The Academy of Professional Physical Arts is Northern Ireland's leading provider of combined physical arts training. APPA-NI provides opportunities in multiple forms of physical arts techniques including Ballet, Jazz / Urban Street Dance, Aerial Dance, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Acrobatic Tumbling and Pilates.

Balancing amalgamated techniques and artistry with educational needs, APPA-NI's instructors, working within purpose built training facilities, provide a positive and unique learning environment for combined physical arts training.

APPA-NI delivers training for all ages and abilities in disciplines including Ballet, Jazz, Urban Street, Aerial Dance, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Acrobatic Tumbling and Pilates.

As an HMRC registered charity, APPA-NI also places great emphasis in offering a number of community-outreach initiatives and programmes. This helps to ensure broad accessibility to the benefits of our physical arts training.



Facilities

APPA-NI is based at its newly developed, specialist physical arts centre in Castlereagh, Belfast. Meticulously designed and finished to the highest of standards, there is no other facility of its type in Northern Ireland.

The Dance Studio houses a 13.5m x 17m Harlequin sprung floor - the newest of its kind in Northern Ireland. The room's high ceiling, mirrors, barres, music centre and Piano means it can facilitate dance and displays of any standard.

Our 14m x 14m Rhythmic Floor is of continental high performance and is dressed in a low friction carpet on a sprung sub-base, providing high quality cushioning and rebound for students and performers.

The 14.5m x 15m Aerial Space facilitates six suspended training units. These include three silks, one rope, a four person trapeze and one hoop / lyra. The considered design of the aerial space means training can be undertaken and overseen in the safest possible physical environment.

The Airtrack and Acrobatic area is 9m x 14.5m.



Dance



The art form of dance provides the potential for expression through movement. Its use of nonverbal communication allows dance to give learners the opportunity to participate in a way that is different from any other area of conventional learning.

Ballet is the oldest devised dance technique and it requires years of training to learn and master, with considerable practice required to retain proficiency and skill. Ballet develops alignment, coordination, musicality, strength, flexibility and refined elegance in movement and it is a fundamental technique in the training of a dancer.

Street dance is a merging of various dance forms mixing diverse components from many different dance styles including hip hop popping, locking and break dancing to elements of jazz, contemporary and commercial dance making it into a very fast, physical, funky and motivating form of dance. APPA-NI's fully equipped Dance Studio facilitates teaching, learning and performing in a range of dance disciplines at all levels and abilities.



Gymnastics



Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics and dance with apparatus handling. Gymnasts work with rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon alongside developing the skills required for body strength, flexibility, balance and coordination. Musicality is developed through devised sequences showing body rotations, balances and elevated leaps which combine grace, coordination, agility and artistry.

APPA-NI's Continental high performance Rhythmic Floor allows staff to provide training and artists to perform in a professional and comfortable environment.



Acrobatics

Acrobatic gymnastics develops the art of balance. It combines strength, flexibility and technical precision of gymnastics with the grace and musicality of dance alongside the trust and camaraderie of learner partnership.

Tumbling is characterised by swift and rhythmical succession of acrobatic bounding from hands to feet, feet to hands or feet directly back onto feet. Tumbling is the perfect sport

The Academy of Professional Physical Arts is Northern Ireland's leading provider of combined physical arts training. APPA-NI provides opportunities in multiple forms of physical arts techniques including Ballet, Jazz / Urban Street Dance, Aerial Dance, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Acrobatic Tumbling and Pilates.

Balancing amalgamated techniques and artistry with educational needs, APPA-NI's instructors, working within purpose built training facilities, provide a positive and unique learning environment for combined physical arts training.

APPA-NI delivers training for all ages and abilities in disciplines including Ballet, Jazz, Urban Street, Aerial Dance, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Acrobatic Tumbling and Pilates.

As an HMRC registered charity, APPA-NI also places great emphasis in offering a number of community-outreach initiatives and programmes. This helps to ensure broad accessibility to the benefits of our physical arts training.



Facilities

APPA-NI is based at its newly developed, specialist physical arts centre in Castlereagh, Belfast. Meticulously designed and finished to the highest of standards, there is no other facility of its type in Northern Ireland.

The Dance Studio houses a 13.5m x 17m Harlequin sprung floor - the newest of its kind in Northern Ireland. The room's high ceiling, mirrors, barres, music centre and Piano means it can facilitate dance and displays of any standard.

Our 14m x 14m Rhythmic Floor is of continental high performance and is dressed in a low friction carpet on a sprung sub-base, providing high quality cushioning and rebound for students and performers.

The 14.5m x 15m Aerial Space facilitates six suspended training units. These include three silks, one rope, a four person trapeze and one hoop / lyra. The considered design of the aerial space means training can be undertaken and overseen in the safest possible physical environment.

The Airtrack and Acrobatic area is 9m x 14.5m.



Dance



The art form of dance provides the potential for expression through movement. Its use of nonverbal communication allows dance to give learners the opportunity to participate in a way that is different from any other area of conventional learning.

Ballet is the oldest devised dance technique and it requires years of training to learn and master, with considerable practice required to retain proficiency and skill. Ballet develops alignment, coordination, musicality, strength, flexibility and refined elegance in movement and it is a fundamental technique in the training of a dancer.

Street dance is a merging of various dance forms mixing diverse components from many different dance styles including hip hop popping, locking and break dancing to elements of jazz, contemporary and commercial dance making it into a very fast, physical, funky and motivating form of dance. APPA-NI's fully equipped Dance Studio facilitates teaching, learning and performing in a range of dance disciplines at all levels and abilities.



Gymnastics



Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics and dance with apparatus handling. Gymnasts work with rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon alongside developing the skills required for body strength, flexibility, balance and coordination. Musicality is developed through devised sequences showing body rotations, balances and elevated leaps which combine grace, coordination, agility and artistry.

APPA-NI's Continental high performance Rhythmic Floor allows staff to provide training and artists to perform in a professional and comfortable environment.



Acrobatics

Acrobatic gymnastics develops the art of balance. It combines strength, flexibility and technical precision of gymnastics with the grace and musicality of dance alongside the trust and camaraderie of learner partnership.

Tumbling is characterised by swift and rhythmical succession of acrobatic bounding from hands to feet, feet to hands or feet directly back onto feet. Tumbling is the perfect sport

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