Class Descriptions
All ages listed are suggestions. Class placement is made at the discretion of the instructor.
Creative Movement – Ages 0 -2
This class allows young children to learn basic skills to help strengthen their physical development, social skills, and coordination. This class is designed to help children develop gross motor skills, muscle control, and balance while integrating expression through rhythmical patterns and props.
Pre K – Ages 3 – 4
Sharing this positive experience with their peers, students gain an understanding of teamwork that positively benefits and influences their everyday lives. This class allows young children to learn basic dance skills to help with their physical development, social skills, coordination, and impulse control. Song, basic dance steps, and tumbling are used to help engage students’ attention and imagination.
Combo Class – Ages 5 – 7
This class is comprised of three half hour sessions to provide basic skills in Ballet, Acro, and Tap. In this class, the dancers will continue to explore the different styles of dance. Working on basic ballet positions and terminology, basic acro skills, and tap technique.
Kinder Pop – Ages 5 – 7
Classes are designed to further develop your child’s natural love for movement and music. Students will learn body control, and emphasis is placed on discipline, strength and flexibility. A winning combination of fun and technique is applied when teaching the basic elements of Hip Hop, Jazz and Acrobatics to our young dancers.
Ballet and Pointe
Ballet and Pointe class combines grace, line and beauty to provide the technical foundation for all dance forms. Ballet class is structured by the introduction and progressions of ballet, by emphasizing terminology, and technique while incorporating speed, attack, and rhythm. Ballet is the basic foundation of all dance forms and will improve strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Ballet is strongly recommended for all dancers to take in addition to other techniques. Pointe class is offered to advanced students that are recommended by an instructor.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Acrobatics
Acrobatics (Acro) class teaches floor gymnastics which can be incorporated into dance. Acro dance emphasizes smooth and graceful transitions from dancing to each acrobatic move. Acrobatics class is designed to help students enhance their balance, agility, and motor coordination. Students will learn tricks including tumbling, flexibility and partnering skills. Tumbling class focuses on the aerial and tumbling aspect of Acrobatics such as learning back handspring, aerials and much more. Attention is paid to each student’s own abilities. This class is a great way for both boys and girls to maintain strength conditioning and flexibility as it pertains to the needs of other dance styles.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Flexibility
This class will enhance your overall mobility and provide a deeper understanding of your muscles and how they are involved in different key stretches. This is comprehensive flexibility training with a focus toward preventing injury while working toward each individual’s flexibility goals, making this class suitable for all ages and backgrounds.
This class covers everything from regular warm up routines, to specific training for achieving proper form in moves such as backbend, splits, and needle, to whole body mobility sequences. The benefits of stretching are endless: It helps in injury prevention, better muscle coordination, improved posture, enhanced sports performance, and increased range of motion.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Hip Hop
Hip Hop Class mixes Free Style and Street Dance styles to create fun and freestyle movement. This high energy class is a combination of an invigorating warm-up and strengthening exercises, dancers will be encouraged to freestyle, using their own creativity and style taught to them making this class a favorite for all ages.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Jazz
Jazz Class incorporates the elements of Ballet, Hip Hop and Lyrical dance set to popular music and includes stretches, isolations, turns, jumps, leaps and choreographed combinations as well as the development of style. Traditional styles and current pop-cultural trends blend in an exciting and energizing class atmosphere. Classes begin with an intense warm-up based including isolations, strengthening exercises, and stretches. The class progresses with across the floor skills and combination phrases that incorporate expression, athleticism, personality, and style.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Lyrical / Contemporary
Lyrical is a style of Jazz that has been fused with Ballet and encourages artistic expression and emotional content while building grace and fluidity. Contemporary capitalizes on the universal language of dance techniques and methods found in ballet, modern, postmodern dance, and others. The movement is more internal, showing the dancer’s strength, control, and diverse quality of movements.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Tap
Tap blends coordination and rhythm foot patterns into a fun and timeless dance form. Warm-up, across floor skills, and movement combinations are built for increased coordination, clarity of sound, and rhythm.
- Beginner / Moderate / Advanced / Adult ( Recreational )
Not Your Average Wedding Dance
Blow your guest away with an exciting, unexpected dance at your wedding. Have us choreograph your non-traditional wedding dance or let us add on after as a “surprise dance”. Dances could be just the married couple or the whole bridal party. Let your wedding be the talk of the town, and let your memories last forever! Please contact the studio for further details.
Latin Fusion
Latin Fusion is a fun flavor of different latin dances. Focused on bachata and salsa with some technique from other latin dances, beginner’s through intermediate get the chance to learn the footwork, arm techniques, and different body isolation movements that with your own unique style, the upbeat latin rhythm within you will come alive!
Zumba
Ever wanted to smile while working out? Zumba is your go-to! Be ready to get sweaty, thirsty, and most of all… have fun while you work out! These easy to learn dances include special moves that are guaranteed to get your heart pumping and those happy feet constantly moving to playlists you can’t help but to dance to!
