Plymouth Nostalgia | Dance Academy was one of the best-known nightclubs

8 November 2026

For years, the Dance Academy was one of the best-known nightclubs on Union Street.

Based in the old Palace Theatre, it welcomed a new generation through the doors of a building that once entertained audiences in a very different way. The music, the queues and the late nights became part of Plymouth’s clubbing story, and for many people, the name still brings it all flooding back.

Photographs © Wayne Perry / Plymouth Post