Knightswood Secondary had a special visit from the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland today, the Rt Revd Dr Derek Browning. He enjoyed meeting many of the young people and staff of the mainstream school before coming down to the Dance School for a demonstration of current work by some of our dancers and S5 and S6 musical theatre.

*Open Day 2017* Want to know more about the courses at The Dance School School of Scotland? Then come and join us on Saturday 4th November and you will! Musical Theatre - 10:00am Dance - 2:00pm No need to book - simply turn up on the day.

Wishing our graduate Amy McEntee the very best of luck as she makes her professional debut tonight right here in her home town of Glasgow! She will be performing with Scottish Ballet at the Theatre Royal in their Stravinsky double bill. Amy graduated in 2014 and went on to study at Central School of Ballet​. We are so proud of her - chukkas Amy! Photos: Andy Ross

As the cold nights are starting to draw in, why not revisit sunny June with the new highlights video of our summer dance showcase? https://youtu.be/Lk6duajXNOQ

Our musical theatre students enjoyed a workshop yesterday afternoon with Martin Donaghy, who is currently appearing in 'Faithful Ruslan' at the Citizens Theatre and also happens to be a graduate of ours! Martin graduated in 2011 and went on to train on the BA Acting course at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Photos by Tri.

Education Scotland have added a video of our Scottish Learning Festival @ SECC performance to their YouTube channel. Here's the link to the full 21 and a half minutes. Enjoy!

More fab photos from our appearance at the Scottish Learning Festival @ SECC a week ago! If you know someone interested in finding out more about either our dance or musical theatre courses, we are holding an open day at the school on Saturday 4th November. 10:00am - Musical Theatre 2:00pm - Dance No need to book - simply come along on the day!

"...if anything was necessary to demonstrate what a precious resource we have in our country... of the capability of our young people and the strength and capacity that they can deliver, it was the performance from the national Dance School of Scotland this morning." John Swinney (Deputy First Minister), Scottish Learning Festival 2017 We were proud to open the Scottish Learning Festival @ SECC this morning, where John Swinney was part of the audience and mentioned our performance in his opening keynote address.

If you missed the live stream of our students' performance at Scottish Learning Festival @ SECC earlier, you can catch it here. They performed to 600 delegates in the Lomond Suite (including John Swinney, Deputy First Minister of Scotland and the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills) and it was live streamed to other halls across the centre. The musical theatre students are on at 13m 48s and the dancers at 32m 05s. https://youtu.be/DYeeMIcqptY?t=13m48s

Our students performed brilliantly at the Scottish Learning Festival @ SECC this morning. You can catch their performance by scrolling backwards in this live stream; our musical theatre students were the first on stage as people were entering The Lomond Suite and the dancers were on after the short introduction. https://youtu.be/DYeeMIcqptY?t=13m48s

Some of our dance and musical theatre students are performing for delegates at the Scottish Learning Festival for Education Scotland tomorrow at The SEC. If rehearsals are anything to go by they are in for a real treat!

You may have seen our students perform Julian Moss' 'The Rite of Spring' (in collaboration with St Mary's Music School) in our showcase this summer at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall . Here our graduate Christopher Harrison talks about his role in Scottish Ballet's production (choreography by Christopher Hampson), which goes on tour next month.