SoaR Dance Studio
A Dance Studio, South of River
Open Dance Classes for anyone aged 15 - 55 and beyond
City of Cockburn
Our Story
A life without the joy of Dance is barely worth living, at least that's how we feel about it. We are SoaR Dance Studio, a Dance Studio offering casual drop-in Open Classes South of the River, Perth.
Emma and Charlie, the operators of this studio are both former Professional-level Classically Trained Dancers who both reside in the Cockburn area. Emma having grown up in Perth and Charlie having moved over from Sydney, met in July 2018 and quickly bonded through a mutual love of Dance.
We were attending open classes together to refresh and maintain our skills (after both having extended periods away from the dance world) and quickly became exhausted having to endure the commute between North and South. Battling the freeway to cross the river, and negotiate parking; we often found ourselves rushing into the studio overwhelmed and frustrated in our attempts to make it on time. It would take half the class to finally find ourselves again and by the time our passion and expression had surfaced, it was then time to wrap up and go home. We'd walk (or dance) out of class on such a high, only to then have to drive home tired and fatigued late at night. Anyone who lives in Perth knows what's it's like to get over that commute.
Trying to find alternative solutions closer to home, we constantly came up empty, adult classes were often an add-on to youth after-school dance schools and offered short 45-60 minute adult classes and we couldn't really find somewhere that we fit. After coming up completely empty, we finally looked at each other one day and thought, "We have more than 50 years of dance and fitness experience between us, surely other people are experiencing the same frustration that we are, why don't we just create a school down here ourselves?" and so the idea of A Dance Studio SoR emerged.
Our Purpose Our Beliefs Our Why
“We believe that a life without Dance is a life barely worth living, so our purpose is to make Dance more accessible, more affordable, and create more opportunity for anyone who believes the same.
At SoaR Dance Studio, we stand and dance for the Everyday Jane and Everyday Joe, and do our best to accept anyone through our doors and into our hearts, regardless of their physical attributes, location or lifestyle.
We are on a journey to build a community and envision a world where anyone and everyone can come together to love and enjoy a life that's worth living.”
SoaR Dance Studio caters to all levels of experience for anyone aged 15 to 55 and beyond.
Instead of creating our own Dance Studio within a fixed location, to make things more accessible for our people, we've decided to go mobile and hire Community Halls throughout the Region. This will enable us to provide classes throughout the City of Cockburn so instead of having to trek to us, we will come to a place near you.
In the near future, we will be launching an unlimited class membership based model to make bulk classes much more affordable for those wanting to attend as regulars. For more information, visit our Price List page.
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