Your Bright Future is to Dance.

Our Mission

Illumination dance, Dance school, and social the environment provide a wonderful social opportunity, and all our members are encouraged to dance and socially interact with other dancers. We also offer dance freestyles (Social dances), workshops, special nights out and charity events where our dancers get the chance to learn other styles of dance and are constantly exposed to the works of various teachers and demo's that we have access to.


In order to achieve these goals.

You will learn how to move and groove with our highly qualified and experienced teachers, they will put a smile on your face each time you come to one of our classes. We will provide support and motivation to you as we have created a dance environment with a warm, supportive atmosphere, which is based on satisfying customers. We have provided dance training for our dancers at all levels of dance, from beginner to advanced. Every time you come to a class; you will feel important because we care about our students. We provide a safe and supportive environment for yourself and all other dancers. We promise to promote excellence in all our classes and events. You will have the opportunity to express yourself, be creative, have fun and develop your social life. Develop the 'all round' dancer with opportunities for both the recreational and vocational dancer.

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Core to the club's philosophy: 

 Is to enjoy the wonder that is Modern jive, & Expressive Modern Blues  Dance, for both freestyle dances and class nights, is key to what we do in the dance community. We teach you how to learn to dance, how not to dance, and then how to enjoy your dance in a friendly and safe, social environment. whether you are an experienced dancer looking for further tuition in moves, styling, or musicality or a complete beginner with 'Two left feet' - All are welcome to our events.

 

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About Us

 

Illumination Dance is a progressive club specializing in Expressive Modern Blues. We also do Smooth modern jive & Modern jive dance, & Social club which offers various styles of dance including (French Jive) Smooth Jive, Blues, WCS, and tango influence. We will be running regular dance classes during the week at various locations in the St Ives area Nr Cambridge, with weekday classes, workshops and freestyles on a regular basis. Visit our website calendars and bookings sections for full info of events, workshops, and classes. Illumination Dance has a crew of experienced dance teachers and crew that are on hand to help and support new dancers to the club, we also have resident DJs; Pete Shillito, DJ Dave, CJ, John, Tracey, Neil + guest DJs.

 

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What we offer.

1. Dance Classes

Dance classes are run at our flagship location in St Ives, Nr Cambridge, we also run classes in Harlow, Essex on a regular basis during the weekday evenings. 

2. Freestyles

We run Freestyles (Social dancing events) at our various locations around the country, normally on Friday or Saturday evenings. 

We also run Tea dances on Sunday afternoons at various locations.   

3. Workshops

Workshops are a way to get specialised tuition on a given subject or one of our fast-track workshops to enhance your dancing.   

4. Social Events

We organize social events normally at an alternate location, normally at a local restaurant near one of our locations, where we have a social evening with food and drink, then some dancing to end the night   

7. Dance Competitions

Illumination Dance runs a Dance Competition on a yearly basis in St Albans, see our maps and events calendar to locate these events.   

5. One2One Tuition

We offer a personalised intensive training session that is tailored to the individual needs of our customers, this can be done in various locations we have access to or at the customer’s home location.

We also have a dedicated One2One facility at Wootton, Nr Bedford.    

6. We are at Multiple locations

Both DanceXcess and Illumination Dance run events at various locations around the country at our 7 locations, in the course of each month see our maps and events calendar to locate these events.   

8. Charity Eventss

We support two charities through the club. the first is close to our hearts, Race for life and the second is a local hospice charity.

What our club offers to you.

Freestyle dances are for your enjoyment and indulgence of the wonder that is dancing - dancing quite literally 'moves the soul'.

The next Freestyle is highlighted on the home page, and the events listing shows all future classes and Freestyles.

At each event there is a mixture of music styles conjured up by the DJs, ranging from popular chart music, to moody numbers, to golden oldies. Many Freestyles have separate rooms where Blues, West Coast Swing and other musical themes are for those who prefer a particular style all evening.

