HISTORY

The Claire Buckley School of Dancing was established in September 1999 by Claire Buckley who has been dancing since the age of three years. Claire began her dancing career and gained her teaching qualification at The Sylvera School of Dancing.

Claire’s love of Dance and becoming a qualified Danced Teacher with IDTA led to the opening The Claire Buckley School of Dance in Higham, Kent whilst having a young family. Dance Classes were becoming increasingly popular with the Local Community where Claire offered Classes in Ballet, Tap and Jazz. These Classes soon expanded as numbers grew.

Classes expanded to Cliffe offering street dance and musical theatre classes.

Our Musical theatre classes which run on Saturday mornings, have become very popular with the local children.

The Claire Buckley School of Dancing hold a show every year at The Brook Theatre in Chatham and have previously entered children into Exams following the IDTA Syllabus.

In 2017 the school entered their first competition and qualified to the finals in Blackpool gaining 3rd place in our category.

We will be celebrating our 25th Anniversary this year so have lots of exciting things in the planning