Creative Movement: 3-4 years

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: 4.5-6 years

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.

Ballet: 8-18 years

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.

Hip Hop: 8-18 years

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.

Jazz: 8-18 years

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.

Tap:8-18 years

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.

Lyrical/Contemporary:8-18 years

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.

Contemporary: 12-18 years*

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.

Strength & Conditioning: 10-AD years

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.