As Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) approach their 120th anniversary we are honoured to have been chosen to create a new high quality, flexible and sustainable uniform for both students and teachers. Over the coming weeks our innovative design team will be working with ISTD and their members to create a bespoke, modern and forward looking capsule collection. Their new uniform will offer choice, flexibility and be part of our continual efforts to reduce the negative environmental impact of dance clothes. Gemma Matthews ISTD Director of Membership and Communications: “We decided ..read more

When the Royal Ballet School recently launched their new Affiliate Training and Assessment programme we were so pleased that they wanted Dansez to design and make a dedicated set of dance clothes for the students of the recreational dance training programme. This new programme is a unique approach to the training of young dancers, firmly rooted in the School’s values that takes a holistic approach to the learning of dance. It is based on providing high quality training rather than focusing on student examination. Students at all levels will learn ballet technique, repertoire, choreography and ..read more

It barely seems possible that it’s a year since we all gathered in Birmingham for the GradPro Showcase Final. The 2023 regional events have come and gone with another talented group of graduate dancers and we are now so excited to be heading towards the second Gradpro Showcase Final. Building on the huge success of the launch of GradPro in 2022 we are also delighted to be part of the GradPro team supporting Julie Bowers and Brandon Lawrence as they continue their vision of helping dance graduates towards launching their dance careers. In 2022 the finalists of GradPro all went on to lau ..read more

Today is International Women's Day and we thought that this year it was about time that we talked more about the women of Dansez. Dansez is a team mainly of women across the different parts of our UK manufacturing and distribution, but we are going to start with Julie who leads the team of women who make the thousands of leotards every year that find their way around the world. When we tell the story of Dansez, Julie has been a constant for the past 20 years. Her dedication to creating beautiful hand made dance clothes has been an inspiration to the the team who draw every pattern, cut over ..read more

Often people ask us where we get the names of leotards from. It’s a good question because it is not always an easy job finding the right name, that balance between being a catchy name and saying something about the leotard. If you take a look at our range of products you’ll see what we mean! For one leotard though it was an easy decision - 20 years ago a little girl called Alexia Bergman came into the world of Dansez. The daughter of Samantha, our MD and Alan Bergman, the original founder of Dansez, Alexia became a big name in the dance world. At the tender age of two years she featured in t ..read more

Hosts, Julia Dixon and Brandon Lawrence bring a breath of fresh air to the back stories, the odd secret and shared passions in the magnificent world of dance. Julia is the founder of 'To The Pointe' blog and Brandon as many of us know, is one of the UK’s most incredible male dancers who leaves audiences mesmerised each time he performs as a Principal Dancer of Birmingham Royal Ballet. Together they have shined a bright light into what can sometimes feel an elite or even closed world of tutus and tights! This is must podcast series for anyone who wants to known a little bit more, with Julia a ..read more

When you have a bunch of super talented dancers supported and encouraged by some of the UKs top dance professionals, coaches and mentors then there is bound to be an exciting outcome. The first GradPro, created by Julie Bowers and Brandon Lawrence, took to the stage in 2022 and did exactly what it hoped to achieve…it gave vocational dance graduates a much needed boost post pandemic and opened up some exciting performance opportunities. Dansez has worked alongside Julie and Brandon from day one when the original concepts were being developed and has been a proud supporter of all the great wor ..read more

We recently worked with The Royal Ballet School to create a bespoke collection for their merchandise store. Throughout the design and production we had such a positive working experience with Pippa and the team at the Royal Ballet School. We were sent some feedback from Pippa that we wanted to share with you. So if you’re thinking of talking to us about your own bespoke collection or if you have a school uniform that you’d like us to take a look at, you know you’ll be in a safe pair of hands ? "We are incredibly proud to work in collaboration with Dansez. It is fantastic to be connected to a ..read more

It has been such a joy to be part of the development of GradPro, one of the best collaborative projects we have ever been involved in! So many people have given their time and enormous expertise to bring this event to its glittering Showcase Final held on Sunday 15th May at Elmhurst Ballet School. The theatre was filled with eager anticipation and support for the very talented graduates as they presented their pieces to an esteemed panel of judges. The idea for the project, to support graduates who were struggling post pandemic, was only conceived last November by Julie Bowers and Brandon Law ..read more

Our Champions are also passionate young dancers and Agnes Rosa Lamb, who attends The Jones Academy, has just attended, for the first time, the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) in Italy. It is the worlds largest global network of dance and reaches over 12,000 dance students aged 9-19 with a mission to support and develop world-class dancers through scholarship auditions, master classes, alumni services and outreach activities, performances and films. The finals are held in New York where 1200 young dancers receive in depth mentoring, scholarship and performance opportunities. It makes us very p ..read more