Dance Classes Offered
Creative Movement: Ages 3 - 5
This class introduces young children to the world of movement, music, and creative fun. Students will explore ballet stretches, rhythm and coordination exercises, easy ballet steps, and creative moves.
Ballet: Ages 6 - 18
Early ballet classes are essential to building the foundation for a well trained dancer. It is important to develop key fundamentals such as coordination, musicality, body awareness and flexibility at a young age. Learning discipline at a young age is a good thing. Our training is age appropriate and our students learn how to focus in small doses so that by the time they join the older classes, they are fully prepared to excel in higher level skills.
Many people think that our ballet school is very tough and only for children who want to be professional dancers...
Children at our dance school are taught by professionally trained teachers. Most local dance schools cannot make this claim. Our goal is to show children that it is fun to work hard and to be focused and to have discipline. These traits will work well in life for our students, regardless of what they want to be when they grow up. Our school has produced students who go on to be doctors, veterinarians, bio-chemical engineers and ophthalmologists, in addition to professional dancers. Life lessons, time management and great thinking skills learned at our school have allowed these former students to be successful in whichever career they choose.
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Jazz
Pre-Jazz: Ages 4 -5: This class introduces young children to music, rhythm and movement. They will learn basic stretches, balance and coordination skills through fun combinations and routines.
Beginner Jazz: Ages 6 - 8: These levels focus on stretching, footwork, patterns and learning to move as well as developing their jazz vocabulary. Students will explore lots of jumps, kicks, turns and fun combinations as they develop more complicated dance skills.
Jazz: Ages 9+: These levels will allow students to explore lots of difficult turns and jumps in the jazz technique as well as learning body positions and correct alignment. They will also learn about the history and many styles of jazz and explore how to choreograph their own dances.
Tap
Pre-Tap: Ages 4 - 5: This class teaches children that tap is making music with your feet. Students will learn basic rhythm and coordination skills, easy tap steps and fun little combinations and dances.
Beginner Tap: Ages 4 - 8: These levels focus on more footwork, patterns and sounds as well as developing their tap vocabulary. Students will explore more complicated rhythms along with jumps and turns associated with tap.
Tap: Ages 9+: These levels will allow students to truly explore all of the complicated rhythms and advanced footwork of tap. They will continue to learn more jumps and turns to accompany their tap skills as well. Students will learn about how to choreograph and the history of tap with the many different styles it offers.