Freelance Friday Freestyles are always this blend of styles, typically centred around Modern Jive style dancing. In addition, there are

Illumination Dance Freestyles which offer the only musicality-based freestyle in the east of England and centre around a more expressive, arguably slower paced style of music - suited to Smooth Modern Jive, West Coast Swing, Tango and Blues. 

Elements Freestyles which offer the only 3 rooms & 4 Styles in the area, each room focused on a particular style - Smooth Modern Jive, West Coast Swing, Blues and a mix of expressive music.

Freestyles are commonly from 8pm until 12pm (Midnight) but some events finish later.

We offer a two-tear pricing system at all our freestyles with a discounted price before 9pm off our normal door price.

DanceXcess offers Free hot drinks and at all venues which doesn't operate a licensed bar we also have flavoured water on sale, 

At some of our venues we have a licensed bar, check on the event page to confirm.

Parking is always available either on site, or readily available close by. Check the Freestyle event or venue page for more details, and for directions.

Core to the club's philosophy is that to enjoy the wonder that is modern dance, both freestyle dances and class nights are key. To learn how to dance, how not to dance and then to enjoy your dance in a friendly, safe and social environment.

Whether you are an experienced dancer looking for further tuition in moves, styling or musicality, or a complete beginner with 'two left feet' - all are welcome.

No partner needed, although this is a partner dance, the idea is to move people on but if you have a partner and want to stick together this is also ok.

Choose your nearest venue for class nights, St Ives, Harlow, and progress from beginner to intermediate and beyond. Then enjoy your new found dance abilities at any of the regular freestyle dances (Social nights out) normally at weekends.

Freestyle Dances are held in Modern Jive, and mixed-styles of Smooth jive, West coast Swing, Blues & Expressive, allowing you to explore the various styles to enhance your dancing, or to choose your preferred style.

Whatever your dance ability, come along to a class night and the Crew & teachers will help you realise your desire to dance, or to progress your dance.

Illumination Dance runs Class nights, Freestyles, Workshops, Tea dances and social nights out at various venues in the UK and runs the only 3 room, 5 style with a dedicated West Coast Swing room freestyle in the area (ELEMENTS), we also run the only musicality-based freestyle in the east of England (Illumination Dance) for those that like expressive music & dancing, with other venues in, North London, Milton 'Keynes & Leicester areas.

Illumination Dance, at all our venues we, offers FREE Tea & Coffee all night, we don't normally have a licensed bar at our events so you can BYO drinks. However on our 3 main, 3 room events (Glitz & Glamour, Masked Ball & New years Eve Eve) we do run a licensed Cafe bar. Plus  we offer a food feast which starts at around10.30pm to give the dancers a break and social catch up at the same time we play Expressive music for around 20mins for the more adventurous dancers. On some freestyles we have a 2nd room which plays the more tempered music (Blues, Tango, Expressive) to complement our main room of (Modern Jive, up-tempo music)

- The Illumination Dance team.

Why Choose Us

23 Years of Experience

CJ our principal teacher has 23 years of dance teaching experience at various locations and clubs around the UK, teaching Modern jive, Smooth Jive, Modern Blues, and now Expressive dance & Expressive Modern Blues, with a strong focus on styling and musical interpretation, but he is better known as a very experienced Dips & Drops teacher concentrating on safety within all aspects of his lessons and workshops.   

Team Of Experts

Our team of teachers and demos are trained to the highest standard and are very dedicated to all they do. Our principal teacher is qualified as a teacher-trainer to help enhance our teachers and demos to maintain the high standard you the customer expect. The club is also supported by external teachers and demos to give the club greater variety in the products we offer. 

We offer our customers a professional and fun & safe environment to dance, socialize and perfect their dancing skills.

Classes & Events

DanceXcess and Illumination Dance, offer various dance classes, workshops, freestyles, and social nights plus charity nights around the country, mainly around St Ives, Cambridge, Harlow, north London, and the midlands areas, at each of our locations on a regular basis

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