Classes
Creative Movement: An introduction to dance using play, visualization, role playing, and terminology as it appears in human nature rather than utilizing only French ballet terms. Animal acting and fun music create a wonderful learning environment for young dancers to explore dance!
Ballet/Jazz combo classes: These classes are perfect for young dancers who are ready to learn both the discipline of ballet and Jazz dancing. Half of the class is spent learning basic ballet placement and terminology, and half on jazz and technique. The array of music and highlighting of different styles is wonderful to create a well-rounded beginning dancer.
Ballet: Ballet instruction is of the highest quality. This demanding performing art allows dancers to develop their highest level of physical accomplishment, discipline, and artistry. A combination of the Italian and Russian techniques is used to help each dancer achieve strength, flexibility, and the mind/body connection that transfers to excellence in every area of their lives.
Tap: American dance form in which rhythm is sounded out by taps on the heels and toes of the dancer's shoes.
Hip-Hop: Popular urban dance associated with rap music and the styles of inner-city cultures.
Jazz/Lyrical: This form of dance encompasses many varieties and styles, including lyrical and contemporary jazz. Jazz denotes a form of dance that is free, expressive, where most technique is parallel rather than turned out, and upbeat in tempo.
Modern: A contemporary approach to modern dance, this class integrates elements of ballet, body-conditioning, yoga, and release work to create a physicality that is both dynamic and sustainable. Drawing on the Limon and Graham techniques, a focus is placed on propelling movement from the pelvis, torso, and feet. It expresses complex emotions and abstract ideas.
Contemporary: Derived from modern, and post-modern forms, this form of dance utilizes : centering, alignment, gravity, breath, contraction, release, fall and recovery, suspension, balance and off-balance, tension and relaxation, opposition and emotion.
Progressions, turns, and leaps (PTL): Specific training for ballet and jazz using positioning and proper technique to develop the dancer fully in their movements.
Ballet/Jazz combo classes: These classes are perfect for young dancers who are ready to learn both the discipline of ballet and Jazz dancing. Half of the class is spent learning basic ballet placement and terminology, and half on jazz and technique. The array of music and highlighting of different styles is wonderful to create a well-rounded beginning dancer.
Ballet: Ballet instruction is of the highest quality. This demanding performing art allows dancers to develop their highest level of physical accomplishment, discipline, and artistry. A combination of the Italian and Russian techniques is used to help each dancer achieve strength, flexibility, and the mind/body connection that transfers to excellence in every area of their lives.
Tap: American dance form in which rhythm is sounded out by taps on the heels and toes of the dancer's shoes.
Hip-Hop: Popular urban dance associated with rap music and the styles of inner-city cultures.
Jazz/Lyrical: This form of dance encompasses many varieties and styles, including lyrical and contemporary jazz. Jazz denotes a form of dance that is free, expressive, where most technique is parallel rather than turned out, and upbeat in tempo.
Modern: A contemporary approach to modern dance, this class integrates elements of ballet, body-conditioning, yoga, and release work to create a physicality that is both dynamic and sustainable. Drawing on the Limon and Graham techniques, a focus is placed on propelling movement from the pelvis, torso, and feet. It expresses complex emotions and abstract ideas.
Contemporary: Derived from modern, and post-modern forms, this form of dance utilizes : centering, alignment, gravity, breath, contraction, release, fall and recovery, suspension, balance and off-balance, tension and relaxation, opposition and emotion.
Progressions, turns, and leaps (PTL): Specific training for ballet and jazz using positioning and proper technique to develop the dancer fully in their movements.