Breaking Barriers
Confidence through performing arts
See our schedule and classes
Featured classes
Street dance
Street dance is a fun, energetic activity and we work towards street dance exams yearly along with performing in our breaking barriers showcase. During the classes we dance to lots of pop music and learn many routines throughout the term!
Ballet
We work on the R.A.D ballet syllabus and every couple of years we enter students to take exams, where we have achieved some amazing results in the past. We also perform in the breaking barriers showcase where the students get to show their ballet skills learnt throughout the year.
Drama
We offer group drama lessons which are fantastic for confidence building and diction. The students will often learn warm ups and then move on to improvisation and script work. Our aim is for every child to stand up and say their lines with characterisation and confidence
We have public classes available in 4 areas
Simply click on your preferred location below to see a list of available classes.
// Newbury classes coming in September 2022 //
Reading North
Reading West
Tadley
Thatcham
Or you can look through our all our classes below
You can filter locations using the drop down below
| Location | Class | Day | Age | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basingstoke | Acro | Wednesday | Mixed ages | 18:00-18:30 |
| Basingstoke | Drama / Singing | Wednesday | 4-8 years | 17:30-18:00 |
| Basingstoke | Streetdance | Wednesday | 9 years+ | 19:00-19:30 |
| Basingstoke | Streetdance | Wednesday | 4-8 years | 17:00-17:30 |
| Basingstoke | Streetdance | Wednesday | 9 years+ | 18:30-19:00 |
| Reading North | Acro | Tuesday | Mixed ages | 16:30-17:00 |
| Reading North | Drama | Monday | 6 years + | 17:15-17:45 |
| Reading North | Streetdance | Monday | 4-8 years | 15:50-16:30 |
| Reading North | Streetdance | Tuesday | 11-18 years | 17:00-18:00 |
| Reading North | Streetdance | Monday | 11-16 years | 16:30-17:30 |
| Reading North | Streetdance | Tuesday | 4-8 years | 15:50-16:30 |
| Reading West | Baby Ballet | Monday | Babies | 15:45-16:15 |
| Reading West | Drama | Monday | 6-10 years | 17:15- 17:45 |
| Reading West | Streetdance | Monday | 10 years+ | 16:45- 17:15 |
| Reading West | Streetdance | Tuesday | 10 years+ | 16:45 – 17:15 |
| Reading West | Streetdance | Monday | 4-7 years | 16:15-16:45 |
| Reading West | Streetdance | Tuesday | 4-7 years | 16:30 – 17:00 |
| Reading West | Streetdance | Monday | 6-10 years | 16.45- 17.15 |
| Tadley | Drama | Monday | 4-7 years | 17:00-17:30 |
| Tadley | Drama | Monday | 8-14 years | 17:00-17:30 |
| Tadley | Glee | Monday | 4-7 years | 09:30-10:30 |
| Tadley | Streetdance | Monday | 4-7 years | 16:00-16:30 |
| Tadley | Streetdance | Monday | 8-12 years | 16:30-17:00 |
| Tadley | Streetdance | Monday | 8-14 years | 16:00-16:30 |
| Thatcham | Streetdance | Wednesday | 4-7 years | 16:15-16:45 |
| Thatcham | Streetdance | Wednesday | 10-16 years | 17:15-18:00 |
| Thatcham | Streetdance | Wednesday | 7-10 years | 16:45-17:15 |
We also provide classes in schools and nurseries
Schools
We have been providing Daning, Singing and Drama clubs to schools for 15 years.
Nurseries
FUN classes for children who will love their Dance/Gymnastics/Sports class each week!
Holiday Workshops
We run Drama, singing, dance and arts and crafts throughout the week for children aged 4-16. We offer half days or full days for the week. We aim to put a performance on to friends and Family on the Friday afternoon. We have our teachers visiting throughout the week. The children look forward to a fantastic week learning new skills, performance technique and meeting new friends!
Street Dance
Street dance is a fun, energetic activity and we work towards street dance exams yearly along with performing in our breaking barriers showcase. During the classes we dance to lots of pop music and learn many routines throughout the term!
Drama
We offer group drama lessons which are fantastic for confidence building and diction. The students will often learn warm ups and then move on to improvisation and script work. Our aim is for every child to stand up and say their lines with characterisation and confidence.
Ballet
We work on the R.A.D ballet syllabus and every couple of years we enter students to take exams, where we have achieved some amazing results in the past. We also perform in the breaking barriers showcase where the students get to show their ballet skills learnt throughout the year.
Lamda
We now offer one to one lamda lessons within school. The students will work towards achieving their grade within Lamda and will be examined yearly.
Glee Club
We have lots of fun learning songs from musical theatre, pop, Disney and any request from our students! We perform in the breaking barriers showcase using professional microphones and in the theatre. We work on our singing along with some staging for each track. Students gain lots of confidence and especially learn to project and sing correctly.
Nursery Classes
The nursery sessions consist of a dance warm up, different nursery rhymes each week, props, colours, numbers, instruments, basic dance moves i.e marching, galloping, clapping, stamping, walking on toes. rhythm and basic tricks.
Breaking Barriers Adult Fitness
Fun, easy to follow routines taught in a darkened room with glow sticks to club music from the nineties through to today.
As well as up to date tracks, we have music to take you back to your clubbing days. Burn at least 400 calories per class while dancing to your favourite tunes. It’s a sober, fitness party every week!
Sarah Maskell has been a qualified aerobics teacher for twenty years. Having taught circuits, spinning, step, Zumba and Streetdance to adults, this is right up her street!
In addition, come and experience our “Clubbercise World”, with “legs, bums and tums” included as a separate session to help you tone up and provide a cardio workout.
This is for all fitness levels and all age so come and try it out………!!
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Testimonials
I have two daughters aged 7 and 6 that attend street dance classes on a Monday night, the girls look forward to Sarah’s classes every week and can’t wait to get home to show off the new moves that they have learnt!
The girls joined during the lockdown period, Sarah has communicated regularly with all parents about the lockdown rules and what is expected, all the children have been kept safe during this time. One of my daughters needs a little bit of extra support due to her anxiety and a Sarah and her team have enabled her to join in and enjoy the dancing! Both girls always come out with a big smile on their face!
Our daughter attends weekly classes with Breaking Barriers & has also attended their summer workshops – she absolutely loves it!
She has made friends, built her confidence and most of all has buckets loads of fun!
The staff are professional, friendly and welcoming and have such a wonderful relationship with all the children.
We would 100% recommend Breaking Barriers to anyone, come along and join the fun!!
My two girls attend Sarah street dance class and absolutely love it! They look forward to it every week and show us the new parts to their routines they have learnt when they come home. Sarah is lovely and so great with the children. I highly recommend her classes to anyone thinking of joining. My children were total beginners and the classes have really given them confidence.
My daughter has been a student of breaking barriers for nearly 10 years now and absolutely loves it! All the classes are fun and energetic and are packed with opportunities for the children to show of their new dance moves! The option of the yearly dance show and the exams are an added bonus!
Natalie/Sarah and their team are all incredibly encouraging, very dedicated and are absolutely brilliant running classes for a range of ages!
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