WHY EXAMINATIONS WILL BENEFIT YOUR CHILD
Please refer to the Exam & Competition Booklet for all requirements.
EXAM & COMPETITION STUDENTS PLEDGE – PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE ONCE
COMPETITION/EXAM PLEDGE FORM – CLICK ON LINK TO OPEN ONLINE FORM
Refer below to see how the grades run in order.
ALL EXAM ENTRIES ARE APPROVED AND ENTERED UNDER AND BY MISS TANIA (YOU WILL BE INVOICED ACCORDINGLY IN TERM 2 FOR ENTRIES)
CSTD EXAMINATION SYLLABI LEVELS
Please refer below to ensure you enrol your child into the correct exam class and level.
The Theatrical Performing Arts Syllabus released in 2015 as a revision of the Theatrical Syllabus. This syllabus comprises 10 Grades (includes 2 optional preliminary grades) plus a Teachers’ Certificate & Teachers’ Diploma. Fourteen levels are now available. It is a mixture of all genres jazz, tap, ballet and acrobatics now incorporating Musical Theatre. Singing and reading of excerpts (script) from current musicals and plays is required. This is how we create “TRIPLE THREAT DANCERS” who can dance, sing and act.
- Pre Tiny Tots
- TTA A & TTB
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Theatrical Performing Arts Dorothy Gladstone Award
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Senior Performers Shield-Theatrical Performing Arts
- Teachers’ Certificate
- Teachers’ Diploma
The Modern Jazz Syllabus released in 2004 comprises 10 Grades (includes 2 optional preliminary grades) plus a Teachers’ Certificate & Teachers’ Diploma. Fourteen levels are now available. The Modern Jazz Syllabus covers:
- Pre Tiny Tots
- TTA A & TTB
- Pre Modern Jazz
- Junior Modern Jazz
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Modern Jazz Dorothy Gladstone Award
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Grade 9 (released 2018)
- Jazz Shield
- Teachers’ Certificate
- Teachers’ Diploma
The Classical Ballet syllabi comprises the Foundation Grades Syllabus, Progressive Grades Syllabus and the Major Classical Syllabus.
The Progressive Grades Syllabus covers:
- Pre Ballet
- Primary
- Grade 1
- Grade 2
- Grade 3
- Grade 4
- Grade 5
- Grade 6 (optional in Australia)
- Dorothy Gladstone Award
- The Major Syllabus covers:
- Sub Elementary
- Elementary
- Intermediate
- Advanced
- Martin Rubenstein Award
- Premier Danseur
- Teachers’ Certificate
- Teachers’ Diploma
CSTD Tap Syllabus caters for candidates from 4 years upwards
- Preliminary Tap – Levels 1 & 2
- Elementary Bronze, Silver & Gold
- Intermediate Bronze, Silver, Gold & Gold Bar
- Dorothy Gladstone Tapping Award
- Advanced Bronze, Silver, Gold & Gold Bar
- Gold Star
- Gold Cross (Public Examination)
- Teacher’s Certificate
- Full Teacher’s Diploma
Our society offers exclusively the Jason Winters Contemporary Technique, a world-class and comprehensive Contemporary Dance syllabus. Its technique and structure is designed in the most classical and academic way and infused with choreographic electricity used in today’s most commercial settings. It provides the proper tools to create dancers capable of furthering their education at the University level or working in fields from a major dance company to stage, film or television. A unique collaboration between our International society and industry expert it provides “Dance for the 21st Century and beyond”.
This syllabus consists of seven levels providing a comprehensive collection of training philosophy’s and exercises for contemporary movements. Throughout the levels the foundation is laid for a strong, focused and fluid contemporary dancer with building blocks in Graham, Cunningham, Jazz, Classical, Yoga and Pilates, and Jason Winters own circular sense of movement.
This syllabus truly creates the platform and provides the path for the evolution of Contemporary Dance for the future.
- Foundation Level released October 2012
- Level 1 & 2 released May 2011
- Level 3 released February 2014
- Level 4 released February 2015
- Level 5 released January 2017