Pre-School

Our Preschool program focuses on body part identification, free expression, and spatial awareness. This is a wonderful introduction to all of the dance forms and includes movement and rhythm games done to inspiring music.

Pre-Ballet

Pre-Ballet dancers will begin learning ballet terminology, basic motor movement patterns while gaining strength and flexibility along with balance, coordination, and grace. Barre work is introduced and developed in these young dancers.

Ballet

Ballet students are exposed to a syllabus unique to our school, which embodies elements from Cecchetti, Russian, Bournonville, and Balanchine styles.

Cecchetti Ballet

Cecchetti Ballet is recommended for all experienced ballet students age 9 and Up committed to ballet class at least 2 times a week. Students must be in Children’s Intermediate Level for Grade 1. This training is based on the method developed by Cav. Enrico Cecchetti, renowned dancer and foremost teacher of the artists of the Imperial Russian Ballet and Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Graded levels with appropriate examinations offered by the Cecchetti Council of America provide stimulus to the progress of the serious student.

Ballet Variations

Ballet Variations of well known Classical Ballets such as Coppelia, Giselle, La Bayadere, La Sylphide, Nutcracker, or Swan Lake are taught in our most advanced levels of ballet.

Tap

Tap is a form of dance characterized by using ones shoes, as well as the floor, as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a musical form as well. Two major variations on tap dance exist, rhythm (Jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the dance side, and is widely performed as a part of musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses instead on the musical side, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the Jazz tradition. Dancers must work together to create the sound keeping their steps at the correct speed to match each other.

Jazz

Jazz has become one of the most popular dance styles in recent years. Jazz is energetic and fun, consisting of unique moves. To truly excel in jazz, dancers need a strong background in ballet.

Hip Hop

Hip Hop is a free style dance form based on jazz movements and also incorporates hip-hop rhythms. This form of dance came about from and is influenced by today’s music and culture.

Contemporary/Lyrical/Modern/Fusion

These styles of dance are created from the fusion of ballet with jazz to create new and unique forms of movement and expression without the confined steps required in ballet and jazz.

Musical Theater

Musical Theater jazz classes are energy filled and will help to improve dance, technique, strength and style for a great showing in your school musical or just plain fun! We can’t wait to share our Musical Theater knowledge with you!

Celtic 

Celtic Irish Dance refers to a group of traditional dance forms originating from Ireland.  Irish stepdances fall into two broad categories based on the shoes worn: and ‘soft shoe‘ (or light shoe) dances and ‘hard shoe‘ (or heavy shoe).

There are four soft shoe dance styles: the reel, slip jig, light jig and ‘single jig’ (also referred to as ‘hop jig’).  Hard shoe dances include the hornpipe, the treble jig (also called the ‘heavy jig’ or ‘double jig’), the treble reel (hard shoe dance done to reel music) and ‘traditional sets’, which are a group of dances with set music and steps. While theoretically standardized, different organizations recognize different traditional sets and slight variations exist between teachers. There are also “non-traditional sets” done by advanced dancers. These have set music, but not steps; the steps are choreographed by individual dance schools.

Acro

Acro class combines skills of both dance and gymnastics.  Classes focus on developing strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and proper technique for gymnastic tricks associated with dance.  Dancers study acrobatic techniques and explore how these techniques, such as aerials, can be applied to other forms of dance.  Acro is so fun and empowering for dancers!