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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StageShine - Haslemere Performing Arts' Musical Theatre Group - having played to appreciative and cheering audiences with their performances of Schools We Will Rock You at Guildford's Electric Theatre and Guys and Dolls at the Haslemere Hall - continued their run of successful productions with Dick Whittington this Christmas.
Fully staged with lighting, costumes and specially orchestrated backing tracks, the young performers aged between 6 and 16 tackled with ease the difficult art of pantomime and thoroughly entertained their audiences - "As good as adults" was a frequently heard comment.
StageShine's directors believe that it is not necessary for parents to pay hundreds of pounds in fees for their children to achieve a high standard and by double casting, everyone is given a chance to be a principal.