Academies Fine Arts

Learn to express your worship through movement and explore the why, how and when of dance in the Bible. Develop your skills using Biblical movements and find creative ways to express a message. Understand why people don’t experience freedom in dance, discover your own inhibitions and have the opportunity to break free from them. Additionally, receive an introduction to using worship props like flags, cloth, ribbons and tambourines.

Learn to express your worship through movement and explore the why, how and when of dance in the Bible. Develop your skills using Biblical movements and find creative ways to express a message. Understand why people don’t experience freedom in dance, discover your own inhibitions and have the opportunity to break free from them. Additionally, receive an introduction to using worship props like flags, cloth, ribbons and tambourines.

Learn about some characteristics of flags based on God's word and how that applies to your worship. Practice circles and figure of 8's as foundational flag movements and well as two short combinations which adds body movement to the flag movements. Briefly view various types of flags and meaning of colours. Choreograph your own dance with a flag and receive input through the choreography process.

Learn about the remaining characteristics of flags based on God's Word, bringing a depth in worship and prophetic declarations. Develop the coordination of flag and body movements further with two new combinations and choreographing a full dance that can be ministered to almost every audience.

Learn new more complex movements with flags & more specifically larger flags. Develop deeper in free worship dynamics. Choreograph two dances with medium to large flags based on given themes.

The group creates a 20min production using various sizes & types of flags. Students are fully in charge of every facet of the production, but guided and facilitated by the teacher.

Practical guidelines on cloth (medium & large fabric). Learn 8 movements, statues & develop creativity through various free worship facilitations. Apply movements and creativity developed in choreographing of own short dance and receive input through the choreography process.

Learn how to dance with a mediums & large fabric individually or in pairs. Develop worship dynamics in pairs with both medium and large fabrics & how to prophetically dance out over a person. Choreograph own full-length dance.

Learn new more complex movements with the cloth. Develop deeper in free worship dynamics in individually, in pairs and as a group. Choreograph two dances with medium and large fabrics based on given themes: one - individual dance, another - duet.

The group creates a 20min production using various sizes & types of fabrics as well as costumes (as a form of fabric enhancing the message). Students are fully in charge of every facet of the production, but guided and facilitated by the teacher.

Learn a few ribbon movements and how to combine it with body movements to bring across a message. Explore creativity in God's presence through free worship facilitations and find depth in God's Word related to ribbons. Choreograph your own dance with a ribbon and receive input through the choreography process.

Continue learning more variety of ribbon movements and expand body and ribbon creativity while dancing with more than one ribbon at time. Develop deeper spirit dynamics in free worship facilitations. Choreograph a dance with more ribbon variations while receiving input throughout the choreography process.

Learn new more complex movements with ribbons (throwing & catching, etc). Develop deeper in free worship dynamics as a group or in pairs. Choreograph two dances with ribbons based on given themes with input being received through the choreography process.

The group creates a 20min production using various sizes & types of ribbons. Students are fully in charge of every facet of the production, but guided and facilitated by the teacher.

See where and why tambourines was used in the Word. Learn practical guidelines on how to use the tambourine and 6 tambourine patterns. Develop in leading others spontaneously with these patterns and creating you own patterns applicable to given praise songs. 

Explore variety of rhythms using tambourine techniques and creating your own rhythms and sequences with it to compliment various songs to bring acorss a message that ministers. Choreograph your own dance while receiving input through the process.

Learn more daring tambourine techniques like throw & catch, ribbon swings, etc. Explore greater creativity and spiritual impact in free worship facilitations. Choreograph two tambourine dances while recieving input throughout the choreography process.

The group creates a 20min production using tambourines. Students are fully in charge of every facet of the production, but guided and facilitated by the teacher. 

Choreograph an individual dance and receive input through the choreography process. Learn how to use various body shapes, themes, music styles & sounds to compliment the rhythm, flow and feel of a song, in order to carry out a message of life to an audience. Learn to adopts all the different skills so that the person can focus on the Holy Spirit and that a powerful inspired choreographed dance will flow out of it in ministry to people.

Choreograph a group dance as a class together facilitated by the teacher. Explore various formations and how they can enhance or retract from a message. 

