Health and Wellbeing Courses
Take your ballroom dancing to the next level by refining your technique, style and performance skills. This course is designed for learners with previous ballroom dance experience who want to build confidence, improve their ability and enjoy dancing in a friendly and supportive environment.
Learners will develop more advanced dance routines while improving posture, timing, musicality and partner work across a range of traditional ballroom dances.
Progression Opportunities
Learners can continue developing their ballroom dancing skills through advanced classes, social dance events and community dance groups while enjoying the physical, social and wellbeing benefits of dance.
Term: Autumn
Dates: Mondays, 14 September - 7 December 2026
Time: 6.15 – 8.15pm
Venue: Golden Lane Community Centre, London EC1Y 0RN
Fee per term: £216
Concession: £75
Switch off those television dance shows and learn the poise, steps, and artistry of Ballroom and Latin dancing for yourself! You’ll discover popular styles, including the Waltz, Tango, Quickstep, Foxtrot, Rumba, Cha Cha Cha, Samba, and Jive. Alongside mastering the steps and refining your style and technique, you’ll improve your fitness and make new friends – no partner required. This course is ideal for beginners, improvers, and those returning to dance who want to brush up on their basics.
Ballroom and Latin dancing is an equal partnership between a ‘leader’ and a ‘follower’. In essence, the leader initiates a dance move, and the follower responds, completing the movement. Traditionally, men dance as leaders and women as followers, but anyone is welcome to choose either role.
Progression Opportunities
Successful learners can progress to Ballroom Dance – Intermediate & Advanced or continue participating in community dance classes and social dance events while developing their skills and enjoying the health and wellbeing.
*Please select the role of leader or follower when enrolling. If your chosen role is fully booked and you do not wish to learn the opposite role, please add your name to the waiting list. Additional spaces may become available depending on the ratio of leaders to followers who enrol.
Term: Autumn
Dates: Tuesdays, 15 September - 8 December 2026
Time: 5 - 7pm
Venue: Golden Lane Community Centre, London EC1Y 0RN
Fee per term: £216
Concession: £75
Improve your strength, flexibility and overall wellbeing through this enjoyable and low-impact Pilates course. Suitable for learners of all abilities, the course focuses on controlled movements that help strengthen the body's core muscles, improve posture and increase mobility.
Led by an experienced tutor, sessions are designed to help learners move with greater confidence while promoting relaxation, balance and physical wellbeing in a friendly and supportive environment.
Progression Opportunities
Learners can continue attending Pilates classes, progress to other health and wellbeing courses or use the techniques learned to support an active, healthy lifestyle and improve long-term physical wellbeing.
Term: Autumn
Dates: Wednesdays, 16 September - 9 December 2026
Time: 2 – 3:15pm
Venue: Golden Lane Community Centre, London EC1Y 0RN
Fee per term: £135
Concession: £75
To be eligible for funding on our free courses you should be a UK national or an EEA national with pre-settled or settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme and have been resident in the UK/EEA for the past three years. To be eligible for concessionary rates, you need to meet the aforementioned criteria and be 60 years of age or over, or be in receipt of Universal Credit Proof may be required, more information about this is on the enrolment form.
Contact the Adult Education Team for further information about our courses.
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All course information is subject to change.