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Combination classes are offered at every age and level. This class is designed to balance and diversify a dancer's education. The program divides the class into segments featuring technique and choreography in tap, jazz, ballet and age appropriate hip hop as well as stretching and strengthening the body through acrobatics.
Kids Bop is designed for our younger dancers. It is an introduction to isolations and choreographed hip hop with age appropriate music and form. Our goal is to explore your child's love of music and dance while teaching the fundamentals of rhythm and creative movement.
Our preschool dance program incorporates all styles of movement acrobatics, jazz, hip hop, disco, and dance games. With a focus on fun, our instructor's goal is to make the children more comfortable exploring rhythm and coordination while developing fine and gross motor skills.
Pre-ballet through advanced: Ballet dance is the backbone to all dance disciplines ranging from tap to hip hop. Ballet offers our students an opportunity to learn about core and total body control while working to master classical terminology and placements of the body. Our experienced instructors focus on creating a comfortable environment for all types of dancers while maintaining a traditional study of ballet. Barre and center floor work build a graceful and poised dancer. It is our goal that every dancer builds confidence and wellness of both mind and body.
Lyrical dance is a combination of ballet and jazz. It is a unique merger of both techniques and integrates acting and emotion into a dance. This style interprets the "lyrics" behind the music helping our dancers mature and discover emotion in the art of dance.
Tap offers a percussive way to incorporate rhythm with movement. Through tap dance, students can express their unique style and individuality while mastering coordination and rhythm.
Offers a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet and expresses complex emotions and abstract ideas.
Jazz classes are offered at every level. We emphasize technique, isolations, plies, control, and balance in choreographed combinations. As dancers advance, more challenging turns, leaps, hops, and jumps will be integrated into the floor combinations. This class instills a sense of confidence, maturity, and versatility in our dancers. By taking this class, each student will have learned the basic fundamentals of dance. All dance team members are required to take jazz.
Hip hop is the latest dance craze that has swept the nation! Hip hop originates from African Dance and has evolved into more commonly known styles and disciplines such as break dance, pop and lock, street, funk, club and house dancing. At the heart of modern culture, it is our goal to familiarize our students with this form of dance. With a focus of energy and strength, our highly trained instructors bring confidence and passion to our studio. Their extensive training and unique individual styles bring our dancers an opportunity to experience various forms of hip hop. Our students will emerge as stars on the dance floor! A real confidence builder.
One of the most popular branches of hip hop is break dancing. Beginning with the six-step, our instructors gradually advance to improvisational acrobatics, windmills and eventually head-spins. Students acquire muscular development as well as flexibility and endurance. This class gives our students the ability to enhance their confidence and unique skill in a group setting. Private and semi- private packages available as well.
This class focuses on encouraging boys to gain confidence on the dance floor. This program combines the styles of hip hop, break dance, pop and lock, house, and club dancing. Our male instructors teach the boys how to move with style and personality. This class enhances their rhythm, coordination and balance which will benefit them on and off the dance floor.
Baton twirling is for children ages 7+. It focuses on coordination and developing a child's self-esteem and fine motor skills. Children learn to combine dance movements and twirling into an exciting choreographed routine.
This class offers a way to get exercise and learn one of today's most popular forms of social dancing. Familiarize yourself with current music and dance moves. Our instructors make all adults feel welcome and comfortable. Each instructor helps our adults to feel more confident on the dance floor while experiencing a fantastic workout. No experience is necessary; all levels are welcome.
This class welcomes our adults to the magical world of tap dancing. Each student will be introduced to the basics of the flap, shuffle and their endless combinations. Many adults find that tap dancing helps to enhance their memories and their mind/body connections.
Similar to how the children's classes are run, each class begins with a jazz warm-up focusing on stretching, isolations, plies and across the floor combinations. Adults find their balance and coordination enhanced as well as their over-all mood. This class is taught with a more modern and up-to-date feel so that these moves can be used on any dance floor.
Our acrobatic classes are a combination of dance and tumbling. It is great for dancers, gymnasts and cheerleaders who want to combine their passions. The class opens with a warm-up followed by stretching and skillful mat work. All mat work is accompanied by skillful spotters. In the annual recital this class performs a final routine displaying their developed abilities. Often our acrobats' special skills are incorporated into routines from other classes.
The Dance Academy's competitive division has been competing for 7 years. Our teams have evolved into highly motivated and passionate dancers. Team is designed to perfect the group precision, execution and stage performance. We focus on each individual's technical development as the quintessential source of our dancer's growth. Our elite dancers are fully committed to achieving their personal best as well as pursuing a high level of accomplishment as a team member. Team auditions as well as a minimum of one additional jazz or lyrical class are mandatory for members of the Junior (10-13) and Senior (14+) dance teams.
We have three teams ranging from ages 7 to 18. Our focus is on perfecting a dancer's skill choreographed hip hop. This team is designed for competition settings and requires maximum dedication and commitment. Auditions are required as well as enrollment in one additional hip hop class at The Dance Academy.