Guidelines on how to move to the spoken word (poems & scripture). Improve creativity on a deeper level as you explore various avenues in the exerices. Chreograph a dance on your own written poem.

Digging deeper into poems as you write your own poem (however,in-depth teaching in the latter is dealt with in Writing class) and choreograph a message of impact combining a few scriptures for a relevant audience. More exercises to stretch your creativity even further.  

Create rhythms using your body to bring across a message. Discover a Biblical view on the power of  clapping, stamping and other percussion rhtyhms. Learn a few basic combinations, rhythms and how to create your own combinations using only your body. 

Delve deeper into the power of a rhythmic message created with your body, as well as props from your everyday surroundings. At this next level the group work together to create a message of greater impact using percussion dance.

Learn foundational gymnastics principles & techniques: balance stands, jumps, turns, rolls & stands (handstand, headstand, cartwheel). Apply it in creating two combinations. The aim of this subject is not to become a gymnast, but merely receive and introduction of explosive movements to give your next dance choreography the "exploding" factor.

Learn how to use the basic skills obtained in level 1 to enhance the message of a dance through a facilitated class choreogrpahy.

Learn various generic hip hop skills in the Warm-up, Bounce, Arms, Footwork & Floor Combinations as well as develop an understanding of foundations of hip hop in the Old School Combo & newer fresh vocabulary with the Trending Combination. Apply the vocabulary & expand your creativity in freestyling facilitations & choreography. All this is based on Godly music, focus & ministry. Choreograph your own short sequence or learn a full dance to minister with.

 Learn how to train the body a language of worship using aerobic exericse. Develop in the foundations in putting together a routine, breaking it down and what general exercise focus it has. Dance Theory 1 or similar anatomy knowledge is a pre-requisite.

Building on level 1's foundations, dig deeper into higher intensity workouts, variations and how to adapt movements or exercises more effectively for persons with physical limitations, injuries or at higher fitness levels.

Learn how God wants to restore the dance to its original purpose of beauty and powerful impact. This is a theoretical course for all pastors, ministry leaders and anyone involved in any form of dancing

Following on level 1, here we look into what the impact is of restored dance. The impact of dancing in prayer, the prophetic, personal lives and even secular spheres.

Build good body posture and vocabulary based om modern, ballet and a touch of hip hop dance. Learn from the foundational techniques such as plié, tendu, developé, warm-up & porte bras, then applying it to various sequences and building to more complex techniques such as various forms of jumps, leaps, turns, etc. Each level develops a higher skill level.

Theoretical subject to enhance understanding, execution and teaching of all kinds of dance. Learn the spiritual aspect of dance, anatomy, dance history, dance terminology and music theory applicable to dance.

Learn how to teach each dance class you have completed.

Starting with foundational hip hop dance technqiues (bounce, heeldigs, foot swivels, pivot turns, etc) and breakdance skills (froggie, plank, handstand kick-ups), this level assists in an easy growth to higher levels afterwards. Dancers learn a basic dance to apply skills to portray a message.

Explore more variations of creative movements from the student's own pool of vocabulary inspired by the Holy Spirit. Complete a Word Study on the theme of the student's dance to bring depth in meaning. Explore choreography in duets/trio's as well as further advance individual choreography. More complex principles of choreography is learnt.

The group creates a 20min production using a variety of group sizes & individual dances. Students are fully in charge of every facet of the production, but guided and facilitated by the teacher. 

Develop deeper in spontaneous worship dynamics on spoken word (pprophetic words or scripture). Choreograph two dances on own or existing poems and scripture threads.

The group creates a 20min production using poems, spoken word and scriptures. Students are fully in charge of every facet of the production, but guided and facilitated by the teacher. 

Apply level 1 & 2's skill when learning a dance with a clear message to minister to audiences.

Growing worship and creativity in the heart of the dancer. Continue developing foundational techniques of dance (warm-up, tendu, plié, relevé, sauté, turns & spotting) to incorporate it in worshipping Father God.

In preparation for Hip Hop 1, increase hip hop vocabulary and strength, start getting involved in the choreography process and apply own and newly learnt vocabulary in a ministry hip hop dance