Haslemere Performing Arts

Haslemere Performing Arts is a dance and musical Theatre school whose Principal is Angela Cantan. The school was first started in 1968 and has grown and developed over the years. There are many lessons run each week with with classes in Fernhurst, Liphook, Beacon Hill and Haslemere.

What's available

Haslemere Performing Arts provides the opportunity to learn Ballet, Tap, Modern & Contemporary Dance as well as coaching in Musical Theatre, Pantomime and Vocal Coaching.

The school is focused on developing young children from preschool age all the way to school levers and provides syllabus classes, Fun Workshops for all ages. Some former pupils have returned as fully qualified teachers and now teach. All our teachers and tutors are experienced and qualified and fully CRB checked.

Back in December and January HPA held the home round of the British Arts Awards and for many HPA dancers this was their first time in a competition. Half our entries were called to the semi-final round held in Andover and last month several pupils competed in the final with dancers from all over the country. HPA won trophies for the Senior National Group (Korean), Junior Character Group (Picnic), Junior Ballet Small Group (Blue Polka).
Individual trophies and medals were won by Alice Manville, Jerome Barnes, Fraser Roach, Rebecca and Sam Ryan, Elli Slater and Murielle Werthauer.
Earlier in the year several dancers entered Chichester and Guildford Festivals and HPA came away with a large number of awards and trophies. So congratulations to all those who took part, especially Elli Slater who gained the highest mark of the Festival. At the recent ‘Haslemere’s Got Talent’ competition HPA pupils, including the Festival Group performing Hairspray reached the final concert and Sam Ryan was awarded third overall place.

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Alice Manville, Jerome Barnes and Rebecca Ryan have competed in the regional final of the
All-England Dance Competition. We are very pleased that Alice Manville gained a distinction with her song and dance ‘My
Old Man’s A Dustman’. Jerome gained Honours and 1st place for his National and Modern dances and Honours for
his ballet solo and Rebecca gained Honours for her National solo and she won the Greek section. They both now
go through to the finals in London next month.