Diverse Performing Arts School

03/09/2024

Evening Academy Classes and After School activity classes

Get in touch for your free trial and to get a full list of all our programs at NORD Anglia School Dubai 🎭 🎤 💃

03/09/2024

Our lovely DIVERSE graduate is returning to Cats the musical for a 2nd time playing the role of Demeter .

Alice has most recently just finished a contract playing ensemble in the musical production of The Bodyguard. Alice’s other theatre credits include Fame the musical as dance captain, cover Iris 🩰 Prior to this she was in Cats the musical as Swing playing multiple roles - Bombalurina/Demeter/Tantomile/Jennyanydots to name but a few.

graduated from Diverse and gained her BA honours degree in Musical Theatre it’s been exciting to follow her journey in musical theatre.

Your Diverse Fam are extremely proud of you and thank you for always keeping in touch, we love our little Alice updates 🙏❤️

If you have some grad news you would like us to share, please get in touch as we would love to share the news with our families.

03/09/2024

When Sophie joined us in 2022 she very quickly became a valued member of the Diverse team. We have watched her blossom into a beautiful and versatile dancer and her rapid progress is testament to her hard work, dedication and passion for dance. We are delighted to have been able to guide and support Sophie in her training and applications, this September she will begin her full-time ballet training at The Polish National Ballet School. Ballet dancers with the potential for a professional career begin their vocational training at a much younger age than commercial or musical theatre performers and so, whilst we are sad to say goodbye this is an important step for Sophie’s career and a truly fantastic achievement to have reached the incredibly high standard required to be accepted.

Sophie is so eager to learn, giving 110% in all of her classes and could always be found sneaking into an empty studio to practice her turns or improvise a new contemporary routine alongside being sure to have worked on her corrections before the next class or rehearsal. She pushes herself to try new styles and so she has become a well-rounded dancer that applies her technical knowledge in every genre be it ballet, contemporary or jazz funk. Sophie excelled as part of our competition team and in the 2024 GDO finals placed 3rd in the world for both her classical and neo classical solos.

She has an infectious smile and giggle that will be greatly missed at Diverse and we will always keep a space at the barre for her when she comes to visit!

03/09/2024

En quickly became a much loved member of our Diverse family, growing from a shy and quiet member of class to the quirky, cheerful girl we are all going to miss! En has progressed so much over the last 3 years; not only in terms of her technical ability but also in her confidence, performance style and theatrical knowledge. As a result of her training and her own hard work at home, she has been accepted for full time training at the Legat Dance Academy in the UK. Ballet dancers with the potential for a professional career begin their vocational training at a much younger age than commercial or musical theatre performers and so, whilst we are sad to say goodbye this is an important step for En’s career and a truly fantastic achievement to have reached the incredibly high standard required to be accepted.

It is impossible to think about En without smiling - always full of questions and so keen to progress in her dancing. In the beginning, she would frequently doubt her own ability and then surprise herself with the choreography she was capable of achieving or her knowledge of dance vocabulary. We love how she surprised us by being such a talented comm pop dancer too! A true joy to have in class.

En is so passionate about ballet and dance and we are delighted that she was a part of our competition team, representing Diverse at the highest standard. We are going to miss her terribly but are so excited to follow her journey and see where her talent and commitment takes her!

02/09/2024

The Diverse Fam wish to say a huge GOOD LUCK to our wonderful student Chloe, as she starts her first day at the prestigious ArtsEd in London. Chloe has been training with Diverse for over 7 years and it’s been a pleasure to watch her grow into the wonderful young performer.

It’s fair to say there will be a large Chloe shaped hole in all of our hearts. Your unwavering positive attitude and huge, loud (sometimes too loud) and bubbly personality will be missed by all our students and teachers.
We are so proud of everything you have achieved and can’t wait to hear all about your future training and successes.

Musical Theatre will not be the same without Chloe. Firstly, who will help throw Cal around the choreography numbers? We will never again say “why can we only hear Chloe Boyle singing in the ensemble numbers, can we all match her vocal energy please” 😂 who will we be able to use as inspiration for Sisi, when we need her to ‘channel her inner Chloe voice!’ 🎤
You’re a kind and funny, genuine and humble inspiration to the students. However please don’t forget to… open your mouth when singing !!! 😜

We will always remember Chloe in Mamma Mia alongside Z**i and Cushla, what a superb trio. We also loved her phenomenal ‘Sisters’ duet with her equally talented little sis Annika and of course her all singing and dancing role as Marty in Grease the Musical at Dubai Opera.

