Dakoda Dance Academy

Specialties

Dakoda’s Dance Academy offers the highest standard in childrens training in a variety of disciplines with care and attention given to each child. We offer a wide range of dance styles — Street Dance, Musical Theatre, West End Kidz, Ballet and many more for children from the age of 2 — 17. Students taking ballet classes are given the opportunity to participate in Royal Academy of Dance examinations and biennial theatre performances for charity are offered to all from the age of 6.

History

Established in 2007.

Dakoda has now taught dance for over 16 years at over 20 schools and academy’s to children, adults and professionals. In 2007 she put all her energy, passion and love of dance into one place & opened the DDA.

Meet the Business Owner

Dakoda M.

Business Owner

Born in Peterborough, Dakoda Matthews-​Forth, the Founder and Director of DDA, started her dance training at the age of four. She received a full scholarship to attend a three year residential dance/​dance teacher’s course at the Cardigan School of Dancing and continued to train in New York, LA, and Tokyo. She danced professionally and worldwide in TV, Music Videos, Commercials, Cabarets, Musical Theatre Shows, Jazz Festivals and others, for companies including Louis Vuitton, Diesel, Miss U niverse, Tokyo Disneyland, Tiffany’s, Gas, 20^th Century Fox, K-​Swiss, Mini-​Cooper, Adidas, Astra and Casio.

She holds teaching qualifications with the Royal Academy of Dance (Distinction) — The British Ballet Organization (Distinction) and The International Dance Teachers Association Tap and Modern Associates (Honours). She began preparing and entering students for RAD exams in 1996 and holds a 100% pass rate.