LESTA Studios · Knaphill, Woking, Surrey
07773 121884
Vocational pathway
Not just additional classes. Excel is a package of knowledge, training, mentoring and support for dancers with a burning passion to reach their full potential, taught at LESTA Studios in Knaphill.
More than extra hours
Excel has been built around core classes and extra coaching. Dancers gain the technique and performance skills they would need to enter the performing arts industry one day - training with industry professionals, alongside like-minded peers, in a safe, nurturing environment at our Knaphill studios.
Junior, Intermediate and Senior Excel each have their own coaching block in the week. Around that sit the foundation classes every Excel dancer commits to: ISTD ballet and modern, open ballet, PBT, stretch, and turns and leaps.
The Excel week
Three coaching blocks at LESTA Studios, Knaphill. Times are the current Excel schedule; we confirm the right programme when a dancer is invited or auditions.
First step · 01
Mondays
4.00pm to 5.00pm · 1 hour
The first step onto the Excel pathway - technique, artistry and mentoring for dedicated younger dancers in Woking, taught at LESTA Studios in Knaphill.
Coaching block + foundation classes
Deepening · 02
Tuesdays
4.45pm to 6.15pm · 1 hour 30 minutes
A longer coaching block for dancers ready to deepen ballet, jazz and open-class work alongside their graded ISTD training in Surrey.
Coaching block + foundation classes
Industry-minded · 03
Tuesdays
6.15pm to 8.15pm · 2 hours
Two hours of ballet coaching, jazz technique and open class - industry-minded training in a nurturing Knaphill studio, alongside like-minded peers.
Inside the programme
A curriculum of craft and character - not a pile of extra hours without a plan.
Ballet, contemporary, commercial, lyrical, acro and jazz
Technique and conditioning
Goal setting, gratitude, team building, etiquette, mindfulness and wellbeing
Dancer assessments
Mentoring sessions
Performance opportunities
Minimum commitment
Excel dancers' foundation classes have been carefully selected so they develop the strength to thrive. These are the minimum requirement; additional classes are welcome and encouraged.
Show 2026
Vocational training shows on a proper stage. These stills are from 16 to 18 April 2026.
