THE FACTORY DANCE
ACADEMY
THE FACTORY
DANCE ACADEMY
FDA is a not-for-profit dance school working with over
1110 young people and adults each week across the
North East. Set up in 2007 by Gary and Anna Melling
as the dance arm of parent company NE Music Factory
CIC.
The dance school was set up to offer affordable and
accessible dance opportunities and has gone from
strength to strength, in the last 12 months alone has
seen a ‘throughput’ of 80,000 individual attendances at
dance sessions across the region.
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ISSUE 01
Supported by Children in Need, Sport England and
Street Games, FDA work in schools and community
settings across the region as well as running a dance
training centre in Blyth, Northumberland.
FDA specialise in Street Cheer, Hip Hop, Break Dance
and Cardio Fit but have seen a massive surge in the
popularity of Street Cheer over the last couple of years.
Street Cheer is a fusion of Street Dance and All
American Cheer and used pom poms and vocal skills
to create this unique dance form.