DEC

Musical Theatre is offered at DEC as a training ground for students wanting the performing arts including voice work. It is an eccletic slant on aspects of musical theatre, from movement to voice development and more. School productions more and more want students to have theatre skills and knowledge and DEC is offering that along with developing another performance aspect for our dancers... The Dance Education Centre was established in 1990 in Tauranga, NZ, from the Prue Gooch School of Dance, which began in the mid '70s. The DEC brought together two prominent dance schools of the area and formed broad-based dance training with a view to excellence in performance and examinations... The DEC offers training in classical ballet with their own assessment programme designed by Prue and Debbie. Vocational syllabus are offered from the Intermediate level with The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD).

Also known as: Dance Education Centre