Class Descriptions & Required Attire
ACRO & Tumbling
ACRO combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements (Tumbling). It is defined by its athletic character - its unique choreography - which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics.
Tumbling is a form of gymnastics performed without props or equipment. Students will build strength and flexibility as they develop their tumbling skills. We offer classes for a variety of skill levels. As students progress they will learn tricks such as somersaults, handstands, tucks, back bends, handsprings, flips, passes, aerials, and much more.
Required attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Longer length shorts or leggings
Tank style unitard (optional)
Bare feet
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfortable athletic clothing
Bare feet
These videos are an example of some of the skills students can learn in tumbling class. Our students will be dressed more modestly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ic7RNS4Dfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BDZLRkCHu4
Combo Classes: Creative/Tumbling
Our Creative/Tumbling combination classes are designed to help students discover the wonder of creative movement, dance technique, and tumbling skills. Each class will be divided to allow time for both dancing and tumbling. Students will learn basic tumbling skills and dance technique through the use of props, imagery, and guided creative activities.
Required attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Pink footless tights
Skirt, Longer length shorts, or leggings are optional
Bare feet or pink ballet shoes
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfortable athletic clothing
Bare feet
Combo Classes: Jazz/Ballet/Tumbling
Our Jazz/Ballet/Tumbling combination classes are designed to help students discover the wonder of movement through dance technique, and tumbling skills. Each class will be divided to allow time for both dancing and tumbling. Students will learn basic jazz, ballet, and tumbling skills.
Required attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Pink footless tights
Skirt, Longer length shorts, or leggings are optional
Pink ballet shoes
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfortable athletic clothing
Bare feet
Infant and Toddler Classes
Our Parent & Me and Twirl & Tumble movement classes are designed especially for little ones that love to wiggle! These classes are the perfect introduction to dance and tumbling, enhancing abilities such as following directions, taking turns, body and spatial awareness, rhythm, movement patterns and physical coordination.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Skirts, shorts or leggings are suggested
Ballet shoes are optional
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and bare feet
Adaptive Dance Classes
Our Adaptive Dance Program offers our special needs students a place to learn, express themselves, share their abilities, and socialize. This program offers ballet, jazz, and lyrical classes. These classes are taught by Miss Brittany with the help of her wonderful and loving assistants.
Adaptive dance classes are completely free for special needs students. If you wish to donate to or sponsor this program please contact Jamie Adams.
Ballet
Ballet is an artistic form of dance that uses precise and technical steps and gestures. It is graceful and elegant. It can tell a story or express an emotion and can be magical, exciting, provoking and beautiful.
We offer beginning through advanced level ballet classes to fit a wide range of skill development.. Students will learn ballet technique, barre work, center floor, across the floor and ballet combinations.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Pink tights
Pink ballet shoes
Skirts are optional
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing or mens tights, skin colored ballet shoes (ballet pink or natural skin color)
Ballroom
Ballroom dancing is a style of partnership dancing where couples move rhythmically across the floor. It consists of two styles: Standard Ballroom and Latin Ballroom. Students will learn a variety of ballroom dances and techniques such as the waltz, cha-cha, swing, and tango, and more. These are beginning ballroom classes.
Required Attire for FEMALE students:
Short sleeve black leotard
Black knee length skirt
Tan character or ballroom shoes
Tan tights
Required Attire for MALE students:
Black pants
Black dress shoes
Dress shirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4la97AmXx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qKIW2dDtDw
Breakdance
Breakdance is an energized form of dance that includes stylized footwork and athletic moves such as spinning on the knees, hands, or head. It mainly consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Black athletic shoes with white soles
Leggings or athletic pants should also be worn
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing
Black athletic shoes w/ white soles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgoTq-aqsH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kBVnua8So8
Contemporary
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. It is more relaxed and free style where the choreography uses emotions and music to dictate the dancers movement.
