CHANTRAINE SCHOOL OF DANCE

News and Events

June 2025: The Chantraine School of Dance celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Wanstead centre and 10th anniversary of the Amersham centre, with a very special gala performance – Dancing in Times and Seasons with Vivaldi on the 8th June 2025, at the Pentland Theatre, North London.

February 2025: Celebrate Spring and Summer with Vivaldi at our all-day workshop on 23rd February. The workshop is suitable for adults of all ages and abilities and is open to children aged 8 years plus in the afternoon. For bookings and enquiries, please email Kate at info@chantrainedance.com.

October 2024: The Chantraine School of Dance celebrates United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP) 2024 themed: “Ageing with Dignity: The Importance of Strengthening Care and Support Systems for Older Persons Worldwide”.

July 2024: The Chantraine festival season is here! The Wanstead festival, ‘Worlds of Hope’ will take place on 7th July 2024 and the Amersham festival, ‘Tides of Transformation’ will take place on 14th July 2024. See the flyers below for more information.

April 2024: Dancers from the Amersham centre represented the Chantraine School of Dance at this year’s Honeycomb Festival. The group of six 11 and 12 year olds danced their own creation – ‘London Lights’ as well as ‘Rock and Heather’ choreographed by Françoise Chantraine. The Honeycomb Festival provides talented young people from the local area with a non-competitive performance platform. It was an honour to be a part of this year’s event at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre and dancers shone throughout.

March 2024: 14 Chantraine dancers (aged from 9 to from the Wanstead centre performed in the Redbridge Dance Link Gala.  The younger ones danced  Rodeo; older teenagers danced Birth and Believer; 2 adults danced The Clown.  They were a real credit to Chantraine Dance, in their dancing on stage and in their friendship in the dressing room.  An audience member said that the varied styles and music of the Chantraine choreographies and their inhabited dancing really shone out among the other dance schools.    

Photo by Mervin Archer.

February 2024: Photos from London-based one-day workshop discovering ‘Arti’ and ‘Eternity’, choreographed by Françoise Chantraine.

February 2021: To celebrate and support our magical theatres in such challenging times, for everyday in February 2021, the Chantraine School of Dance shared photographs from dance performances which took place on these iconic stages. All the photos can be found in the video below and were taken at a selection of Chantraine festivals, galas and anniversaries, held at theatres in England and France including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.