History of Jager's Dance

About us

Don’t just do it, Do it right

It all started at the beginning of 1999 when I relocated from the Netherlands to The United Kingdom. I went to live with my dance partner in Royton (Oldham) to continue my competitive dance career, but the ultimate and long-term plan was to set up a Premier Dance & Events venue around Manchester.

The first 5 years of the business was mostly taken up by actively dancing in competitions, travelling around the world to continue to learn and perfect my own dancing skills. During this time my plan was to also travel around the country to visit various schools and businesses to learn what was required to have the premier dance & events venue. To fund our own dancing career, I produced and sold CD’s, I designed, marketed, and sold dance shoes and eventually set up my own dance shoe company, Topline Dance Shoes Ltd.

During 2004, I commenced coaching my very first students at ‘Jagers Dance’ at our first location, ‘The Pennine Lounge’ in Oldham. Within 12 months Jagers Dance was now teaching in 10 different locations across Greater Manchester, Eccles, Blakeley, Rochdale, Uppermill, Oldham, Stockport, Wilmslow, Radcliffe, Whitefield, & Huddersfield.

The business was growing from strength to strength, and we realised we needed our own venue to expand further. Finally in 2012 a venue came available. Finding a venue to provide us with all our requirements was not an easy task!

In September 2012 after 4 long months of renovations we opened our Premier Dance & Events venue within Earl Mill in Oldham.

My dream was to not only create a dance studio for all ages, all abilities and all styles but to also create an events venue where I could share my other love for catering and hosting parties and events.

To date we have hosted events for some of the largest companies in the North West. We have also hosted team building days for the NHS, BBC & BDO Stoy Hayward. We have run Oscars Evenings, Gala Dinners, Weddings, Birthday Parties, Christenings and our own special events for our dance school too.

Our motto is: Don’t Just Do It, Do It Right!

Ronald Jager
Managing Director & Founder