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WHY TADA?
All-Styles Focus & Versatility
TADA celebrates and supports all styles of dance — from hip-hop to contemporary, afro, jazz, latin and more — so teachers aren’t limited to a narrow syllabus but can grow across genres. This helps you remain relevant and adaptable in today’s diverse dance world.
Competition & Showcase Opportunities
TADA runs national competitions and festivals where your students can perform and compete — useful for student motivation and teacher reputation building.
Structured Progression
TADA helps teachers build long-term career growth pathways through structured syllabi, assessment frameworks and opportunities to develop expertise beyond entry-level teaching.
Teacher Training &
Ready-to-Use Syllabi
TADA provides structured teacher training courses and syllabi, giving teachers practical, industry-aligned content they can use in classes right away — saving prep time and enhancing quality.
Community & Network
Joining TADA connects you with other committed teachers and professionals across South Africa, offering mentorship, collaboration and referral opportunities.
Modern, Teacher-First Approach
TADA is built by teachers, for teachers. The association understands the realities of running classes today—mixed abilities, multiple styles, busy schedules—and offers flexible, relevant systems that work in real studios, not outdated models.
Professional Development
Being part of TADA connects you to a community where you can continue learning and refine your craft — not just through syllabi but through workshops, shared resources, and ongoing support.
Supports Career Credibility
Being associated with a recognised dance teacher association boosts your credibility in the industry and gives parents and students confidence in your professional standing.
Clear Benefits for Parents & Pupils
Being qualified through TADA gives parents confidence that their children are being trained safely, progressively, and professionally.For pupils, it means structured growth, achievable milestones, performance opportunities, and recognition for their hard work—keeping them motivated, inspired, and proud of their progress.
Our unique 11 style dance syllabus
We believe that all dance helps improve all dance. Each style brings a new understanding of how to move your body and gives a new texture to the style danced - each element you learn helps improve the next style the dancer pursues. As a teacher, the more knowledge you have of a variety of styles, the better teacher you will become.
Combining the high energy dance styles to develop speed, control and some oomph behind their movements.
These styles are:
Megadance - this is a high energy, fast moving style that requires speed and strength with the elegance of control and effortlessness.
Hip Hop - using current and trending hip hop moves, we are wanting to build a solid body rhythm and style with this style.
Afro Fusion - bringing the dancer into our proudly South African heritage, we explore the afro styles of Pantsula, Kwaito, Amapiano and more.
X-Treme Dance Styles
These internationally recognised partner dance styles are taught in a solo format, allowing each dancer to fully develop strong technique, musicality, and performance quality while learning the authentic foundations of these vibrant dance forms.
Latin styles include:
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Cha Cha Cha
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Samba
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Rumba
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Paso Doble
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Jive
Solo Latin
These styles focus on building strong foundations in body awareness, technique, extension, and expressive storytelling, encouraging dancers to move with confidence, control, and emotional connection.
Styles include:
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Contemporary
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Jazz
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Lyrical
Classic Dance Styles
Street Style Syllabus
With the 3 genres above being the core of our training, as an additional bonus, we also offer a street style syllabus which can be done to compliment your TADA Teacher Training or done as a stand alone course.
This syllabus teaches all the street styles in more depth.
Street Styles
With the popularity of 'hip hop' dancing all over the world, we wanted to create a syllabus that teaches the foundations of each style that makes up hip hop as a style. This further educates the teacher in the history of where each hip hop style and move comes from, to further understand how to use it in today's routines for their pupils.
The different styles taught are:
Afro Beats
Popping
Locking
Animation
Hip Hop Foundation
Krumping
Breakdance