Class Descriptions

An open level class welcoming beginners, experienced and restarters alike. Dancers will be lead through warm up, barre work, center and traveling work and a cool down. This is an inclusive class and students will be trained considering safe movement, modified for individual needs. Goals of class include improved strength and mobility using classical ballet techniques in a welcoming and fun environment. Class punch cards are available to offer flexibility and access to dance for busy adults.

Classes will include warm up with breathwork, yoga and calisthenic techniques followed by strengthening and mobility work designed to support dancers training in classical techniques. Class goals include increasing awareness of posture and alignment both in and out of class and improving the mind to muscle connection that allows dancers to reconceptualize their movement through space. Dancers should leave this class with improved strength, mobility and technique as well as improved self regulation which is vital to confidence, well-being and learning. Class will close with a brief meditation to encourage mindfulness outside the studio.

Class focuses on musicality and interpersonal synchronization using basics from multiple techniques including Tap, Jazz, Swing, Latin, Kick-line, Drill and even Line Dancing. Dancers will focus on counting and coordinating their movements to the music and to their fellow dancers. Dancers will be expected to practice homework steps at home so they can focus on formations and timing in class. This type of coordinated team dancing lends to lively progressive routines that are fun to watch and to dance.

The class includes a variety of dances, including Swing, Waltz, Cha Cha, Samba, Foxtrot, Rumba and more! All levels/ages are welcome and it is not necessary to sign up with a dance partner. We will focus on social dancing, to get you ready for the dance floor, and will also learn international styles and routines. Bronze level figures will be taught and reviewed week to week, with a strong emphasis on technique, dance position, and rhythm.

Class encourages free expression, while teaching basic elements of dance, including rhythm, movement quality, space, body awareness and shape. The child's imagination and self-esteem are encouraged and strengthened through dance.

Combination classes introduce students to the fundamentals of different styles over the course of the hour. Ballet/Tap-Hip Hop/Jazz teaches the technique of all given styles. These classes are a great precursor to our hour long classes your dancer will start at the age of 8yrs.

Beauty, flow and elegance are inherent in the elements of ballet. Ballet is the classical dance form that can be mastered by itself or used as a technical base or supplement to other dance forms. Classes focus on overall body alignment and awareness with emphasis on proper usage of feet and legs and execution of turnout. Carriage and usage of upper torso and arms are also stressed. Traditional barre work, center work and combinations are included in all classes. As students progress through each class, curriculum will become increasingly more complex and intricate.

A high-energy class that uses the latest sounds in rap, R&B and pop music together with movements influenced by some of today's hottest video choreographers. Hip hop encompasses movement that has elements of poppin', locking, and breaking as well as freestyle movement to give students the opportunity to develop their own sense of style. Hip hop is urban, it's street, it's diverse and forever changing.

An exciting and ever evolving dance form full of rhythm, syncopation, passion and life. Steeped in the rhythm of jazz music, a true American art form, jazz dance brings energy and life to all those who dance it. Classes explore body isolations of the head, shoulders, rib cage, feet and arms and encourage individual expression and the development of personal style. Jazz can be powerful and percussive or expressive and lyrical. Ever evolving, jazz dance is taught with the music of today together with the classical jazz of yesterday. Classes teach basic jazz dance technique, terminology and movement quality with an emphasis on proper execution of jazz isolations, rhythms and style performed to contemporary music.

Classes emphasize the development and strengthening of basic tap technique and terminology highlighting the importance of rhythm and sound. Tap focuses on rhythms and intricate footwork, creating a percussion instrument out of the dancer's feet. Just like jazz vocalists who add rhythms to music by scatting, tappers add their voice by "scatting" with their feet. Rhythm tap tends to be a heavier or harder-hitting form of tap than Broadway tap, and sounds are made not only with the bottom of the shoe, but also with the back, sides, and tip. Rhythm tap is a broad category that encompasses the hoofing styles of current stars such as Savion Glover and the late Gregory Hines and past masters such as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Jimmy Slyde.

This class gives students the opportunity to experience lyrical dance, which combines techniques and skills from ballet, jazz and modern. Students will also explore how lyrical dance emphasizes interpretation of music lyrics to tell a story with movement that can be fluid or abstract.

Although originally informed by and borrowing from classical, modern, and jazz styles, it has since come to incorporate elements from many styles of dance. Due to its technical similarities, it is often perceived to be closely related to modern dance, ballet and other classical concert dance styles. In terms of the focus of its technique, contemporary dance tends to combine the strong and controlled legwork of ballet with modern dance's stress on the torso, and also employs contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristic of modern dance. Ballet enrollment required.

Combining strength training alongside flexibility while incorporating high intensity cardio allows dancers to enhance their skills while cross-training. Building endurance through cardio while simultaneously strengthening muscles helps to execute floor-work and movement in other classes. This class will benefit the dancer at any level.