Dance Classes Offered
Creative Movement: Ages 2 - 5
MOMMY AND ME (AGE 2)- This is a great activity for toddlers & their Mom, Dad or anyone special to do together. Children get to play while they're learning important first skills. And Mom and Dad have fun, too!
PRESCHOOL CLASSES (Ages 3-5) - These classes introduce 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. Parents might catch a glimpse of Little Red Riding Hood in her fancy red cape skipping down the path or Belle all dressed up in her beautiful yellow gown waltzing in the ballroom .
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. 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 the higher skill levels. Our school has ten levels of ballet.
Children at our dance school are taught by professionally trained teachers. That doesn't mean that we want all of our students to be professionals. Rather, it means that our staff is better qualified to train dance correctly. 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.
Jazz
Beginner Jazz: Kindergarten - 2nd grade: These levels introduce young children to rhythm and movement while dancing to fun upbeat music. They will learn basic stretches, balance and coordination skills through creative combinations and routines.
Adv Beg Jazz: Ages 8 - 10: 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 and learn the basics of choreographing a jazz combination.
Intermediate and Advanced Jazz: Ages 11-18: These levels will allow students to explore lots of difficult turns and jumps in the several different jazz techniques as well as learning body positions and correct alignment. They will also learn about the history and many styles of jazz and explore further 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 have fun learning basic rhythm and coordination skills, easy tap steps and fun little combinations and cute dances to show off to their parents.
Beginner and Advanced Beginner Tap: Ages 6 - 10: 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.
Intermediate and Advanced Tap: Ages 11-18: These levels will allow students to truly explore all of the complicated rhythms and advanced footwork of tap. They will continue to learn more complicated 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.