This form of dance teaches the student the basic fundamentals of tap sounds and steps leading to advanced rhythms and syncopation. Students develop coordination of mind and body and a more perceptive sense of rhythm, timing and phrasing.

This popular form of dance incorporates many styles such as theatrical and contemporary. Jazz is the dance style of the stage, screen, and music videos. The classes include a warm-up, isolations, across-the-floor work and technique ending with choreography set to contemporary music.

A high energy, high impact class exploring current styles of movement seen on TV and in music videos. Inspired by the urban hip hop music.

Contemporary dance provokes, expresses, and reflects through movement the point of view of the dancer and/or choreographer. It capitalizes on the universal language of dance by using all types of movements, from stylized to pedestrian. Some “thread elements” visible in contemporary dance include modern, ballet, jazz, gymnastics, and world dance forms. Movement images, ideas, and emotions are set to a variety of sounds, from music to spoken word to the richness of silence. It is dance that crosses frontiers on many levels.

Introduces the three basic skills of musical theatre: acting, singing and dancing. Combines those three skills to produce scenes and musical numbers. Emphasis is placed on following stage directions, developing self-confidence and creating characters for acting. Focus is placed on breath, tone and projection for singing. Also, we begin to understand how to use the body and learn basic movement for dancing.

Boys and Girls will continue the skills learned in the earlier classes and further focus on vault, tumbling (round-offs and back- walk- overs), bars (pull-over and back hip circle), and balance beam. This class continues to teach the fundamentals of gymnastics as well as enhancing self-esteem, coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, form and focus.

Acro 1 - This class serves as an introduction to Acro skills that can be a great asset in a dancer’s training, while enhancing self-esteem, coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, form and focus. Students will fine tune their basic tumbling skills while focusing on their form through weekly strength and flexibility training to ensure injury prevention and technical execution. Students will be introduced to preparation drills for the following skills: front and back walkovers, side aerials, chin stands, shoulder stands. 

Acro 2 & 3 - Acro classes incorporate gymnastic-based tricks with fluidity and flexibility of dance technique. Students work on enhancing self-esteem, coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, form and focus through their weekly strength and flexibility training. Students will build upon their Acro skills through different variations and more complex progressions. The strength and flexibility progressions prepare the students to execute skills, such as: Valdez, Rose Plop, Flip flop variations, Tinsica, front aerials. 

Shuffling started in the 1980’s and is now mainly used to dance to house music. Shuffling consists mostly of two main moves: The running man and the T step, while Cutting Shapes involves more intricate steps! We will be learning moves from both of these styles, and putting them into fun and challenging combinations!

 (Must be enrolled in a second year ballet or jazz; placement approval is needed)

This non-recital dance class is a supplemental class geared toward dancers interested in taking their technique to the next level by working to increase mobility, stability, balance, muscle flexibility, stamina, and overall strength. It will also work on advancing skills for all turns and leap progressions. We want our dancers to focus on all the tender, love, and care their bodies need to succeed when executing the power jumps and turns at the higher level.