This is TA-DA!
More than performance training.We build performers.We build people.
TA-DA! exists to help people find their voice, develop real skill and grow in confidence through the performing arts. What begins as a class has a way of changing how someone walks into every room after it.
Our story
It started with a dream
It started with a dreamIn 2011, Danielle Steynvaardt opened a small studio in Krugersdorp with one stubborn idea: that performing arts training should develop the person, not just polish the performance.
She had lived both sides of it. The years of training. The nerves before an audition. The waiting, the callbacks, the work that comes after you are cast. The particular courage it takes to stand in front of people and use your voice while everyone watches.
She had also seen how many talented people were never taught how to handle any of that. So TA-DA! was built the way she wished training had been built for her: honest about the industry, generous with the student, and serious about craft without ever making a beginner feel small.
Fifteen years later, that is still the room we run. Students arrive dreaming of stage and screen, or simply because a parent hoped it would help their child come out of their shell. Both belong here, and both leave with technique, confidence and a voice that is genuinely their own.
Meet the founder
Danielle Steynvaardt
Founder | Performer | Educator | Creative | Mentor
Danielle has been in the performing arts since childhood, first as a student, then as a working performer, and for the past fifteen years as the person shaping other performers. She holds a BA in Drama from the University of Pretoria and has performed professionally on stage and on screen, which means the technique taught at TA-DA! comes from doing the work rather than reading about it.
Alongside her performance career she has spent more than a decade developing people. She has led worship since 2016 and is a qualified pastor, and that side of her work shows up in how she teaches: attention to the individual, patience with the nervous, and a genuine interest in who a student is becoming, not only in what they can perform.
Communication, leadership, creative direction and performance are the threads that run through all of it.
What this means for you
You are trained by someone who understands the craft, the industry and the person standing in the middle of it. Someone who can tell you what a casting room actually expects, and who notices when a student needs pushing and when they need holding steady.
Our philosophy
We believe performance changes people.
Very few of our students will spend their lives on a stage. All of them will spend their lives being seen, heard and understood, or not.
Performance training teaches things that are almost impossible to teach directly. How to hold your nerve when the room goes quiet. How to say a difficult thing clearly. How to listen properly, take direction without taking offence, and try again after it did not work the first time.
It teaches discipline, because a script does not learn itself. It teaches collaboration, because nobody performs alone. It teaches creative thinking, because every character, song and scene asks you to imagine something that is not in front of you.
That is why our training holds up long after the last curtain call. The stage is the classroom. Confidence is what students take home.
- Find your voice
- Communicate clearly
- Handle pressure
- Work with others
- Think creatively
- Express yourself
- Take direction
- Build discipline
- Own the room
What makes TA-DA! different
Industry informed training
Everything we teach is taught by people still working in the industry. Students learn what auditions actually ask for, how a set really runs and what professionalism looks like in practice.
Personalised development
Classes stay small on purpose. We learn how each student thinks, where their strengths sit and what they avoid, then build the training around that rather than around a syllabus.
Practical experience
Technique means nothing until it survives an audience. Students rehearse, film, record and perform, because doing the thing is the only way it becomes yours.
Confidence beyond the stage
Oral presentations, interviews, first days, difficult conversations. Parents tell us about these changes long before they tell us about a performance.
Professional preparation
For students aiming at the industry, we build audition material, self tape skills and the working habits that agents and directors expect, and we introduce them when they are genuinely ready.
A place to grow
Encouraged, challenged, supported and seen. Students should feel safe enough to be bad at something new, which is the only way anyone ever gets good at it.
Beyond the classroom
Training that goes beyond the classroom
The skills we teach travel. Theatre, acting, singing, camera work, presenting, public speaking, auditions, communication and creative development all draw on the same core ability: to be present, prepared and clear in front of other people.
We do not simply teach students what to do. We teach them how to show up.
More than one path
You do not have to know what you want to become yet.
Some students walk in certain they want a career in performance. Most do not, and that is completely fine.
There is no single right reason to begin. We meet students where they are and help them find out where they can go.
A message from Danielle
I did not start TA-DA! because the world needed another performing arts school. I started it because I know exactly what it feels like to have a dream you are almost embarrassed to say out loud, and I know how much it changes things when someone takes it seriously, teaches you properly and gives you a place to grow.
I have watched a child who would not say her own name in a circle end up leading a scene. I have watched a teenager walk into an audition steady instead of shaking. Those moments are the reason I still teach.
What I want every student to leave with is not only technique, although we take that very seriously. I want them to leave knowing their voice is worth hearing, and knowing how to use it. That belongs to them long after they leave my studio.
Danielle Steynvaardt
Founder, TA-DA! Training
Three ways to train
Performing Arts Academy
Ever wanted to work in the industry, or step onto a stage as a performer? Weekly acting, singing and worship training classes for ages 6 to adult, taught in small groups by working performers.
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03 / BusinessStagecraft for Business
Performance skills for business. Workshops for entrepreneurs and teams, one-on-one coaching before the moments that matter, and TA-DA! Stagecraft Studio for your business videos. Own the room. Own the screen.
Your story starts here.
Whether you are six or forty six, certain or curious, there is a place to begin. Have a look at how we train, then come and talk to us.