Required attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Bare feet, tan dance socks(optional), or lyrical shoes (optional)
Tan footless tights
Leggings or skirt is optional
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and bare feet, tan dance socks(optional), or lyrical shoes (optional)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHV3ICc_5uU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dapqmXG6y0M
Creative Movement
Creative Dance blends movement, music, improvisation, and basic dance steps while providing an excellent introduction for the future study of all dance techniques. Students learn dance fundamentals while improving motor skills, self-expression, confidence, imagination and social development.
Required Attire:
Short sleeve black leotard
Bare feet, tan dance socks(optional), or lyrical shoes (optional)
Tan footless tights
Leggings or skirt
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and bare feet, tan dance socks(optional), or lyrical shoes (optional)
Hip Hop
Hip hop is a fun, upbeat, rhythmic, and energetic style dance. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking and popping.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Black athletic shoes with white soles
Leggings or athletic pants should also be worn
Required Attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing
Black athletic shoes w/ white soles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FywXpQu3og&list=PL39ZoK-v-gCkT4aWzmi8Xk8Q6edVD38jO&index=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91aLxCQuTn4
Jazz
Jazz dance is a performance dance technique and style. Jazz dance may refer to Broadway or theatrical jazz. It consists of unique and stylized moves, multiple turns, and big leaps.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Black capri leggings
Tan jazz shoes
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and black jazz shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8DeYT_JQug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9snc8Y4oM
Leaps & Turns Technique
This is a technique class designed to help students in focusing on jumps, turns and leaps. The technique taught in this class will help dancers perform better in other genres of dance such as Jazz, Ballet, Lyrical, and Hip Hop. We strongly suggest this class be taken concurrently with one of the previously mentioned classes. This class is an exciting way to challenge yourself as you learn new tricks and turn control.
This is not a performing class.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard (female students)
Leggings or athletic pants
favorite dance shoes or bare feet
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and favorite dance shoes
Lyrical
Lyrical dance is a dance style that embodies various aspects of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance. The style is usually danced at a faster pace than ballet but not as fast as jazz. It is a very passionate and emotional style of dance where the dancer is trying to portray a certain feeling or story.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
White (thick) tank leotard
Lyrical shoes
Tan footless tights
Leggings or skirt is optional
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and bare feet, tan dance socks(optional), or lyrical shoes (optional)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZd9YW6V6Y
Musical Theater
Musical Theater is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. Musical theater is a wonderful way to strengthen improvisation, memory and social awareness skills. Students will study the work of the actor/singer/dancer and use their gained knowledge to develop as performers. Students will prepare and present as soloists as well as members of small groups and larger ensembles.
Performing Dance Company
Our studio has multiple performing dance companies. If your student just can’t stop dancing this opportunity is what they need!
As company members, dancers have the opportunity to perform at many local events, attend special workshops, and participate in traveling performance tours. These are not competition teams. These companies are assigned by audition only.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Leggings
Tan Jazz shoes
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and black jazz shoes
Pre-Pointe
This Pre-Pointe conditioning class is for students who are enrolled in Ballet 4 or 5 and are ready to prepare for Pointe shoes. Students will further develop and strengthen the muscles necessary to go on pointe.
Required Attire:
Short sleeve black leotard
Pink tights
Pink ballet shoes
Skirts are optional
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and ballet shoes
Stretch & Strengthen
The purpose of dance conditioning is to develop physical endurance, strength, flexibility and coordination. Our class focuses on toning, strengthening and stretching different parts of the body to help our students reach their personal goals.
This is not a performing class
Required Attire:
Short sleeve black leotard (female students)
Leggings or athletic pants
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC755qKqTqg
Tap
Tap is a unique style of dance involving specific and rapid footwork. Tap dance is characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. The sound is made by shoes that have a metal "tap" on the heel and toe.
Required Attire for FEMALE STUDENTS:
Short sleeve black leotard
Black tap shoes
Tan tights
Skirt is optional
Required attire for MALE STUDENTS:
Comfy athletic clothing and black tap shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9suXpRaYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9suXpRaYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUw8umdvSoM