HIP HOP
Encompasses a wide range of street styles including breaking, locking and popping. This class for young beginners specifically focuses on developing rhythm and coordination while encouraging individual style.
BALLET
Technique classes are the foundation for training and focus on developing the dancer. Technique with emphasis on understanding correct body placement, proper use of turn out, coordination of the upper body, and use of arms.
TAP
Dancers have the unique opportunity to be musicians and dancers at the same time. Tap class will begin with a set warm up focused on technique, clarity of sound, musicality, and strengthening the mind and body while making music with their feet.
JAZZ
Class combines techniques of classical ballet and modern dance with the current forms of popular dance. Jazz also has its own movement vocabulary ranging from the isolation of certain body parts to the movement of the entire body with the accents of musical rhythms.
PRE BALLET
Classes are a fun-filled introduction to the world of dance. This class is designed to stimulate the child in a whole body approach to learning. While utilizing ballet based vocabulary and creative movement, development of motor skills and emotional expression.
CONTEMPORARY
This class encourages dancers to be versatile in their expressions, being able to portray a wide array of movement styles and emotion. It focuses on spacial and body awareness, use of body weight, floor work, leaps, turns, efficiency of muscle usage, and safe body alignment.
MODERN
Class will incorporate many of the foundations of modern dance technique, including suspension and release, fall and recovery, the use of momentum and connecting breath with movement. Dancers will explore new ways of moving in combinations, floor work and partnering, and also in various methods of improvisation.
POINTE
This class is the part of classical ballet technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet. Pointe work is performed while wearing pointe shoes.
ACTING
In the classes, students learn to build their work from the inside out by asking the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of a character, and learn to seek out the truest expression and life of that person.
