[citation needed] Founded by the dance teacher Pauline Bush in Nottingham in 1914,[1] and later with branches in Romford, Essex and London; it was bombed out during the Second World War and then moved to a former boys' school East Grinstead.

[citation needed] After Pauline Bush's death, the school was run by her daughter Noreen and her husband Victor Leopold.

[citation needed] In 1974, Susan Passmore and Raymond Bishop produced the annual July performance 'Time Steps' in celebration of the school's Diamond Jubilee in the Adeline Genee Theatre.

[citation needed] The 330-seat theatre opened in 1967 on land gifted by the school with a performance of Coppelia.

[citation needed] The Theatre was demolished by the owners of the residential care home that now operates in Charters Towers and the grounds of the old school.