Class Descriptions

Ballet

Ballet is the cornerstone of all dance styles. Classes focus on barre work, center exercises and movement combinations. Dancers must have a solid grounding in ballet if they are interested in dance as a career or wish to audition for any performing arts specialty school. Students will learn technique and placement, while emphasizing musicality.

For Children Boys Ballet, Level I, II, III and Conservatory Level Ballet is offered. Auditions for placement are required for Ballet II, III and Conservatory Levels. Girls must have taken at least two to three years of ballet classes or be at least twelve years of age before going en Pointe.

Adult Ballet

These classes are designed to be suitable for all levels of teens and adults and will serve students in whatever capacity they intend for themselves. We offer beginner and open level classes.

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Belly Dance

This program provides students with a foundation of belly dance movements to improve body coordination, grace, sensuality, posture, and self confidence. Students will learn to dance in rhythm, develop self expression and perform for an audience. And the class is designed to be so much fun!
Limited to 25 per class.

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Gymnastics

Tumbling

Tumbling serves as physical and conceptual prerequisite for more advanced gymnastic skills. This class helps students gain strength and flexibility while safely focusing on the three fundamental tumbling skills: balance and support, rotations, and springing and landing.

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Hip Hop

Popping

Popping is a style of hip-hop dance and one of the original funk styles that came out of the West coast in the 1970s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a shock in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or hit. Popping is also used as an umbrella term to refer to a group of closely related illusionary dance styles and techniques that are often integrated with popping to create a more varied performance. You will learn dime stopping, robot, ticking, animation, hitting, waving and character development in this class.

Jazz/Hip-Hop

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International Summer Workshop

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Jazz

Jazz introduces students to syncopated rhythms, body isolations, and a repertoire of standard moves. Jazz has roots in Ballet and Modern, but also draws on the body isolations, rhythms and techniques of African dance. Along with Ballet and Modern, Jazz is crucial to the foundation of a career in dance.

Latin Jazz

This class is a fusion of movements and rhythms from across Latin America, combined with the techniques of jazz and the skills of ballet. The class begins with a warm-up in that will work the entire body through isolations, stretching, and elongation, and will build strength, flexibility and coordination. Next we work with sequences that help the dancer respond to different rhythms, and finally go into "the diagonal zone," where we apply and reaffirm what we've learned about musicality, space, timing, and projection of movement. No previous dance training required.

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Modern

Modern dance builds on the foundation of ballet, with less emphasis placed turn-out and verticality and more work with lateral and off center torso movements and openness to emotional interpretation and expression. Classes cover movement combinations, center exercises, and elements of floor work, while exploring the relationship of the body to gravity and space. Students gain strength, flexibility and coordination.

Modern Horton

This class will focus on the Lester Horton technique of modern dance. This technique emphasizes a whole body approach to dance that includes flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness to enable unrestricted freedom of expression. Its linear lines are visually recognizable, but still physically challenging. This technique was developed in the 30's and 40's by Lester Horton, and is still taught today as a foundation of modern dance.

Afro Modern

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Move with Me

In this class children can discover the excitement of dance as well as share a special time between parent or caretaker and child. Children will sing, play games, stretch, and increase self-confidence while being introduced to basic dance concepts with the security of a caretaker. Move with Me will allow your child to explore the concepts of creative dance through playful activities designed to help your child learn and grow.

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Pre-Ballet

Pre-ballet is an introduction to ballet, using methods designed for young minds and bodies. Students begin to work on body alignment and posture as well as development of the feet and turnout. The class introduces fundamental skills and concepts of dance movement and ballet. Students learn flexibility, body awareness and musicality through exercises and imaginative play.

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Special Workshops

To be announced

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