Class Descriptions

Dancers will learn movement, coordination, and spatial awareness. They will spend time at the ballet barre and in the center of the room learning the positions of the arms and feet, as well as, leaning basic ballet steps. Tap is a type of dance by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. The two styles of dance will be combined into one class.

Hip Hop

Hip Hop dance to street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music which include a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping and improvisational dance.

Jazz

Jazz dance combines techniques of classical ballet and modern dance with the current forms of popular dace. Jazz has its own movement vocabulary ranging from the isolation of certain boy parts to the movement of the entire body with the accents of musical rhtyms.

Hip Hop/Jazz

Combination of Hip hop and jazz fused together.

Lyrical

A Fusion of ballet and jazz with expressive motions that tell a story.

Contemporary

Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dancer genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet.

Gymnastics 1

Beginner class that teaches the basic fundamentals of tumbling. Students will work on basic progressions: forward rolls, backward rolls, handstands, cart-wheels, and round-offs.

Gymnastics 2

Students must be able to do a backbend to enroll in this class. Gymnastics 1 skills must be mastered to move on to level 2. Skills in this class are front walkovers, back walkovers, multiple cartwheels, two-step entry into round-off, and back handsprings, ariels.