Our Venues

St Julie's Church Hall, Howards Lane, WA10 5HJ

The hall located at the back of St Julie's church in Eccleston has been our home on Saturdays for the past 15 years. 

 

This modern, bright venue has its own private car park, side room for parents to wait and a stage for rehearsals. 

 

It offers lots of space for our youngest dancers to move around in and is also where we hold exam sessions and other events for the whole school.

 

Our dancers start their dance journey with us here before moving over to Ruskin at around age 8.

 

 

 

Ruskin Leisure Village, Ruskin Drive, WA10 6RP

Ruskin's also a long term home for us. It's our chosen venue for slightly older children, teens and adults.

 

Our classes are held in the newly refurbished studio within the main gym building. With wooden floors, mirrors, sound system, air con and ambient lighting, it's a great space for our members to perfect their dance skills. 

 

Ruskin has multiple car parks and plenty of outside space for families to use while their children are with us. Parents often visit the cafe or bar while their kids are in class.

 

Or members of our adult classes often use the additional facilities before or after their session.

 

News

Halloween Day of Dance

Our next holiday club Day of Dance is taking place on 31st October. Contact us for more info or to book your place.

We're doing the 2023 Tapathon!

We're taking part in this year's Tapathon supporting Children in Need and attempting a Guinness World Record. Wish us luck for 19th November!

New September term 

We're back to our usual venues and (hopefully) a regular schedule of classes again from September. 

 

Saturday classes start from 2 Sept. Contact us to enquire about a place.

2 Fantastic summer Days of Dance

What a great time we had catching up over the summer break at our holiday clubs. Games, activities, yummy treats...and of course lots of dancing! Thanks to all that came!

We did it! Show 2023!

A huge well done to all our amazing dancers! And thanks to our friends at the St Helens Theatre Royal for helping us put on a great performance. We've had some fantastic feedback. And we're proud of every one of you! Roll on our next one (we're already planning!)

Oris Water Bottles now available

How cool are these? Order yours now in our Members Area.

100% exam pass rate (and some amazing results!)

Over the moon all of our outstanding exam results!! Well done, to everyone who took part. We're super proud of you all!! 

New T-shirts & Hoodies now available

Yey! Our new look t-shirts and hoodies are here. To buy, head to our members area and fill in the order form! 

Introducing Little Oris Dance

Our newest arm, Little Oris Dance officially opens its doors from September. Based at The Nest in Eccleston, we are opening the magical world of dance up to our youngest ever attendees :) Babies from birth through to toddlers will join us with their parents/carer for classes on Saturday mornings. 

Adult classes are back!

Put 22nd Sept in your diaries. Adult dance blast, barre fitness and tap are back on Wednesday evenings. Look out for updates on our website or Facebook page. Alternatively, contact us for more info.

Congratulations Advanced Dancers

Congratulations to our Advanced class (plus Mollie who's not pictured above) for some fantastic exam results. Not one, but two distinctions for these superstars in their most recent exam session. Plus, some amazing comments from the examiner..."Tap at its best" and "A showstopping performance!." Just brilliant, ladies. Keep up the great work! 

Excellent exam results 2019/2020

We are absolutely delighted with not only a 100% pass rate for our most recent set of practical dance exams, but some outstanding results. Well done to everyone - we're proud of you all! 

Now accepting new starters for January

Are you looking for a St Helens dance class? Now is the perfect time to sign up with Oris Dance as we're starting brand new work across all classes in January. Contact us to ask about availability and the most suitable class for you.

West End Workshop

Another amazing day with professional west end dancer, Andrew, took place on Saturday 5th October. Andrew led two brilliant musical theatre workshops for some of our Ruskin dancers, filling the room with energy, fun and laughter. We learnt a lot and look forward to welcoming Andrew back soon. 

Summer holidays Days of Dance - join us!

Have you signed up for one of our summer holiday Days of Dance? If 6 weeks seems just too long off dancing, we've some great activities planned at our Ruskin Drive Leisure Village studio - get in touch to find out more. 

It was lights, camera, action at our annual end-of-year show

What a fantastic afternoon we had at the Theatre Royal for our annual performance on 14th July. Our movie themed show was a great success - every single one of our dancers did us proud. We were sooo impressed with you all! A massive well done to everyone who took part and thanks to everyone who came to watch. 

Great fun at our Feb Day of Dance

Thank you to guest teachers, Victoria and Sheila, who ran two great fun workshops. We learnt a lot from you both! 

Congratulations, Laura

A distinction grade is rare, but our dancer and class assistant, Laura, smashed her exams this year by receiving, not one, but three!! 

Huge congratulations on this outstanding achievement, with love from all your fellow dancers and teachers at Oris Dance. x

Outstanding exam results 2019

We were thrilled to receive some outstanding gradings and remarks from our recent exam session, including a high number of honours and distinctions. What an achievement!! 

A huge well done to all of our dancers who have (yet again!) done us proud!

100% pass rate in Dec 2018 exams 

Following our recent exam session with the ADA, we are thrilled to have once again achieved a 100% pass rate. Congratulations and well done to all of our dancers - we are so proud of you all! 

End of year theatre trip

We had a great afternoon out at the Lowry watching Dr Doolittle and celebrating the end of another fantastic year at Oris Dance. Thanks to everyone that came along, including parents who came to help.

Tapathon 2018

Well done to 60 of our dancers who took part in this year's Children in Need Tapathon on Sunday 18th November. The atmosphere was electric with all those shoes tapping together! 

No Guinness World Record this time (for the largest tap dance across multiple venues), but over £37k raised for Children in Need and a great day had by all! Thank you and well done to everyone involved. 

We welcomed ex Pussycat Doll and TV dance judge, Kimberly Wyatt, for an exciting end-of-term dance workshop! 

We were so excited to have Kimberly Wyatt join us on the afternoon of 21st July. Kimberly ran two workshops for two different age groups working on technique, confidence and a fantastic commercial routine with us. There was also time for lots of photos and autograph signing! A fantastic day - thank you Kim! x

Teddy Bear's Picnic..."If you go down to Oris Dance today..."

We had a lovely end to the school year with our yongest dancers at our Teddy Bear's Picnic on 21st July. Teddies, cake and of course lots of dancing! Thanks to everyone who came. 

St Julie's Gala

Thanks to St Julie's who invited us to perform at their summer gala on 15th July. Well done dancers - you did us proud!

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