Please come and visit us Chlo and tell us all about your Arts Ed journey, we can’t wait to hear all about it?
Chloe you are a lovely kind young lady and an extremely talented and committed performer with a very bright future in musical theatre. 🎭 The West End is waiting for you 🎤 💃

02/09/2024

All of us at Diverse want to say a huge GOOD LUCK to our wonderful student and Queen of Dad jokes, Lauren!! Lauren is about to go and further her performing arts journey at the world famous Marymount Manhattan Collage in the USA!
She has played many roles over the years with us but how could we not mention her show stopping performance as Rosie the rapping Granny! We also thoroughly enjoyed her dizzy portrayal of Jan in our Grease production at Dubai Opera.

We know you will always work hard and accomplish great things. We can’t wait to see where this journey takes you! Keep in touch and a huge hug from your Diverse Fam ! ❤️
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31/08/2024

Meet our fantastic team!

We at Diverse pride ourselves in hiring the best and most experienced staff, giving our students first class training.

Not only has our phenomenal team grown again this year. We have some super exciting news to share with you all too…

We would like to introduce to you our newly appointed vice principal, and head of BTEC. The wonderful Matt Firth. ❤️

We also have some wonderful new staff joining us, to help expand our already fantastic team…

• The lovely Sophie Greenstreet-Carter who will be supporting Miss Lara with head of Ballet.
• Our very own home grown talent, Emily Savory who trained with us for over 12 years before leaving to university. We are absolutely delighted to have her back with us again
• Olivia Cloud who is here to support and grow our ever expanding MT team
• Rachel Cahill who will be a wonderful support for both our dance and MT team

We are delighted to have you all join us, and we look forward to a great first week and year ahead!

On top of this wonderful lot, we have an amazing admin team, without who’s hard work and dedication nothing at our studios would be possible!

Thank you to every single one of you!

If you want to read more about our fantastic team, please visit our ‘meet the team’ page on our website.

We look forward to another superb year ahead, of classes, shows, competitions, exams and much more.

30/08/2024

Lara has been a huge part of the Diverse fam since she was a teeny tiny 6 year old. 12 whole years in our studios!
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What can we say about Lara? Lara is one of kind. Unique, funny, FULL OUT, sweet and sassy.
Lara is a triple threat performer who excels in dance, drama and singing. Her specialty is playing larger than life, vibrant roles like the hilarious Tania in ‘Mamma Mia’ or evil Miss Trunchbull in ‘Matilda’ last year.

Lara and her Diverse brother Keir were known for their iconic, double act presenting skills. Show comparing at multiple Diverse productions. A tradition which started with Lara who always presented our show numbers in style. Our fave will always be them both rapping to open the show. A hilarious way to showcase our sponsors! So, when her last show fell on her 18th birthday, Keir decided to get the whole audience up to sing happy birthday 🥹 At the end, Keir spoke about how we all feel about our Lara. He said ~ “she lights up every room she enters with her positive vibes and infectious energy”. 🥹 Keir’s words were perfectly put, and the only thing we could add to this, is that she lights up every room AND every stage 💫✨

Lara’s infectious, positive energy, brilliant sense of humour and versatile talent, will be missed by all students and teachers at Diverse ❤️‍🩹

What ever she decides to turn her hand to, it’s safe to say that this young lady has a very bright future ahead of her!

Lara will be pursuing a musical theatre degree at Urdang London, and we can’t wait to come and watch you shine on stage or TV in London. Urdang are extremely lucky to have our girl Lara! We’ll miss you so much! ❤️

30/08/2024

Ernestine. Our little Frenchy 🇫🇷 (also known as Ernie) Ernie got her nick name from Scott in her MT class 8yrs ago. It all started when she needed a nickname for the roll call in ‘Nicest kids in town’ when the students performed Hairspray, and now, it’s stuck for life!

Ernie attended classes with us for 8yrs and what journey! She originally joined as a once a week, cute little hip-hop kid. But now she graduates an extremely versatile, multi skilled performer, in all styles of dance and theatre.
Ernie has always had that special star quality that you cannot teach💫
She has just always understood how to feel and flow through every movement with flair, style and class✨
On the competition circuit Ernie always rocked the stage, coming away with crazy scores ~ 96 & 97/100!

