Class Descriptions

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We offer a variety of dance classes for all ages and abilities, from preschoolers to adults and beginners to professional level students.

You’ll find our classes welcoming and encouraging as we aim to teach through positivity and support, while making learning fun. Click here to view our schedule or take a look at the various dance styles we offer below.

Preschool Dance & Dance Arts

Younger and beginning level dancers take a one-hour class once a week that focuses on blending age-appropriate technique and structure with the joy and exuberance of moving to music. Each of the four subjects provides benefits to young students in making them well rounded dancers and giving them a great foundation of skills as they start their dance journey.

Tap

Develops coordination, balance, and musicality as dancers produce rhythmic sounds with their feet.

Ballet

Introduction to technique promotes grace, creativity, body and spacial awareness; ballet is basic to all other dance forms

Baton

Improves fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and rhythmic movement as students learn to twirl, toss, and march.

Tumbling

Increases strength, flexibility, balance, and large motor skills as students progress from monkey jumps to cartwheels.

Ballet & Pointe

Classical Movement with Beauty and Grace

Students learn the fundamental positions, alignment, and steps in the classic technique of this beautiful dance form. Through exercises at the barre and center floor, dancers build strength, balance, flexibility, stamina, and artistry. This traditional dance form, while challenging, is rewarding and forms the basis for all other dance disciplines. Students who take ballet classes at our studio find confidence, body awareness, and self-discipline as they learn to master increasingly technical moves.

BALLET/JAZZ or JAZZ/TAP – Half hour classes are combined for students ages 8 and older. Dancers can take 2 or 3 half hour classes.

Tap

Get your toes tapping

TAP is an exhilarating dance form interpreting music through sound in the classic style of Broadway and Hollywood. From shuffles and flaps to time steps and pull backs, this course stresses coordination, rhythm, speed, and clarity. Tap dance is ideal for those who want to participate in musical theatre or for adults who have always wanted to give it a try. Mastering tap technique can help with coordination, rhythm, musicality, and agility. Classes are designed to suit your ability and are always fun! Ages 8 and above.

Jazz

Experience the Style and Energy of Jazz

JAZZ is a fun class within a structured framework.  Students learn stylized contemporary dance to popular music. Technique includes isolations, turns, leaps, extensions, progressions, combinations, and routines.  Age 8 and above

Hip Hop

Bust some moves on the floor

HIP HOP is a high energy freestyle dance form seen on today’s popular media.  Students master individual moves before learning to build up to longer routines.  Choreography featuring strong, athletic hip hop styles teach rhythm, coordination, and musicality.  Music, movements, and costumes are age appropriate.  Age 7 and above.

Lyrical

Artistry in Motion

LYRICAL is a fusion of Ballet and Jazz that tells a story of the lyrics or expresses emotion in an interpretation of the music.  Students experience the freedom and creativity of movement in developing its artistry.  Ballet background is a prerequisite.  Age 10 and above.

Acrobatics

Beginner through Advanced

ACROBATICS begins with basic skills (rolls, cartwheels, elbow stands, headstands, handstands, backbends) and progresses to walkovers, front and back handsprings, and aerials.  Students gain strength and flexibility as they merge the worlds of gymnastics and dance with moves that can be safely performed on stage.  Age 7 and above.

Fairy Tale Princesses

Experience the Magic!

Your 3-7 year old can enter the enchanted world of six different princesses. She’ll experience the magic of make believe with costumes, props, stories, music, and dance. Sessions are scheduled seasonally.

Learn More about our Fairy Tale Princesses classes here!

Dance Teams

Junior & Senior Teams

Dancers work together to achieve goals and expand their training and technique. Team members bond over group activities and support one another as they learn leadership roles and develop relationships. They participate in competitions, workshops, and community performances.

Inclusion in the team is by audition. Contact us to find out more.

I LOVE TO DANCE CAMP

Summer Workshop

Summer workshop intensive allows dancers to further their dance training with a variety of dance styles taught, including Musical Theater, Yoga, and Acrobatics as well as Tap, Ballet, Lyrical, and Jazz. Students experience team building exercises and learn choreography with a performance showcase at the conclusion. Junior and Senior level dancers.