Explore the world of movement and music, and develop motor skills and rhythm through movement games, nursery rhymes, and songs! Fun props are used to foster a play based learning environment for your little ones to learn, socialize, and interact in. *Caregiver participation required.
Your preschool dancer’s very first peek at classical ballet! Our unique curriculum teaches and explores body positions, fundamental steps and their French names, developing and refining motor skills, creative movement and games, classical music, and classroom etiquette.
An imaginative class that uses creative methods and props to introduce your beginner dancer to arm and foot positions, body placement and awareness, the separation of barre and center work, foundational steps and their French names, memorization, musicality, and classroom etiquette.
This class is a bridge level between Ballet IA and IB.
Similar to IA/B, building on IA/B, this class is more advanced and age-appropriate.
This curriculum is designed to help young dancers develop, learn, and feel empowered in their dance experience. Classes expand on the beginner syllabus and include more advanced barre and center work, turns, classical ballet repertoire, basic anatomy, and choreography and composition.
Building on Ballet IIA, this class involves a more advanced curriculum.
An expansion on our Beginner and Beginner Intermediate curriculum, these rigorous classes include pre-pointe work, strength training, anatomy, Pilates, refining alignment and footwork, and repertoire.
For advanced level dancers of all ages this is a traditional classical ballet class that includes a complete barre and center. In addition to focusing on technique, placement, strength, and flexibility, dancers are taught about classical musical and musicality, artistic expression, classical repertoire, and professional etiquette.
This class focuses on proper foot alignment and articulation, strength training and stability, maintaining turn-out and core control, as well as education on anatomy and foot care. Students ready for pointe shoes will learn about the pointe shoe fitting process, as well as how to sew, tie, and take care of their shoes.
Dancers must take a minimum of two ballet classes per week and be a minimum age of 10 to be eligible.
For students in their first two years of pointe work. This class continues to build strength and stability, while introducing pointe exercises at the barre. Strong emphasis on correct use of foot and refining technique as well as introduction of cross-training exercises will help students feel confident on pointe.
For students who have trained a minimum of two years en pointe, upon the recommendation of a teacher. Dancers must take a minimum of two ballet classes per week to be eligible for pointe.
These classes focus on strengthening and refining technique, complex footwork, center work, turns, and classical variations and repertoire. Cross-training for strength and stability is taught and encouraged outside of the studio.
Our Jazz and Modern program is segmented into four-week modules, alternating monthly between Jazz and Modern technique. Our classical jazz syllabus is a blend of Fosse and Giordano techniques and our modern dance syllabus is founded in Lester Horton and Martha Graham techniques. This creative class also focus on cultivating improvisation skills.
Building on the technical foundations, this class includes more advanced techniques in the fundamentals of turns, combinations across the floor, and leaps and jumps. Classes include a balance of floor and standing work, cultivating core strength, combinations across the floor, repertoire, floor work, and improvisation.
This class will focus on teaching the fundamentals of tap as well as musicality and improvisation. We will also be taking the time to teach tap history as a social dance of African American origin and its ever-changing performance aspects.
This class will build on the fundamentals of tap to learn more classic repertoire and embrace more rigorous improvisation. We will dive deeper into tap history as a social dance of African American origin and its contemporary performance aspects.
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