You may remember Ernie as the over confident ‘Cha Cha’ in Grease a few years ago in our production of Grease the musical or recently in this year’s Dubai Opera show as the ‘front centre’ girl selling it big time in MJ, or the sassy Jazz Funk number with the iconic red gloves!

We are so excited for Errrrrrrnestine (read in a French accent) to be completing her training at Urdang, gaining a Musical Theatre Degree.
London… you better watch out for this little sassy queen!
👑 ❤️
fj



Stay tuned for more graduate news 👀

22/08/2024

WHY THE DIVERSE BTEC?​

Our elite BTEC course is auditioned for entry.

In partnership with Pearson Education International, we provide a fully bespoke, KHDA approved, BTEC course which includes first class performing arts training, alongside academic studies​

This hugely successful learning model enables students to further their performing arts training whilst also continuing their academic studies​
We offer a BTEC level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing Arts Practice​

The equivalent to 3 A-levels worth up to 168 UCAS points​​​

This full-time, high level college experience based on a UK study programme​ is a pathway for school leavers who are post GCSE and interested in a career in dance and musical theatre, professional performance and the wider context of the dance industry including business​ for the performing arts​

A full time, 2-year educational programme (Over 20 hours per week) inc. BTEC, work experience, tutorials and enrichment activities​​

Learning, training & performing with professional teachers & artists within purpose-built studios in a professional Performing Arts environment​

A true and unique vocational learning experience
The Diverse BTEC is different from any other BTEC in the region. Alongside the BTEC qualification, Diverse are providing full-time vocational training, giving the students the full, college level, training experience. Helping to make the transition from BTEC to a vocational degree course, seamless

If you have completed your GCSEs then what you waiting for join our new Sept 2024 cohort. Get in touch to audition for our elite course.

20/08/2024

Another exciting DIVERSE success story with one of our graduates being cast in the musical production of The Bodyguard.

theatre credits include Cats the musical playing Demeter and Swing and Fame as dance captain and cover Iris ❤️

graduated from Diverse and gained her BA honours degree in Musical Theatre it’s been exciting to follow her journey in musical theatre.

If you have some grad news you would like us to share, please get in touch as we would love to share the news with our families.

Your Diverse Fam are extremely proud of you and thank you for always keeping in touch, we love our little Alice updates 🙏❤️

18/08/2024

Why should you train

We are the only school in the region with an extensive Alumni of west end and blockbuster movie/TV success stories. Check out just a few of our graduate successful movie and professional west end musical credits.

For those performers wanting to peruse a professional career in MT and dance, we have level 3 BTEC in performing arts. This full time course is equivalent to 3 A levels.

Another fun fact - Did you know diverse have 💯 percent college success entry for the most established degree and university courses in theatre. 🎭

18/08/2024

Singing, dance and drama specialists

Diverse produce 3 annual productions per year and ALL children 5yrs+ perform in at least one production per year. See pics of our end of year production

17/08/2024

So excited to perform this hip hop number 2025 in London. We won best group and subsequent we were asked to perform this piece at 🖤💚

Congratulations to all our dancers and huge thank you 🙏

16/08/2024

A few more show pics from our Dubai Opera production D1VER5E 2024.

Get in touch for your free trial in Dance Fusion, Musical Theatre, Ballet, Drama, Contemporary, Tap, Modern, Acro, Screen Acting or Singing we have everything you need here at Diverse for your little superstar age 3yrs - 18yrs old with beginner and advanced levels in ALL styles on dance, singing and drama.

Get in touch
📧 [email protected]

15/08/2024

Boys are you interested in dance, singing or drama?

If so…. it’s time to join the biggest and most established performing arts school in the UAE and train with our boys. We have over 50 young lads training with us currently

With many of our graduate boys performing in London’s west end and performing worldwide in professional musicals : Mamma Mia, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Wizard of Oz, Cats, Guys and Dolls, Half a sixpence, Aladdin, Sunset Boulevard to name but a few.

With some of our graduate male performers performing in blockbuster movies Barbie, Wonka and the hit TV show the masked singer.

We have a huge faculty of male dance, singing and drama reachers, who have all had a professional dance and musical theatre career as professionals and creatives. What you waiting for lads, get in touch NOW!

