Ballet, where the exam board sets half your calendar

Graded levels, and the two things that decide them

Placement is not by age alone and not by ability alone — it is both, and getting it wrong is the fastest way to lose a family. Levels are held per programme with the date a dancer moved up, so a class list reflects where dancers actually are rather than what they were told in September. Where you follow a graded syllabus, the grade names and their order are yours to define rather than borrowed from another system.

Exam entries and recital costs land in bursts

An exam entry has a closing date, a fee set by the examining body, and a list of who is actually entered. A recital brings costume, ticket and rehearsal costs to the same families in the same fortnight. Each is a one-off charge against a card already on file, with a record of who has paid — which is the difference between a fortnight of chasing and an afternoon of reconciling.

Several classes, one dancer, one bill

A serious dancer takes ballet twice a week plus pointe plus repertoire, and a family often has two dancers on different schedules. Enrolments sit under the membership rather than replacing it, so multiple classes are one bill with a combined rate, and each class keeps its own register.

Questions we get asked

Can we use our own graded syllabus?

Yes. Level names, their number and their order are configurable per programme, so a graded syllabus works without being forced into a shape borrowed from another discipline.

How do recital costume charges work?

As one-off charges against the dancer's account, collected from the payment method already on file, with a paid-or-not list you can read at a glance.