Adage Dance & Fitness Studios

Adage Dance & Fitness Studios occupies two studios in Selly Oak, Birmingham, catering for all ages and abilities across a broad range of dance styles. The studio prides itself on a friendly, welcoming environment and offers both structured timetable classes and bespoke services including private tuition, wedding choreography, hen parties, children's parties and exam training.

Adult classes run throughout the week and cover contemporary, commercial, burlesque, tap, ballet and jazz. Contemporary takes place Tuesdays at 6pm, commercial at 6.45pm the same evening, and burlesque at 7.30pm. Wednesday evenings feature tap at 6pm, ballet at 6.45pm and jazz at 7.30pm. A dedicated ballet pointe class is also offered. All adult dance classes are 45 minutes long and welcome complete beginners through to experienced dancers.

The pole dance program is comprehensive and inclusive. Mixed level pole classes follow a structured curriculum to help students progress safely. Hips & Heels classes (beginners Thursdays at 7pm, advanced Mondays at 7pm) focus on floor work and choreography. Exotic pole, a choreography-based class combining pole and heels work, runs Thursdays at 8pm for beginners and Mondays at 8pm for advanced students. Pole classes are an hour long and require bare feet, shorts and sports attire; knee pads are advised for hips & heels, exotic and pole flow sessions.

Children's classes run Mondays and Saturdays, with a detailed timetable covering ages from 3 years old. Monday evening includes acro, contemporary, modern jazz and lyrical. Saturdays offer baby ballet from 9am through to pointe at 4pm, with graded ballet and tap classes, junior and senior street, and lyrical also available. Most kids classes are 30 minutes long. The studio teaches both IDTA syllabus and non-syllabus content.

The studio's performance record is distinctive: cabaret groups have performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Sadler's Wells (home of the Royal Ballet), Her Majesty's Theatre, the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Crescent theaters, Disneyland Paris and New York. The studio runs its own shows and attends external competitions regularly, offering both children and adults the opportunity to perform and compete.

When you arrive for an adult class, you can book online beforehand or contact the studio. There is a large car park at the dance studio and ample street parking near the pole studio. You'll join a friendly environment catering for all levels; no specific dance attire is needed to start, though the studio can recommend kit for future sessions. Kids have a waiting area within Touchbase Pears, and a café operates on Saturdays during the day.

Kerrey Warr, the principle, trained from age 9 and gained IDTA graduate and associate teaching qualifications at 16 and 18. She performed on cruise ships worldwide and worked with celebrities including Robbie Williams, the Sugar Babes and Leona Lewis before focusing on teaching and choreography. Siobhan Thomas began dancing at 2 and trained at Phil Winston's Theatre Works from 2000, performing across the UK and Ireland with celebrities and touring for British army troops in Germany, Croatia and Bosnia. She holds a University of Wolverhampton certificate in dance education and an IDTA Associate qualification (94% pass rate), teaching IDTA syllabus, GCSE dance, BTEC dance and recreational classes. Kirstie Ryan is a qualified IDTA dance instructor with over 15 years' teaching experience in ballet, street, freestyle and burlesque, and over 8 years teaching pole. She has been a finalist and placed in Pole Sport UK, Pole Theatre UK, Pole Art, Dance Filthy and Exotic Generation competitions, and is a qualified Xpert Heels instructor specializing in heels and exotic choreography. Kelly Rose is a former national pro kickboxing champion with a decade of sports coaching experience who qualified as a pole instructor in 2018. She has been a finalist and placed in UUKPPC, MPC, MPD, Pole Art UK, Pole Theatre UK and Pole Sport UK competitions, specializing in strength-based pole, low pole tricks, handstands and artistic flow.

All adult classes cater for complete beginners through to experienced dancers, and all pole training classes are suitable for all abilities.