BRIT Life
Professional, useful and state of the art, our facilities are vital to what makes us one of the leading arts schools.
Facilities
Each department has facilities designed specifically for their courses. The following is a small selection of what we have on offer:
• Two fully equipped theatres
• Three fully equipped dance studios
• Mac suites
• A scenic construction workshop and paint frame
• Sir George Martin Recording studios and YouTube Music TV studio & gallery
• Costume design and construction rooms
• Library, archive and professionally trained librarians to help you with your research and studies.
• Make up and props workshop
• Print workshop and photography dark room
• Nile Rodgers Music Suite of practice rooms
• 3D printer and laser cutter
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Peripatetic Classes
The BRIT School provides facilities for students to enrol for private instrumental, voice, theory or technology lessons with highly skilled and industry experienced professional music teachers. These lessons take place during the normal school day and a full course consists of 27 lessons. There is an annual fee for peripatetic lessons. Some bursaries are available to assist with the cost, provided through The Utley Foundation. Courses are available in voice, guitar( electric / acoustic / classical), bass guitar, drums, piano, violin, saxophone, flute, clarinet, music technology, music theory, songwriting and DJing. All information and teachers’ biographies can be found at
www. brit. croydon. sch. uk / peri
The Peripatetic Dance Programme offers all students the opportunity to take ISTD examination classes in Ballet, Modern & Tap from Intermediate to Advanced 2 level. There is also a host of Open Classes for students to access from Jazz to Ballet, Yoga and Commercial. The programme is in place to stretch students ' experience and skills development. There is an annual fee for these lessons.
Khronos Dance Company
Khronos was founded in 2009 by dance teacher Julia Dark initially as an all-male youth dance company. The aim of the company is to provide a creative and performance platform for young males in a safe and encouraging environment. Through performance and outreach work Khronos Agoria aim to break social stereotypes of males in dance offering a positive experience embracing masculinity and athleticism. The group became semi-finalists of Britain’ s Got Talent in 2016. In 2018, Khronos Girls was established to provide the same opportunities for our female dancers. They reached the semifinals of Britain’ s Got Talent in 2019. The company also runs youth classes at the school for boys and girls aged 8 – 16 years.