Tap

• We offer ComDance Tapping examinations from Pre 1 to Grade 9 Tap. This is a revised syllabus which focuses on both traditional tap and more new age street styles of tap.

• Dorothy Gladstone is a stage exam, which is optional after Grade 5 Tap. This exam requires the students to perform a 2 Tap Solos. These exams have a different criteria than regular classroom exams, eg: costuming, staging, make up, stage presence and expression. Students can request to take these exams but it will be up to the discretion of the teacher to make the professional opinion if they decide to send them for this exam. Once the student has attained their Grade 6 Tap examination, they can not go back and sit their Dorothy Gladstone Exam.
• Teacher Training is offered in ComDance Tapping after the completion of either Grade 9 Tap or Martin Rubinstein Tapping Exam. Once Teachers Certificate is attained, a student can not go back and sit their Martin Rubinstein Tapping Exam.
• Teachers Certificate. Minimum required age is 17. This exam studies the syllabus from Pre Tap 1 to Grade 5 Tap. It qualifies the candidates to teach the studied grades. The focus is on teaching skills, set work knowledge, theory of music. It is an oral and physical examination which is set by each individual examiner.
• Teachers Diploma. Minimum required age is 20. This exam studies the syllabus from Pre Tap 1 to Grade 9 Tap. It qualifies the candidates to teach the studied grades. The focus is on teaching skills, set work knowledge, theory of music. It is an oral and physical examination which is set by each individual examiner.