Expression Dance Academy

Welcome to Expression Dance Academy

Whether you’re looking for a new hobby, a fun way to increase your fitness, or to develop your self-confidence, or you’re looking to improve your technique and style, our classes are designed to help you achieve the results you’re looking for.
You will undoubtedly enjoy yourself, be inspired, learn something new, feel challenged, be successful.
Expression Dance Academy is for everyone: whether you are looking to perfect your dance skills, or you’ve never danced a day in your life, we can teach you to dance.
At Expression Dance Academy we believe dance is a beautiful way to living a happier, healthier and fuller life. Our dancers come to us from all ages, all backgrounds, levels of dance and experience.
Join our family today, come in for a dance and transform your life. Get in shape, feel great and have fun doing it.
We look forward to dancing with you!

ENTER THE WORLD OF DANCE
Enjoy dancing with us and feel amazing in your body!

Expression Dance Academy is a dance academy where you can find a wide range of courses of different levels: Belly Dance, Hawaiian Hula, ‘Ori Tahiti and Bollywood Dance.

At Expression Dance Academy you can find the ideal course for you. Learn from our easy-to-follow classes and choose between online on demand recorded classes, live Zoom Classes, in-studio classes, workshops and private online classes. Let our team of instructors teach and guide you on your journey into the world of dance. Our classes are structured around carefully developed teaching methodologies and provide a fun, safe and supportive environment to learn and/or develop dance skills.

With Expression Dance Academy you will learn the dance technique with a deep study of the steps, movements, combos and sequences through in-depth breakdowns of technique but not only this.. enjoy our classes and at the same time discover the culture, history, traditions, music and rhythms connected to these rich dance styles.

In-studio classes

Dance with us in person in Datchet and Windsor and participate to our weekly in-studio dance courses of Belly dance, Tahitian Dance and Bollywood Dance. Every course is divided in a 10-weeks term.

Zoom Classes

Join our Zoom lessons/courses online Study live with our teachers from anywhere in the world! Participating to our live classes is the best way to learn and to improve your dance skills is also a great opportunity to check your improvement and have an immediate feed back from the teacher. Lessons will be recorded so, if you can't participate you can watch them streaming when you want and at your own pace.

Online pre-recorded courses and tutorials

LEARN WITH US ONLINE! Learn from anywhere in the world with our online on demand recorded courses, tutorials and lessons. We have technique courses to improve your style or to better understand the steps or choose to learn beautiful and fun choreographies for your performances! IF YOU YOU WANT TO DEEPEN AND ENRICH YOUR DANCE STYLE AND TECHNIQUE Expression Dance Academy offers you the possibility to integrate your weekly in studio lessons with a choice of online pre-recorded courses dedicated to different themes and divided by levels. Expression Dance Academy offers you different online dance courses: each course includes different lessons that you can watch comfortably when you want and where you want and from any device ... Perfect your style and technique without time limits of time and place and from any type of device! Studying dance has become so easy! All you need is an internet network and a device (computer, mobile phone or tablet) and you can watch the videos one or more times in a row, interrupt them and repeat them as many times as you want, facilitating learning and memorisation. Choose here the course that suits you best!

Belly dance online courses

'Ori Tahiti online courses

Hawaiian hula online courses

Private tuition

Zoom Private one-to-one lessons of Belly Dance with Laura are available. Ask our teacher's advice, questions and help to improve your technique or to learn a new personalised choreography. Write us at info@expressiondanceacademy.co.ukfor more infos and to talk directly to the teacher to schedule the lessons

Workshops and intensive classes

Expression Dance Academy offers workshops, master classes and extra activities for all those students who already attend weekly courses and want to do learn and improve their dance, for all those who do not have time to regularly attend weekly courses or for students who want to learn specific aspects of the dance. The workshops and master classes consist of lessons of 2-3 hours which are mostly held on Saturdays or Sundays.

DISCOVER OUR DANCE STYLES

Learn to dance and choose below the dance style you are interested in to see our in-studio courses, Zoom Live courses, Workshops and private lessons.

At Expression Dance Academy you can find the dance that best suits you… from the sensual Belly Dance to the elegant Hawaiian Hula, the powerful ‘Ori Tahiti and the energetic and rich Bollywood Dance. Through our courses you will not only learn a new dance but you will discover new worlds, new cultures and new traditions.

