JOKSOD News

After being unable to run our programs at full capacity due to the restrictions over the last two years, we’re thrilled to be able to announce our Summer School program for 2022 on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th January! It’s a great way to start the year and we have some incredible and inspiring guest teachers joining us for the program that includes, classical ballet, contemporary, jazz, musical theatre, Lyrical, composition, hip hop and stretch! We love that our holiday progra...

So, you’ve decided you want to enrol your little one in dance or ballet classes. What a great decision! Dancing is a beautiful introduction to extra-curricular activity where your child gains so much joy from movement and self-expression. But there are so many dance schools out there with different offerings, how do you choose the best one for your child? Most of the time it isn’t best to focus on location and cost, because if your child falls in love with dance (which many do) y...

                      We did it! We accomplished what we dreamt about, we managed to deliver a magnificent concert with just four weeks in the studio to prepare! And what a concert it was, thanks to all the hard work and perseverance from our beautiful students and the JOKSOD community. We thought it would be a scaled down version, but it really wasn’t and we are so unbelievably proud of everyone. Thank you to the wonde...

Joanne O’Kelly School of Dance presents “Sollemne”     Latin for ‘Celebration, Festival, Triumph and Ceremony’, “Sollemne” promises to be a performance like no other, as it epitomises our excitement to return to the stage and showcases the dedication, resilience and talent of our beautiful students following the most challenging two years. We’re thrilled to be able to bring you this performance that involves our entire school b...

After such a crazy year and so many challenges we are delighted to finally be able to screen the JOKSOD movie of our 2020 concert next week. We were determined that the COVID-19 pandemic was not going to stop us from a performance experience last year. So, we came up with the idea of having our concert dances professionally filmed in the studio. This was a mammoth task to organise with the ongoing capacity restrictions and short timeframe. We could only put the groups together in the last we...