Ages 3 to adult · Beginner to advanced
Find your
style.
Ten styles across four age bands. Every one of them starts with a free class, and nobody has to know what they are doing on day one.
3–5 years
Ballet · Jazz/Tap
Thirty-minute ballet, 45-minute Jazz/Tap. Short on purpose.
6–8 years
Ballet · Jazz/Tap · Hip Hop · Acro
The year most students find the style they stay with.
9–12 years
Ballet/Lyrical · Jazz · Hip Hop · Contemporary · Acro
Technique gets serious, and so does the fun.
13+ years
Jazz · Hip Hop · Contemporary · Acro · Broadway
Longer 55-minute classes, and the door to teams and exams.
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3–5 years
Preschool Dance
The first step. Thirty joyful minutes, sized to a three-year-old.
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3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13+
Ballet
The technique underneath everything else we teach.
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3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13+
Jazz
The heartbeat of the studio, and most students' first love.
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3–5 · 6–8 · 9+
Tap
The style that teaches a dancer to listen as well as move.
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6–8 · 9–12 · 13+
Hip Hop
Current music, real choreography, and the fastest-filling classes we run.
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9–12 · 13+
Contemporary & Lyrical
Where technique stops being technique and starts being something to say.
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Levels 1–4
Acrobatics
Tumbling taught in four graded levels, so nobody is pushed past their stage.
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Older students
Broadway Jazz
Character, story and showmanship — jazz choreographed the way the shows are.
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All ages
Private Singing
One-to-one tuition in the studio's own music room.
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Adults
Adult Classes
Dance does not have an upper age limit here.
Where it can go
Recreational, exams, or teams
Nobody has to do any of it. How exams and competitions actually work at DFX.
Recreational
One class a week, for the love of it.
Most students start here and many happily stay. A weekly class, a costume, and a spot in the concert at the end of the year. No pressure, no selection, no extra commitment.
Examinations
Graded, assessed, on the record.
For students who want their dancing formally examined. Preparation happens inside regular class time, and the result is a recognised grade that travels with them.
Competition Teams
Selection-based. Rehearsal-heavy. The real thing.
Our performance troupes — Femme Fatalz among them — compete across the Melbourne circuit and perform at community events. This is the pathway for a student building toward a career in dance.
Not sure which class?
Ring us and describe your kid. We have been placing dancers in the right room since 2002 and we are usually right first go.