15/08/2024

What’s your favourite performing arts style? Don’t worry we have it covered at DIVERSE.

We have multiple styles of dance, singing and drama. Check out some of our highlights from our most recent 15yr anniversary production D1VER5E

Get in touch NOW to enrol your child for a free trail.

📧 [email protected]

14/08/2024

Do you want to learn how to jump and do a firebird like this?

‼️JOIN DUBAI’S LEADING PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL‼️

Registrations are open, for classes commencing Sept 2024. Get in touch with our admissions team to reserve your spot.

2 main locations in Dubai…Al Quoz 3 and Hessa Street.

📧 Email - [email protected]

20/07/2024

We are still in shock that was awarded top school at our 2nd competition final EVER. Thanks so much to for organising a superb competition. It was an experience of lifetime that we will never forget.

Our students/school were awarded the most medals in the whole completion to win this award, competing with 36 countries from age 5yrs - 29rs old. Not only did we win TOP school. The UAE were awarded winning country 🇦🇪 with 293 points/Diverse won 284 points for our country. 🇦🇪

DIVERSE MEDAL TALLY

🥇X20 (🌍World Champion titles)
🥈X13
🥉X6

Thanks to all our amazing choreographers, creatives and teaching faculty/team. Without their amazing vision and hard work, none of this would be possible. We are so grateful for every single one of you ❤️🏆

20/07/2024

🌍 World Champions 🏆
20 x Gold titles

MINI

🥇Scooby Doo Papa : Duo/Trio Acro
🥇Body Jam Small : Group Acro
🥇Spice World : Small Group Tap

JUNIOR

🥇 Vamp : Tap Solo
🥇Toxic Elvis : Duo/Trio Tap
🥇Naughty : Duo/Trio Musical Theatre
🥇Wild Party : Small Group Tap
🥇Mamma Says : Small Group Musical Theatre
🥇Telephone : Small Group Jazz
🥇Sissy That Walk : Small Group Commercial
🥇Transformation : Small Group Lyrical

INTERMEDIATE

🥇Game of Survival : Showdance Solo
🥇Cover Is Not the Book : Duo/Trio MT
🥇Burn Up The Dance : Duo/Trio Commercial
🥇Life’s A Drag : Small Group Commercial
🥇Lady Powers : Small Group Showdance
🥇Do Your Thing : Small Group Tap
🥇Missy Elliot : Large Group Commercial
🥇Medusa : Large Group Showdance
🥇Play That Funky Music : Large Group Tap

DIVERSE MEDAL TALLY

🥇X20
🥈X13
🥉X6

🥇Best and highest scoring dance school
🥇Highest scoring country 🇦🇪

Thank you to all our wonderful inspiring teachers for their support, creative choreography and dedication. A huge congratulations to all our talented students, you all killed it ⭐️ 💫 🔥

17/07/2024

GDO

🥇🌍Best and highest scoring school - DIVERSE 🎉

🥇🌍Highest scoring country 🇦🇪(293 points/284 points by DIVERSE )

MEDAL TALLY

🥇X20 🌍 champions
🥈X13
🥉X6

UPPER DIVISION

🥉What Ya Waiting For : Showdance Solo
4th Live Like Legends : Jazz Solo

MAIN DIVISION

MINI

🥇Scooby Doo Papa : Duo/Trio Acro
🥇Body Jam Small : Group Acro
🥇Spice World : Small Group Tap

🥈Double Bubble Duchess : MT Solo .koussa

5th Parasol Polka : Duo/Trio Ballet
5th Stop Time Ballet : Duo/Trio Ballet

JUNIOR

🥇 Vamp : Tap Solo
🥇Toxic Elvis : Duo/Trio Tap
🥇Naughty : Duo/Trio Musical Theatre
🥇Wild Party : Small Group Tap
🥇Mamma Says : Small Group Musical Theatre
🥇Telephone : Small Group Jazz
🥇Sissy That Walk : Small Group Commercial
🥇Transformation : Small Group Lyrical
🥈Show Off : MT Solo
🥈Kitri Act 1 : Ballet Rep Solo
🥈After Class : Neoclassical .mosanya
🥈Singing In The Rain : Duo/Trio Tap
🥈Diamonds Are A Girls Bestfriend : Duo/Trio MT
🥈Disco : Duo/ Trio Showdance
🥈Problem : Small Group Tap
🥈Shine On You : Small Group Lyrical