Discover the most suitable dance for you! Choosing between different dance styles is often difficult and although they are all beautiful, harmonious and unique dances, each of us has a dance in our hearts that best belongs to us. If you are undecided about which dance to choose, the trial lesson is definitely a solution to start selecting YOUR dance. Contact us to book your free trial lesson, it will be a pleasure to be able to direct, advise and suggest which dance might be best for you.

In the meantime you can consult our dances here:

Workshops, intensive training & special lessons

Workshops

WORKSHOPS APRIL 2024

Saturday 27th April: SEGA DANCE WORKSHOP with MARIE REID in WINDSOR – Get ready to learn a beautiful and rich dance style: Mauritius Sega Dance. £25 | FULLY BOOKED

WORKSHOPS MAY 2024

Saturday 11th May: BELLY DANCE WORKSHOP “Drum Solo & Rhythms” with Daniela in WINDSOR – Learn how to control your body and translate the music through your moves. £25 | BOOK HERE

SHOWS & EVENTS

Do you want to make your event special?

Choose Expression Dance for your event!

Choose Expression Dance and its students for a unique dance show! For each dance we have different choreographies with original costumes, different styles and different dance accessories to use based on the event we are attending.

We will create an event for you to remember!

Do you fancy belly dance, Bollywood or Polynesian dance for your event? We have many students who study and dance in our school all year round. Our students love dance and study it with passion and many of them love to perform in events to be able to put into practice what they have studied. The students of the courses are ideal for:

Charity Fundraising – Events/Galas – Exhibitions, festivals and events – Special occasions (weddings, parties, etc.)

A live performance can make any event special and unique.

To book us for your event write us at info@expressiondanceacademy.co.uk

whose inspiration you love

Our teachers

Laura Cernigliaro

Laura Cernigliaro dancer and choreographer, with thirty years of experience in the world of dance, in her career she has successfully helped more than 2000 women to learn Egyptian Oriental Dance. In 2002 she founded the first school in Brescia of Oriental Dances and Arab Percussions (Associazione L ‘Aura), with which she spreads oriental dance initially in her city and subsequently throughout Italy, Europe, the Middle East and China. In 2016 she moved to Egypt where she further developed her career as a dancer in the best 4 and 5 star hotels as well as in prestigious stages in resorts and boats, amusement centers in Cairo and Sharm El Sheickh and in well-known Egyptian night clubs with live orchestra. . Since 2017 she has been the artistic director of the Academy of Ethnic Dances Asd ORIENTALYA where she particularly deals with the Professional Training of oriental dance teachers on behalf of AID & A and CSEN. She collaborates with the online academy of ethnic dances EXPRESSIONDANCEACADEMY in London. She is the producer of the oriental dance CD DIAMONDS FOR DANCERS. She is the creator of the online course 3 KEYS TO BELLYDANCE, the online course ARAB RHYTHMS FOR ORIENTAL DANCE and author of a PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM for oriental dance, with which she has trained and graduated over 100 dance teachers throughout Italy. In 2017 she retires from the stage but continues with passion her commitment to spreading and teaching oriental dance and the Egyptian culture linked to this art.

Daniela Belluati

Daniela Belluati is a dancer and choreographer of Polynesian Dance, Belly Dance and Bollywood with more than twenty years of experience in the dance world. In 2008 she founded in Brescia (ITALY) one of the first dance academies specialised in ethnic dances (asd haremdanza) of which she was President and Artistic Director. Since 2017 is the artistic director - section Polynesian Dance of the Academy of Ethnic Dances Asd Orientalya where she organised weekly classes of all levels and now is a lecturer and responsible for the national teacher training courses of Polynesian Dance and Bollywood Dance on behalf of CSEN (sport promotion institution recognised by C.O.N.I. - Italian National Olympic Committee). Daniela has promoted and taken part in numerous artistic and cultural projects both as a dancer and as a choreographer. She is a teacher and master teacher for festivals, events in Europe. She is the director of both Kailani Polynesian Dance England and Kailani Danze Polinesiane Italy - European School specialised in Polynesian Culture and Dance.

PARTNERS

Get to know our amazing partners!

We partner with amazing organisations and dance studios for classes, events and workshops! We’re proud to have partnered with a range of some amazing dance studios and organisations across the UK and EUROPE that share our vision of building stronger dance families. Meet some of them …

KAILANI Polynesian Dance – UK

ASD Orientalya – ITALY

LOVE THE BEAT Dance Studio – UK

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