Classes

This class focuses on teaching the basic and fundamentals to students of the appropriate age and capacity.  An introduction to ballet basics using methods designed for young imaginative minds and bodies. Students are given the opportunity to move, stretch, and improve self-confidence while being introduced to basic ballet concepts, body alignment, posture, locomotor skills, using a variety of props or visuals to develop self-expression through creative movement. 

Classical ballet is our base for dance technique. In this class students will work on body placement, correct alignment and posture. Beginning with a complete barre followed by center adagio. Moving forward with across the floor, pirouette work. Dancers will focus on all muscle groups necessary to execute movement correct. Stretching and strengthening is an important aspect that needs to be worked daily. Continuing with medium, grand allegro to finish up we close class with  reverence. Overall dancers will develop fluidity, grace in movement and overall expression. 

This class is guided toward the fundamentals of jazz dance, Where we would like to preserve the importance of classical jazz dance as well as all the important technical aspects of it. At this particular level students will also be learning and executing more complex dance techniques. We will be working on a few different styles of dance through the year. The class will consist of warm-up, stretching and strengthening, across the floor progressions, leaps and turns and center floor combination and choreography. 

Learn the basics or enhance work on advancing your skills in acro class! This class is not a gymnastics class. Our acro teachers will guide the class towards increased flexibility, balance, strength, muscle control, discipline and concentration. and injury prevention. This class will focus on fundamental acrobatic technique, teaching such skills as handstands, chin stands, elbow stands, cartwheels, back bends, walkovers, balance and contortion tricks, all each student's individual level of experience. Higher level dancers will continue with tumbling and tricks such as aerielas, back handsprings and more. Our acro dance teachers are certified with an extensive curriculum for acro technique. 

Class begins with a warm up followed by across the floor exercises that focus on breathing, energy and connections. In this class dancers will work with a combined dance curriculum from modern, jazz and acro in addition to floor work. At times we often use improvisation, body awareness, and exploring the different levels and spaces, dynamic movements. Musicality, expression of emotion and movement through space. Always working on finding innovations and creating new forms in movement in a comfortable learning environment. Prerequisite for this class is a minimum of 2 year of consecutive dance experience and 8 years or older of age.

In this class dancers develop musicality, creativity, listening skills and coordination. Beginning wiith a warm up, students will be moving into across the floor exercises. Followed by center groove combinations. Dancers will be working on retention and choreography throughout the season.  This non-stop, action-packed class includes footwork, radical movement and emphasis placed on musicality. Freestyle (improvise) is still very important with every style of Hip Hop.

This class focuses  on teaching the basics and fundamentals to students of the appropriate age and technical capacity. Because of the risk of injury, students must be physically prepared to begin point. A year requires full pre-pointe dancing and a pointe assessment evaluation before ascending to the top class. Pointe assessment allows teachers and students the opportunity to see where the student needs to work in order to prepare for pointe. The evaluation focuses on the legs (alignment and strength), feet (flexibility, strength, alignment and shape),

ankles (strength), and overall body

alignment in pointe class. We will be continuing our classical ballet technique training.