Welcome to Dancing Feet Academy of Dance

🎉 WE DID IT! 🎉

What a night!

We are incredibly proud, humbled, and grateful to announce that Dancing Feet Academy of Dance has won the North Devon Business Award 2026 for Art & Creative Visionary! 🏆✨

On Thursday 4th June, we attended the beautiful North Devon Business Awards and spent the evening surrounded by so many inspiring and talented businesses. When our category was announced first and we heard Dancing Feet Academy named as the winner, we were absolutely overwhelmed!

We are so grateful to be recognised for what we do at DFA and for what we bring to Braunton and the wider North Devon community. We truly love what we do, and none of it would be possible without every single person who is part of our DFA family. Thank you all for your continued support, encouragement, and belief in us.

A very special thank you goes to our incredible DFA teaching team. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such talented teachers and choreographers, but also by such supportive friends. Your dedication, passion, and hard work help make DFA what it is, and we are endlessly grateful to each and every one of you.

We would also like to thank our families for their constant love and support. Being able to work together as mother and daughter is something truly special, and standing on that stage last night, surrounded by so many outstanding North Devon businesses, celebrating everything we have achieved so far, was a moment we will treasure forever.

To all our students, teachers, parents, supporters, and everyone who has been part of our journey—past and present—thank you from the bottom of our hearts. ❤️

We cannot wait to show the students this award in class this weekend!

Here’s to the future of DFA and all the exciting things still to come. ✨

With love and gratitude,

Miss Nadine & Miss Natasha x

Mission and Aims

Our mission is to create a safe, caring, friendly, productive learning environment in which pupils and students are encouraged to reach their full potential. We seek to accomplish our mission through providing performance opportunities and offer examinations and assessments to reward achievement.

Performance Opportunities

The Academy produces its own full scale production show at the Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple every two years. Every pupil from age 4+ is invited to take part and many groups from the show are then entered into the North Devon Performing Arts Festival held in October each year. Other performance opportunities have included: Summer Seasons at the Saunton Sands Hotel, Pantomime and two West End performances at the London Shaftsbury Theatre & The London Palladium.

Our goals are to:

Provide, in a caring and happy environment, artistic training to the highest possible level, offering all students of the Academy a positive learning experience which is constantly monitored for potential improvement.

Offer students as many performing opportunities as possible.

Ensure that classes are professionally structured creating a fun way to exercise whilst also building self confidence.

Offer help and guidance to those students wanting to audition for places at the UK’s top performing arts/dance schools and colleges.

Offer help and advice to those wishing to turn a hobby into a professional career.

Provide a ‘Presentation & Awards Evening’ at the end of each year whereby all students are presented with certificates of achievement whether it be for examinations or assessments.

Ensure that all students are part of something that they will remember for the rest of their lives.