TPD Young Artists
Collaborate Create Perform
Founded in 2018 with the support of Company Wayne McGregor, TPD Young Artists are the youth company of Thomas Page Dances. TPD YA is made up of dance artists aged 12 - 18 years old from Oxfordshire.
Every week we collaborate to create contemporary dance works, rehearsing these works to be ready for performances at various festivals and venues across Oxfordshire. At the end of the Summer term we present our work in a showcase at our home theatre, Arts at The Old Fire Station.
For more information and audition details please contact: education@thomaspagedances.org
See what we get up to on Instagram: @TPDYoungArtists
TPD Young Artists 2024-25
TPD Young Artists 2023-24
Alumni
Our Alumni have gone on to study at amazing institutions for Performing Arts such as Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Italia Conti, Trinity Laban, Chichester University, Goldsmiths University and Central School of Ballet.
Beyond dance, some students decide to take different progression pathways (and that’s okay!) taking their studies further in different subjects at incredible higher education institutions such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Bournemouth University, Sussex University, and The University of East Anglia.
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Florence
2025 Graduate
Currently at Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
How would you describe your time with TPD YA?
“TPDYA has the most welcoming environment and has given me the opportunity to create original pieces in a judgement free zone.”
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Grace
2024 Graduate
Currently at university studying Media Production
How would you describe your time with TPD YA?
“Best five years ever. The collaborations and creating a family have been my fave moments.”
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Anna
2020 Graudate
Currently working professionally in a full time marketing role.
How would you describe your time with TPD YA?
"I joined TPD YA when it first started. Tom was an incredible, down to earth teacher and I used to love our Sunday sessions! It’s always been such a lovely, talented group of individuals.”
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Isabel
2019 Graduate
Currently reading English Literature at The University of Oxford
How would you describe your time with TPD YA?
“Being a part of TPD YA was nothing short of magical! As an artistic collective, it offers so much more than just the opportunity to dance - it's a space in which the participants are pushed to consider what movement as a medium can do, how it can tell stories, how it might enable us to think about the world in different ways. Tom's teaching has so much of the mind in it as well, beyond what just the body can do. That was massive for me - I don't have a typical dancer's body, and never felt fully at home in a studio until I encountered TPD YA. But Tom, alongside my incredibly talented cohort, showed me it was my creativity that made me a dancer, not what I looked like or how flexible I was. By encouraging me to harness my understanding of dance as an art form, they empowered me as an individual.”
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Alex
2018 Graduate
Currently working professionally as an actor and writer, working as a freelancer with various companies as well as staging his own work.
How would you describe your time with TPD YA?
“A wonderfully open and explorative space, where I was able to broaden my artistic horizons and develop my movement in a space free of judgement. Meaning through movement, specificity and expanding the possibilities of my body. Favourite learning experience was working with text and discovering how powerful a storytelling tool that non-verbal expression can be.”