INTRO TO DANCE
This class consists of a variety of activities to develop the young child’s concentration and love of music. It is designed to teach young ones the fundamentals of dancing, including discipline, movement, rhythm, and vocabulary. Children will be exposed to group dynamics which will prepare them for performing with teams in the future.
Tap/Jazz
Our Tap/Jazz combo classes for 5-7 year olds offer the best of both worlds for those dancers too old for the intro to dance class, but who have not decided what discipline of dance they would most like to pursue.
BALLET
Ballet is considered the foundation of artistic dance. Its meticulous attention to technical detail makes it invaluable for any serious dancer. Combining proper alignment and body placement, seamless transitions through standard arm, leg and feet placements, and astute sense of timing, it trains dancers to be clean and versatile performers.
Pointe
Pointe dancers must be at least a level 5 in ballet and attending a minimum of 3 hours a week of ballet, in addition to pointe classes.
JAZZ
Jazz is a genre of technique focused movement that is fun and very high energy. Jazz dance includes the basic technical skills acquired in ballet classes with a combination of unique rhythms and various stylistic gestures. Jazz is a dance style that including isolation and dynamic changes in the movements. The students will learn how to build muscle strength, gain body flexibility, develop their own movement style and increase their body awareness. Jazz also focuses on clean lines, extensions, turns, jumps and a variety of other tricks.
TAP
Tap dance is a lively art form. It has evolved from many cultures. Tap allows a dancer to express themselves through their feet and many different variations of steps and rhythms. It is a story of the feet.
LYRICAL
Lyrical dance is a beautiful blend of ballet, modern and jazz dance. Students learn the technique of ballet, the rhythms of jazz and the emotions of modern dance. Using diverse music selection dancers create a story or express a mood or theme of the music and its lyrics. Dancers don’t express how they are feeling with voice, but rather, facial expressions and body dynamics. You become the story through dancing.
CONTEMPORARY
Contemporary is a mix of "ballet" (flowing lines and movements) and "modern" (Modern is a form of dance that is used to express how you feel with natural and spontaneous movements that has grown in popularity with the rise of dance shows on tv.
HIP HOP
This is a fast moving and high energy class. It will teach you the newest movements that you see in many music videos and other professional performances.
