-7pm at The Pen Factory, Hope Street.
Our professional training programme has been developed over the last 4 years and is carefully curated to give a varied tap education with a focus on the following:
– Jazz/rhythm tap dance technique
– Improvisational skills
– Contextual studies of tap dance, including tap dance history/culture/discussions
– Musicality, jazz music theory and jazz history developed & delivered with our band members
– Working with prestigious tap dance choreographers
– Practical experience collaborating with musicians
– Learning traditional tap dance repertoire
– Learning original and bespoke choreography and current Sole Rebel repertoire
– Developing performance skills
– Wide range of performance opportunities
– Developing own choreographic voice and artistry
– Learning about and connecting with the wider tap dance community nationally and internationally
As well as working with Sole Rebel’s experienced performance and dance education team, there will be workshops with guest artists visiting throughout the programme both in person and online. Our first residency with Jack Evans who will be choreographing a new, original piece for this years company.
- Touring Information:
- hannah@solerebel.co.uk
