About Us

 

 

DANCE STRIDES BARBADOS

 

Dance Strides Barbados is a registered educational institution established by M. Sheron Trotman in April 1994 with a roll of 100 students. The business now, in its twenty-fifth year, has approximately 300 students, and has been listed by a National Task Force on Cultural Industries as one of the island's major dance companies.

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The school provides dance instruction to students ranging in age from 3 years to adult in the Preparatory and Creative Modern, Boys' Technique, Hip Hop, Acrodance, Modern (including the Primus technique), Jazz, Afro/Caribbean and Ballet disciplines, as well as Mime and Drama workshops for dancers. Fitness oriented classes are also offered, namely Jazzercise, Yoga and Foundation Training.

 

Every year the school engages in a major project, including a professional dance concert, a children’s showcasing, an inter-class choreography competition for teenagers and when possible the attachment of an international choreographer/dancer/tutor. Dance Strides Barbados has also participated in annual intensive dance workshops held every summer at Howard University in Washington DC., where Ms. M. Sheron Trotman was a regular contributor, teaching among other genres the Pearl Primus Technique.