🥉Extraordinary : MT Solo
🥉Charlies Angels :Duo/Trio Commercial

4th Sitting Down Is Stupid : Tap Solo
4th Party Sisters : Duo/Trio Commercial
4th Looney Tunes : Duo/Trio Acro
4th Fix You Duo/Trio Lyrical
5th Highly Strung : Neoclassical
5th Pound The Alarm : Commercial Solo
5th Sunny Sympathy - small group ballet

INTERMEDIATE

🥇Game of Survival : Showdance Solo
🥇Cover Is Not the Book : Duo/Trio MT
🥇Burn Up The Dance : Duo/Trio Commercial
🥇Life’s A Drag : Small Group Commercial
🥇Lady Powers : Small Group Showdance
🥇Do Your Thing : Small Group Tap
🥇Missy Elliot : Large Group Commercial
🥇Medusa : Large Group Showdance
🥇Play That Funky Music : Large Group Tap

🥈Younce : Tap Solo .graceb
🥈Sincerely Me : Duo/Trio MT
🥈Half Light : Small Group Lyrical
🥈D.V.R.S Army : Large Group Commercial

🥉Anything Goes : MT Solo
🥉Travelers : Duo/Trio Acro
🥉Candystore : Duo/ Trio Tap

4th Level Up : Commercial Solo
4th Silde Some Oil : MT Solo
4th To Be Loved : Showdance solo
5th Maria : Showdance Solo

26/06/2024

Diverse Photography - As a reminder, we will only be submitting children for castings who have professional pictures, if you wish to be considered for children’s agency work please send your professional picture for us to submit to our clients through Diverse Entertainment. You can see our events and TV work on our instagram for bookings drop an email to [email protected]

26/06/2024

26/06/2024

Our beautiful and talented grad has gone and secured another amazing event dancing for for this outstanding event

This talented grad just blows our mind, she has just recovered from an injury and foot operation and now she is back doing what she was born to do, dance and perform.

most recently danced for the iconic on his final tour, graced our TV screens with the TV show and performed in Cabaret with some more exciting news coming soon! Watch this space 👀

Proud of you ❤️

24/06/2024

Another double DIVERSE success story with 2 of our ex-students being cast in the original cast of . We are sooooo excited to watch in this vibrant and modern musical

graduated with Diverse and then furthered his training . After graduating Callum’s theatre and movie credits include , Guys and Dolls where Callum made his leading man debut in London’s West End and then Half a sixpence the musical. WOW what a superb career for this talented young man. He is just not going to stop working ❤️

more recently graduated from and has just finished performing in and the Saudi Games as a commercial dancer. You are killing your first year of employment already Tash! ❤️

Your Diverse Fam are extremely proud of you both and CANNOT WAIT to come and support you and watch you both shine on stage.

22/06/2024

How we will miss these gorgeous grads! Thanks so much for our lovely gifts and flowers. We loved all your cards, and we definitely didn’t cry 😭
You are all so special and talented and it was a pleasure to watch every single one of you shine on stage in our latest production it certainly won’t be the last time we will see some of you kill it on stage, as many of you are destined for a successful career in performing arts. For those who are following this career path. Those of you grads who are moving onto normal job/ normal Unis 😂 we know you will carry the life lessons from our studio with you forever too.
We truly cannot wait to follow your journey into the future❤️ We miss you already ! 🥰

31/05/2024

Check out our summer camp dates for this summer. Save your spot and keep those kids busy, learning valuable performing arts skills over the summer break 🎭 ☀️ 🎤 💃

30/05/2024

Check out these kids on Lovin Dubai ❤️

30/05/2024

Get your tickets via the below private link, for our 15th anniversary show - D1ver5e at Dubai Opera on Sunday, June 16th, 2pm & 7pm

D1VER5E 16 Jun 2024 Join us for a dazzling celebration of talent, and mind-blowing entertainment as Diverse Performing Arts Centre proudly presents its 15-year anniversary show at Dubai Opera! This promises to be a spectacular journey through the realms of music, dance, and drama, showcasing the inc...

27/05/2024

D1VER5E 2024 tickets are on sale 🎟️ it’s gonna be an extremely special production, not to be missed. Celebrating 16yrs of DIVERSE with our 15th annual production 🎭 🎤 💃

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our extremely supportive sponsors…





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