Ballet
Classes focus on overall body alignment and awareness with emphasis on proper usage of feet and legs and execution of turnout. Carriage & usage of the upper torso and arms are also emphasized. Traditional barre work, center work, and combinations are included in all classes.
Ballet
Classes focus on overall body alignment and awareness with emphasis on proper usage of feet and legs and execution of turnout. Carriage & usage of the upper torso and arms are also emphasized. Traditional barre work, center work, and combinations are included in all classes.
Tap
Tap focuses on rhythms and intricate footwork, creating a percussion instrument out of the dancer’s feet.
Students are placed by in-class evaluation.
Tap
Tap focuses on rhythms and intricate footwork, creating a percussion instrument out of the dancer’s feet.
Students are placed by in-class evaluation.
Lyrical/Contemporary
Lyrical focuses on music interpretation through sustained extensions and expressive emotion. Lyrical is a type of dance that relies on a direct relationship between the lyrics of various songs/poems and specific dance movements.
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers focus on floor work, using gravity to pull them down to the floor Contemporary dance can be performed in many different styles of music.
Pre-Pointe
Upper-level students take this class with ballet slippers for increased ballet technique and strength and pointe students who are on pointe dance in this class.
Pre-Pointe
Upper-level students take this class with ballet slippers for increased ballet technique and strength and pointe students who are on pointe dance in this class.
Pointe
Pointe is an extension of ballet. It requires solid, consistent, and current ballet training coupled with strength in the legs and the core of the dancer’s body. This upper-level class is available only to those taking two or more weekly ballet classes. **Subject to pre-requisites.
Jazz
Classes teach basic jazz dance technique, terminology, and movement quality with an emphasis on proper execution of jazz isolations, rhythms, and style performed to a wide variety of music.
Jazz
Classes teach basic jazz dance technique, terminology, and movement quality with an emphasis on proper execution of jazz isolations, rhythms, and style performed to a wide variety of music.