Our Mission

Freestyle dances are for your enjoyment and indulgence of the wonder that is dancing - dancing quite literally 'moves the soul'.

The next Freestyle is highlighted on the home page, and the events listing shows all future classes and Freestyles.

At each event there is a mixture of music styles conjured up by the DJs, ranging from popular chart music, to moody numbers, to golden oldies. Many Freestyles have separate rooms where Blues, West Coast Swing and other musical themes are for those who prefer a particular style all evening.

Freelance Friday Freestyles are always this blend of styles, typically centred around Modern Jive style dancing. In addition, there are

Illumination Dance Freestyles which offer the only musicality-based freestyle in the east of England and centre around a more expressive, arguably slower paced style of music - suited to Smooth Modern Jive, West Coast Swing, Tango and Blues. 

Elements Freestyles which offer the only 3 rooms & 4 Styles in the area, each room focused on a particular style - Smooth Modern Jive, West Coast Swing, Blues and a mix of expressive music.

Freestyles are commonly from 8pm until 12pm (Midnight) but some events finish later.

We offer a two-tear pricing system at all our freestyles with a discounted price before 9pm off our normal door price.

DanceXcess offers Free hot drinks and at all venues which doesn't operate a licensed bar we also have flavoured water on sale, 

At some of our venues we have a licensed bar, check on the event page to confirm.

Parking is always available either on site, or readily available close by. Check the Freestyle event or venue page for more details, and for directions.

Core to the club's philosophy is that to enjoy the wonder that is modern dance, both freestyle dances and class nights are key. To learn how to dance, how not to dance and then to enjoy your dance in a friendly, safe and social environment.

Whether you are an experienced dancer looking for further tuition in moves, styling or musicality, or a complete beginner with 'two left feet' - all are welcome.

No partner needed, although this is a partner dance, the idea is to move people on but if you have a partner and want to stick together this is also ok.

Choose your nearest venue for class nights, St Ives, Harlow, and progress from beginner to intermediate and beyond. Then enjoy your new found dance abilities at any of the regular freestyle dances (Social nights out) normally at weekends.

Freestyle Dances are held in Modern Jive, and mixed-styles of Smooth jive, West coast Swing, Blues & Expressive, allowing you to explore the various styles to enhance your dancing, or to choose your preferred style.

Whatever your dance ability, come along to a class night and the Crew & teachers will help you realise your desire to dance, or to progress your dance.

Illumination Dance runs Class nights, Freestyles, Workshops, Tea dances and social nights out at various venues in the UK and runs the only 3 room, 5 style with a dedicated West Coast Swing room freestyle in the area (ELEMENTS), we also run the only musicality-based freestyle in the east of England (Illumination Dance) for those that like expressive music & dancing, with other venues in, North London, Milton 'Keynes & Leicester areas.

Illumination Dance, at all our venues we, offers FREE Tea & Coffee all night, we don't normally have a licensed bar at our events so you can BYO drinks. However on our 3 main, 3 room events (Glitz & Glamour, Masked Ball & New years Eve Eve) we do run a licensed Cafe bar. Plus  we offer a food feast which starts at around10.30pm to give the dancers a break and social catch up at the same time we play Expressive music for around 20mins for the more adventurous dancers. On some freestyles we have a 2nd room which plays the more tempered music (Blues, Tango, Expressive) to complement our main room of (Modern Jive, up-tempo music)